Set of 2 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh, 1886
€ 360
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1886
Sheet size
29 × 23 cm (11.4 × 9.1 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-12800-1-40 & BG-12800-1-41
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. Minor wear and foxing. Please review the images for further condition details.
About this sheet
Two plates of the ribs and sternum of Dinoceras mirabile, an extinct genus of herbivorous mammal, original lithographs from volume 10 of Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Othniel Charles Marsh's Dinocerata, published in 1886. Each plate is printed in black on a cream sheet and lettered "Dinoceras mirabile, Marsh" beneath the figures, with a plate number at the upper right.
One plate shows the long, curved ribs and straight bones set out as numbered figures, and the other shows the segments of the sternum, arranged in rows with numbered views. The bones are drawn singly and in two or three views each, so that their form can be studied from every side. 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 the plates of his monograph document the skeleton of Dinoceras bone by bone.
