"Fragments" is the term used to describe the surviving parts of what used to be a whole book.

The materials were created by Dr. J.J.C. Bradfield, the first University of Sydney PhD in Engineering. He is known for the design and construction of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Original artwork and illustrations for books published by the NSW Bookstall Company held by the University of Sydney Library.

Fore-edge paintings were created by fanning out the pages of the book and then clamping them to create an angled surface for the artist to paint on.

Ukiyo-e (浮世絵) or "floating world" is a genre of Japanese art popularly used to depict life during the peaceful Edo period

19th century ships' logs and other documents relating to maritime history and shipping.

The Quartier Latin was a modernist journal devoted to the arts

Manuscripts and printed works from the Medieval and Early Modern period

Donovan's illustrations were the first European recordings of the entomology of India and Australia.

Statistics from 1950 - 2009 about the staff, students, and courses of the University of Sydney

Items related to the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 1870 - 1929

Evelyn Nicholson was the daughter in law of Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet, one of the founders of Sydney University. This is the diary that Nicolson kept during a honeymoon voyage to Austral...

In 2017, Library staff discovered a red chalk sketch by Giorgione and a notice for his death in this 1497 edition of Dante's Divine Comedy

This selection of material from the Lawson Collection has been chosen to illustrate some of the chapters of Henry Lawson's life and the ways in which his contemporaries remembered him.

The University of Sydney copy is one of only four known first edition copies that were sent by Newton and his assistant Roger Cotes to other mathematicians for peer review

The USU has proudly published Hermes since 1886, making it Australia’s oldest literary journal.

Honi Soit, the University of Sydney’s student newspaper, has been published by the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) since 1929

With sixty-five plates of non-descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions.

The Library’s collection of Spanish liturgical music manuscripts includes the Lamentations of Jeremiah, several graduals, antiphonals, kyriales, tropers and two rare processionals.

A unique collection of contemporary visual art that showcases the scholarly research of SCA staff, students and alumni

is a collection of documents, personal papers, photographs and realia relating to the New Australia Colony and Cosme Colony held in Rare Books and Special Collections.

A collection devoted to pioneering botanical texts and images.

An interactive, dichotomous key to all species of vascular plants in the Sydney Region

A digital archive of information about the archaeology and heritage of important cultural places in New South Wales.

A comprehensive resource on the life and works of John Anderson, Challis Professor of Philosophy, 1927 until 1958.

The University of Sydney Library's collection of Australian Literary and Historical Texts.

A collection devoted to literary emergence in the 1840s.

A collection devoted to national debates and auxiliary writings of the 1890s, introduced by Helen Irving.