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UNSW Canberra Rare Books is a rich resource of rare works, historic journals, and other printed formats — with a special emphasis on Australian military history and twentieth-century Australian literature — available for your research. Housed in Special Collections, the material comprises 10,000 plus rare books from the late fifteenth century through to the present, including splendidly bound and engraved late eighteenth and nineteenth-century works, significant literary first editions, historic military manuals, tactical pamphlets and trench maps, and other publications covering a diversity of topics.

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Sons of the Anzacs

Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries : from the latter part of the reign of Edward II, to the coronation of Henry IV - Plates

Prisoners of war : narrative of privations and sufferings of United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the Rebel authorities.

Old English coffee houses

Junior cadet training : text book, 1916

Injuries and diseases of war : a manual based on experience of the present campaign in France

Infantry sword exercise

Abstracts of the number and yearly pay of the land-forces of horse, foot and dragoons in Great Britain for the year 1718 ...

A treatise of mechanics, theoretical, practical and descriptive Vol. II

A treatise of mechanics, theoretical, practical and descriptive Vol. I

A treatise of mechanics, theoretical, practical and descriptive Plates

A sequel to Barrington's voyage to New South Wales : comprising an interesting narrative of the transactions and behaviour of the convicts : the progress of the colony

A popular account of Australian snakes

A list of the officers of the Militia of the United Kingdom

A calm address to our American colonies

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Rare Books

A selection of contemporary Australian literary editions, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra

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Collection SummaryThis collection includes a sample of digitised Rare Books held in UNSW Canberra’s Special Collections.

Books are placed into the Rare Books collections at the UNSW Canberra campus if they are considered to be of significant value due to their scarcity, uniqueness, subject content or age.

The Canberra Rare Books collection includes a significant number of items on World War One.

UNSW Canberra Rare Books

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