Collection of assorted wild animal species kept for purposes like: study, conservation and, or, commercial exhibition

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Animal rights : why should it concern me? / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

A monkey rejects the old style clyster for his new 'clyso-pompe', which he fills with opium and marshmallow. Coloured lithograph.

Plan of the gardens of the Zoological Society in the Regents Park, London.

A gnu and two goats in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Lithograph by the brothers Lambert after Huet fils.

American zoo : a sociological safari / David Grazian.

The wonders of the animal kingdom. Exhibiting delineations of the most distinguished wild animals in the various menageries of this country / By Robert Huish.

Wild animals in captivity / H. Hediger ; translated by G. Sircom.

Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries / prepared by Pieter Smit with the assistance of A.P.M. Sanders and J.P.F. van der Veer.

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American zoo : a sociological safari / David Grazian.

The wonders of the animal kingdom. Exhibiting delineations of the most distinguished wild animals in the various menageries of this country / By Robert Huish.

Wild animals in captivity / H. Hediger ; translated by G. Sircom.

Hendrik Engel's Alphabetical list of Dutch zoological cabinets and menageries / prepared by Pieter Smit with the assistance of A.P.M. Sanders and J.P.F. van der Veer.

Animal rights : why should it concern me? / People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.