Rare books

About the collection

The rare book collection consists of over 25,000 volumes in the following categories:

• early Australian imprints
• early overseas imprints
• limited editions
• association copies
• fine printings or bindings
• significant first editions
• and other items that are known to be rare or valuable.

Find this collection

Rare books and folios held in this collection have the prefixes:

• DU ADPML SPC
• DU ADPML SPFOL

This collection may be used in the reading room of the Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library.

Collection highlights

The material in this collection provides a resource for research in:

• Australian history
• Victorian history
• 19th century Australian and overseas architecture
• 19th century travel
• missionaries of the Pacific
• Papua New Guinea historical research
• women in the home
• nutrition and domestic literature
• natural history