Set of 2 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'
€ 250
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-12800-1-8 & BG-12800-1-9
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 molars, lower jaw and teeth 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.
The first plate shows a row of teeth in side view, with the crowns of the upper molars set out below in two parallel rows seen from the chewing surface. The second plate shows rows of molars from above and from the side, and the lower jaw in profile, with its rising hinge at the right and the toothrow set along the upper edge. Each figure is numbered, and the shading brings out the cusps and ridges of the crowns. 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 teeth were central to his study of the order.
