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It houses a magnificent Africana and Rare Antiquarian Book Collection such as the 18 broadsheet edition of Pierre-Joseph Redouté’s Les Liliacees. Redouté published Les Liliacées (1802-1816) and the institute’s copy is the broadsheet edition…
The Mary Gunn Library is one of the most important botanical and biodiversity resources in Africa. Subjects covered include taxonomy, biodiversity, climate change, global warming, morphology, plant anatomy, plant geography,…
The collection includes photograph albums, photographs, lantern slides, stereographs, postcards and films by professional photographers and amateurs who recorded interesting places and events. Joseph Barnett, Constance Stuart Larrabee, Jurgen Schadeberg,…
The collection includes both manuscript mas and decorative engraved maps and nautical charts relating to Africa, southern Africa and South Africa. They provide a fascinating insight into the cartography of…
The items in the manuscript collection are diverse in content, medium and extent. Besides written accounts, the collection includes scrapbooks, press cuttings, telegrams, maps, sketches and photographs. And, in extent,…
The book and pamphlet collections include the old, the rare and the unusual, hand-coloured illustrations and fine bindings. The books number about 22 000 volumes. The two pamphlet collections contain…
Artworks in The Brenthurst Library complement the collections of published works and manuscripts. The collection, which numbers thousands of works of historical importance, comprises original works in a variety of…
All newspapers published in South Africa are collected by the NLSA. The NLSA has a vast collection of South African newspapers in hardcopy and microfilm format. The digital collection ensures faster…
These 4 000 items now form the nucleus of the Don Africana Library but, of course, the collection has grown enormously. There are now over 50 000 catalogued items and…
The Central Reference Library has a very extensive periodical section. It includes over 300 magazines and journals. Some of the titles in the collection include: Car Mechanics, The Economist, Film…
