Marsh's Classic: Large Paper & Signed

MARSH, O. C. Dinocerata: A Monograph of an Extinct Order of Gigantic Animals. Washington: [G.P.O.], 1884. 1st ed. Folio. 17, 237 pp. 56 lithographed plates, some of them folding. Contemp. 3/4 red leather & marbled boards. $650.00

Inscribed by Marsh to Gov. George Peabody Wetmore in 1886. With numerous woodcuts. "To Marsh must be given credit for putting the collection and preparation of vertebrate fossils upon a truly scientific basis." --DAB.