Die Stamm-Mutter des Engl. Vollblutpferdes, 3te Ausgabe 1897 - Dam Lines of English Thoroughbreds
50 Familien - Tafeln (nach Bruce Lowe Nummerirt) Darstellend die Gerade Weibliche Abstammung, Bis auf die Urstamm-Mutter, der Bedeutendsten in England,Frankreich, Deutschland, Oesterreich-Ungarn und Skandinavien Gezogenen Renn- und Zuchtpferde des Englischen Vollblutes. ( 50 Family Tables - after Bruce Lowe numbers - traced directly from the significant Tap-root mares in England, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Scandinavia).

Hermann Goos. Fifty folded tables in an embossed folder with boards, with separately bound alphabetical index and index to families/list of winners of the most important races of England, France , Germany, Austria, Hungary, Scandinavia with family number. Folder is chipped and rubbed (surface} and tips worn, contents bears signature of previous owner 3x, and an updating of winners of races in a neat inked hand 1887 through 1908.

Overall an excellent example of this scarce work. German language with tables subtitled in English.
" In 1885 there appeared in Germany a work by Hermann Goos on the female ancestry of the thoroughbred - a vast undertaking and one of the most important contributions to the study of the breed. By means of his charts one can easily and practically at a glance trace the pedigree of any thoroughbred horse back to the foundation mares listed in the first volume of the Stud-Book (1793)."
'Breeding the Racehorse', Federico Tesio

"(In 1885) . . . the German Hermann Goos published his work in which he sought to establish a classification of female lines, his work a series of genealogical tables of the English Thoroughbred . . . Goos classified and numbered 'Families' according to victories in a number of races which he considered significant . . . (Bruce) Lowe's work (1895 - Breeding Racehorses by the Figure System), unlike the work[s] of Goos, was published in English, then as now a universal medium of communication, and brought his work to a general audience, subsuming the earlier reference works of Walsh, Goos and Frentzel . . . ."

Family Numbers - Their Derivation and Significance, Richard Ulbrich