Digital Scriptorium

Digitised Works from the Rare Book Collection

48 views of the Concentration Camp, Berrima, New South Wales, Australia, 1914-1919, Sydney : Epworth Press, [between 1919 and 1926] This pictorial work has been scanned and placed on our Flickr site.
AUCHMUTY - RARE BOOK COLLECTION 940.47294 FORT
John Askew's trip to Newcastle and Maitland (1857) pp 237 - 316 (1.84 Mb PDF Version) from his work entitled A voyage to Australia & New Zealand including a visit to Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Hunter's River, Newcastle, Maitland and Auckland : with a summary of the progress and discoveries made in each colony from its founding to the present time / by a steerage passenger, John Askew. Published London : Simpkin Marshall, 1857.
Australie, 1845-1890 (E.M. Heron) - The balance of pain: and other poems: By Australie. London : George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1877 (Chiswick Press: - printed by C. Whittingham, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane) We present the first eleven pages from this rare Australian work, the complete version is available on CD-ROM.
AUCHMUTY - RARE BOOK COLLECTION A821.89P/H5623/1
The Cornucopia (1821) - Scanned images of all the plates from this 19th Century theatrical serial are presented here.
Peter Miller Cunningham (1789 - 1864) Letter VIII pp 142 - 161 (2.35MB PDF version) - from Two Years in New South Wales; A Series of Letters, comprising Sketches of the Actual State of Society in that Colony; of its Peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural History, &c. &c. by P. Cunningham, Surgeon, R.N. London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827.
Dangar, Henry (1796-1861). Index and Directory to Map of the Country bordering upon the River Hunter.. Henry Dangar's Index and Directory was written for the guidance of emigrant settlers in the Hunter River district.
Ludovic Hébert de Beauvoir's visit to Newcastle 17th - 22nd October 1866. Being excerpts from Chapter 13 of the 14th Edition (1883) of Australie : voyage autour du monde par le Comte de Beauvoir. Paris : Plon, 1883. Translated from the French by Dr Marie Ramsland, School of Language and Media, University of Newcastle Australia.
AUCHMUTY RARE BOOK GENERAL COLLECTION 919.4/22
Excerpts relating to Newcastle and the Hunter Valley from G. Butler Earp's The gold colonies of Australia, and gold seeker's manual… London : George Routledge, 1853.
AUCHMUTY - GENERAL RARE BOOK COLLECTION 994.03/98
Excelsior Land Investment & Building Company & Bank. Plans, views and particulars of the Toronto Estate, Lake Macquarie, for sale by the Excelsior Land Investment & Building Company & Bank Ltd [Sydney : The Company?, 1887?] AUCHMUTY - GENERAL RARE BOOK COLLECTION Q333.3099442 PLAN
The emigrant and the heathen, or, Sketches of missionary life edited by the Rev. J.J. Halcombe. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1874] pp 1 - 184. (10MB PDF)
AUCHMUTY - RARE BOOK MILLS COLLECTION 266.3/7 c.2
Hill, Richard, 1782-1836 (Complete HTML Version) -Notes on the Aborigines of New South Wales : with personal reminiscences of the tribes formerly living in the neighbourhood of Sydney and the surrounding districts / by The Hon. Richard Hill and The Hon. George Thornton Sydney : C. Potter, Govt Printer, 1892.
AUCHMUTY - RARE BOOK GRAY COLLECTION 305.89915/142
The Jarry/Gray Manuscript
Handwritten : Includes 318 leaves consisting of two hand-written treatises in French relating to military operations, written by General François Jarry; 40 leaves handwritten in English, relating mainly to agricultural work undertaken at or near Port Macquarie, by Colonel Charles George Gray, beginning from opposite end of book. Gray's diary appears to have been written in 1839.
This manuscript has been fully digitised and is available from our Flickr site. Further information relating to the manuscript is published on our blog.
Jephson, Henry (PDF version) Fata Morgana; or, The Bristol sculptor's idol : A poem. Hobart : T.L. Hood, 1881.
AUCHMUTY - RARE BOOK LIGHT A821.1 JEPH-1 FATA 1881
A Most Mysterious 'Angelic' Manuscript Fragment from Book 2 [Distinction VII] from Peter Lombard (ca.1100 – ca.1160) Libri Quattuor Sententiarum. Translated by Dr Rhona Beare with some assistance from Professor Harold Tarrant and Emeritus Professor Godfrey Tanner. Sourced and prepared by Gionni di Gravio.
Excerpts relating to Newcastle and the Hunter Valley from New South Wales : its railway system, holiday resorts, &c. : a convenient volume of reference to the principal railway stations and places of interest along the railway lines / Railway Commissioners of New South Wales, Sydney : Government Printer, 1897.
AUCHMUTY - GENERAL RARE BOOK COLLECTION 919.44 NEWS-1
Bernhard Pollack - Methods of staining the nervous system translated from the second German edition by William R. Jack. Glasgow : F. Bauermeister ; London : Whittaker & Co., 1899 (PDF)
AUCHMUTY - GENERAL RARE BOOK COLLECTION 611.0188 POLL
Noumea to Newcastle: The Story of an Escape by Henri Rochefort (1831-1913) Translated from the French by Emeritus Professor Kenneth R. Dutton. Online Version for the World Wide Web prepared by Gionni di Gravio.
Souvenir of the visit to Australia of the American Fleet, 1908, Sydney : [s.n., 1908] (Sydney : Deaton and Spencer). This has been fully digitised and is available from our Flickr site.
AUCHMUTY GRAY COLLECTION 359.310973/1
Talismans, Cabalistiques, Magiques, grands secretes des Planettes [manuscript] (1704) The manuscript is hand written in French on twenty ruled lines within a frame of c. 180 x 120 mm. ruled on each page and includes sixteen pages of hand-coloured diagrams and arcane symbols. Many of these illustrations are redrawn from Renaissance texts of magic. It is a manual of practical Cabalistic magic which instructs the reader in the art of using talismans which will attract and magnify the powers of the planets and which in turn give the user power over angels whose names have been revealed by the Cabalistic tradition.
This manuscript has been fully digitised and is available from our Flickr site. We have digitised and enlarged the beautiful hand-drawn images. These are also available on Flickr. Further information relating to the manuscript is published on our blog.
William Tom - History of the discovery of the first payable gold-field (Ophir) in Australia / [William Tom, junior, J.A.H. Lister, James Tom] [New South Wales] : Western Examiner, 1871