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The Rhino Document Library

Contains a total of 30057 references.

The RRC website provides access to an extensive database of indexed and tagged references, abstracts and full texts covering all aspects of rhino knowledge. There are no restrictions on language, time period, location or type of publication, including reports and grey literature. Contributions and suggestions are welcome.

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Douwe Mout 1747. Broadsheet of tour of Clara, the Dutch Rhinoceros: Wahre Abbildung (no place). Facing left, simple landscape (Faust 715).
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Paul, Marx 1747. Ausführliche Beschreibung des angekommenen grossen Wunder-thiers Rhinoceros [Clara, Dutch rhinoceros]. Curieuse und zur See wohl erfahrne Holländische Boots-Knecht (Evangelisch-verbesserter, Catholisch-Neuer und Alter Julianischer Europäische Kalender), Hanau 1747: 1 p., foldout plate (Wahre Abbildung des grossen Wunder-Thiers, Nashorn. oder Rhinoceros).
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Douwe Mout 1754. Exhibition of a rhinoceros [Clara] in Königsberg, Germany. Document in Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
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Douwe Mout 1747. Mout, David, holländischer Schiffskapitän, Adelsstand, „von der Meer“, Wappenbestätigung, 1747.01.01. Archiv Wien: AT-OeStA_AVA Adel RAA 283.53.
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WWF Indonesia 1992. Badak Jawa di Taman Nasional Ujung Kulon. Jakarta. pp. 1-16.
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Eykelboom, J. 2003. De rhinoceros en de olifant. NRC Handelsblad 2003 January 31: 23.
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Douwe Mout 1746. Broadsheet of tour of Clara, the Dutch Rhinoceros: Veritable Portrait (French, Dutch, German, English). Example with date 1746 only. (Faust 2003, no. 0708).
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Douwe Mout 1746. Drawing of rhinoceros (Clara) by Anton A. Beck. Drawing preserved in Braunschweig, Stadtarchiv, sign. H. V. 82.
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Douwe Mout 1746. Exhibition of rhinoceros in Braunschweig: “Es wird allen resp. Liebhabern in Braunschweig kund gethan”. Broadsheet with long text: Erlangen, Universitätsbibliothek, Flugblätter, A V 8: (Faust 2003, no. 706).
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Muetzel, G. 1857. Erste Thier-Fibel mit 24 vierfussigen Thieren. Berlin, Winckelmann und Sohne.
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Douwe Mout 1746. Exhibition of rhinoceros in Braunschweig, Germany. Braunschweigische Anzeigen 1746 (no.10) for 2 February: 232.
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Douwe Mout 1747. Etwas von einem lebendigen Rhinoceros oder Nasen-Horn, welches man im April. 1747 nacher Dressden gebracht, und ums Geld sehen lassen. Neu-eröffnete historische Correspondenz von alten und neuen Curiosis Saxonicis [Curiosa Saxonica] 1747 April (Erste Helfte): 114-125.
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Golding, V. 1906. The story of David Livingstone (The children’s heroes series). London, T.C. & E.C. Jack.
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La Fontaine, Jean de 1867. Fables de La Fontaine avec les dessins de Gustave Doré, vol. 2. Paris, L. Hachette.
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Anonymous 1920. Les animaux sauvages et domestiques : album pour les enfants, avec de nombreuses illustrations, par Bocourt, Freemann, Yan d’Argent, etc., et des hors-texte en chromotypogravure de Brun et Cie. Paris, Garnier frères.
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Rundell, J.B.; Griset, E.H. 1869. Aesop’s fables, illustrated by Ernest Griset. With text based chiefly from Croxall, La Fontaine and L’Estrange. London, Cassell, Petter and Galpin.
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Douwe Mout 1742. Permission to Gerrit Harting to show a rhinoceros in Delft. Delfts Stadsarchief, Archieven van het Stadsbestuur, inv. nr. 4255,.
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Clement, T.; Inglis, S. 2022. Vietnam’s virtual landscape for illicit wildlife trade: a snapshot of e-commerce and social media. Geneva, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. pp. 1-26.
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Ham, G. van der 2022. Clara the rhinoceros: wonderbeast, sensation, muse. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum. pp. 1-208 (paperback, ISBN 9789462087477).
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Fauvelle, F.X. 2018. The golden rhinoceros: Northeastern South Africa, thirteenth century. In: Fauvelle, F.X., The golden rhinoceros: stories of the African middle ages. Princeton University Press: pp. 135-142.
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Chimani, L. 1816. Gemählde aus der Natur, Kunst, Völkerkunde und dem Menschenleben, mit einem erklarenden Texte fur die Jugend. Wien, Heinrich Friedrich Muller vol. 2.
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