Set of 5 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'

1886 · Birds, Plants & Natural History

Set of 5 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'

Name: Set of 5 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-12800-1-2 +4
Price: 615 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1886
Kind: Birds, Plants & Natural History
Size: 29 × 23 cm (11.4 × 9.1 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and foxing, please study images carefully. The largest print has an original folding line and measures 41 x 29 cm.
Period: The Gilded Age
Reference: BG-12800-1-2 +4

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

A set of five original lithograph plates showing the skull of Dinoceras mirabile, an extinct herbivorous mammal, from Othniel Charles Marsh's monograph on the Dinocerata, volume 10 of the Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, published in 1886. The plates are printed in gray-black on cream paper, and each is lettered "Dinoceras mirabile, Marsh" below the image.

The group presents the skull from several directions: a side view with the long tusk-like canine and the row of cheek teeth, a view from above, a view of the underside showing the palate, a front view with the two canines and the heavy bony protuberances of the head, and a large folded plate of the skull in profile. The great horn-like prominences of the skull, which gave the Dinocerata their reputation, are rendered in soft graduated shading.

The lithographer, E. Crisand of New Haven, is named at the lower right of the plates. Marsh's monograph is regarded as one of the most impressive illustrated works of American nineteenth-century paleontology.

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