Special Collections

This collection of antique books encompasses works on medicine, veterinary medicine, farriery, horsemanship, chemistry, pharmacy, physics, botany, agriculture, homeopathy, natural history, entomology, as well as dictionaries and humanistic works.

Carefully preserved in its original integrity, the Veterinary Surgical Library Collection includes 808 titles, among them one manuscript, 45 antique works, and numerous rare publications dating from 1831 to 1941.

Consisting of 4,087 titles, the Nicola Lanzillotti-Buonsanti Collection offers a historical record of the research and academic activities of the Royal Higher School of Veterinary Medicine from 1807 to 1934.