Set of 3 Antique Paleontology Prints of a Dinoceras Mirabile by Marsh '1886'
€ 300
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-12800-1-48 +2
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
A set of three original lithograph plates of fossil foot bones 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, with plate numbers in the upper corner.
Each sheet is lettered "Dinoceras mirabile, Marsh" below the image. The first plate shows six views of individual tarsal bones in perspective, the second a grid of twelve small views of the same type of bone from different angles, and the third six larger studies of the astragalus, calcaneum, cuboid and navicular. Fine stippled shading gives the worn, fossilized surfaces their weight and texture. The artist's name appears at the lower left and the lithographer's, E. Crisand of New Haven, at the lower right.
Marsh's Dinocerata monograph was among the most lavishly illustrated scientific publications of the Gilded Age, and its plates remain among the finest American paleontological lithographs.
