Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Mammals

4to, later brown cloth, original front wrapper bound in, 56 lithograph plates, including a large cloth backed folding plate in the rear, [xviii], 243 pp. Light wear to cloth, still lokks fresh and new, original wrapper chipped and brittle, old dampstain to top edge of plates; otherwise very good. Marsh (1831-1899) was one of the most well known dinosaur hunters of the 19th century. His bitter rivalry with Edward Drinker Cope produced a huge number of fossils that can be seen at the Peabody Museum at Yale, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. As each of these noted paleontologists rushed to discover and name the most dinosaurs, their scientific battle was often reported in the popular press. This work, which was done as part of the U. S. Geological Survey, contains 56 lithographic plates, that illustrate some extinct mammals and their skeletal anatomy. Plate number 56, which is the large folding plate in the rear, presents the skeleton of a large extinct animal. DSB.