Original Dams of the English Thorough-bred manuscript translation, 1891/1896

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
170 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
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Preferred citation:

MSS 16399 Original Dams of the English Thorough-bred manuscript translation, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
0.02 Cubic Feet 1 volume
Language:
English and German.
Preferred citation:

MSS 16399 Original Dams of the English Thorough-bred manuscript translation, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Hand copied translation by unknown translator of Die Stamm-Muetter des Englischen Vollblutpferdes, second edition (Hamburg, 1891) by Hermann Goos. English translation is bound with printed German copy, as well as three newspaper issues on the topic of horseracing. Two of these newspapers are issues of the Berlin publication Sport-Welt, dating from 22 December 1893 and 6 February 1896.

Biographical / historical:

Hermann Goos was the author of Die Stamm-Muetter des Englischen Vollblutpferdes, which was first published in 1885. He issued a second edition of this book in 1891. The volume is one of the earliest scientific studies of breeding thoroughbred racehorse mares.

Source: Materials within collection.

Acquisition information:
2017-0122 Purchased 7 June 2017. Marion duPont Scott Fund.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Horses -- Breeding