Cloven-hoofed

The library has a number of fine pictures and books with illustrations of cattle, sheep, goats and swine. Below some unique specimens and a selection of plates in books from the 1800 period.  

Examples from the Pictorial Collection containing a few original watercolours and other unique specimens:

D.K.C.G. Sturm: Die Viehracen ... nach der Natur gezeichnet und illuminiert.  1818-19:

D. Low:  The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands.  1842:

H.W. Pabst:  Anleitung zur Rindviehzucht.  1851: 
 

A. Rueff:  Die Racen des Rindes.  1877:

J.P. Sheldon:  Dairy farming ...  [1880]: 

N. Julmy:  Les races de chevres de la Suisse.  1896: