Rare Books Exhibition
Highlights of the Monash Rare Book Collection
August - October 1995
Among the items shown are manuscript letters written
by Jonathan Swift; a set of botanical specimens gathered by
Ferdinand van Mueller for use in schools; von Mueller's own set of
Flora Australiensis illustrated with original botanical sketches
and watercolours; a collection of Restoration plays; rare travel books,
cookery books, Australiana; Gould's Birds of
Australia and Celia Rosser's Banksias.
You may read the text of the catalogue
with a selection of illustrations online.
Left: Plate from The Birds of
Australia by John Gould |
