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

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.

1 unnumbered leaf, ii, 122 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 63 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, add. engr. t.page ; (4to)

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.

x, 340 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.

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.

1 folded sheet (8 pages) : colour illustrations ; 21 cm

1 print : lithograph, with watercolour ; image 19 x 24.8 cm

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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.

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