About 600 books and 66 serials mainly relating to entomology and the natural sciences. The strength is works on British entomology but also includes Europe, North and South America. About one-third were published in the 18th and 19th centuries

Drawings, sketches, plans and photographs of Australian colonial architecture, pencil drawings of ancient buildings from China and Greece, drawings and sketches for a proposed "ideal city" of Kurrajong, drawings and sketches of furniture designs, personal papers.

How to find and use items in the Manuscripts Collection.

The Library has recently acquired a journal recording the first Russian Antarctic expedition in 1819-21.

A summary of copyright and rights in the Manuscripts Collection.

A letter from Sir John Franklin to Captain John Washington from 1839 was recently acquired by the Library.

The Library recently acquired an original draft of a poem by Mark Twain in the form of a letter.

Personal papers and legal material that record of one of the most important and controversial legal cases in Australian history and the life of the man who is chiefly associated with the case.

Our James Cook collection showcases the Library’s most famous item - Cook’s HMS Endeavour journal.

Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sporting teams, even back in the 1860s!

The National Library has recently digitised two letters from the collections of Enid Lyons and Dorot

A comprehensive collection of original records of the Federation movement plus books, pictures, music and other material related to Federation