Antique Paleontology Print of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh, 1886
€ 450
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1886
Sheet size
29 × 42.5 cm (11.4 × 16.7 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-12800-1-56
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.
Condition
General age-related toning, original folding line. Minor wear and foxing. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
The skeleton of Dinoceras mirabile, an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal, an original lithograph from volume 10 of Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Othniel Charles Marsh's Dinocerata, published in 1886. The plate is printed in black on a large sheet, with the title "Dinoceras mirabile, Marsh" lettered beneath the figure and a plate number at the upper right.
The skeleton is drawn in side view, facing left. The broad, flat skull with its bony horns is carried low, the rib cage is drawn in outline with the individual ribs clearly separated, and the limbs end in short, broad feet. A faint ghost outline of the animal's body can be seen behind the bones. The draughtsman's name appears at the lower left and the lithographer's credit, New Haven, at the lower right.
Marsh was professor of paleontology at Yale, and Dinoceras belongs to the group of large Eocene mammals that he described from the western United States.
