first edition Hardcover
1880 · Washington, DC
by Marsh, Othniel Charles
Washington, DC: GPO, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. dark green cloth. Very good.. 201 pages in text. Large 4to, 29 x 23 cm. Thirty-four tinted lithographs including a host of fold-out plates, and forty wood-cut illustrations in the text. The field work extended from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast, and covered a decade with the first fossil discovered in December, 1870, near the Smoky Hill River, in Western Kansas. Text and plates clean overall with dust soiling to fore-edge and lower page margins of descriptive text to each plate. Binding tight and firm.
(Inventory #: 16270)
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