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RMIT University Library Special Collection

Find information on how to use the Library's Special Collection.

Architecture

Search the Architecture image collection to find photographs of Australian architecture from the School of Architecture. This collection also includes images of architecture posters and Frank Lloyd Wright drawings.

View the Peter Corrigan Collection in LibrarySearch.

Book cover attribution
Wright, F. L. (1963). Buildings, Plans and Designs. Horizon Press.

Art

View the Art Special Collection in LibrarySearch.

Book cover attribution
Warhol, A. (1967). Andy Warhol's Index Book. Random House.

Chiropractic & Osteopathy

This manual provides the fundamental principles of osteopathy. It embodies osteopathy with diet, baths and exercise. The author intends to provides sufficient knowledge so that the reader can apply home treatment in an emergency.

View the Chiropractic and Osteopathy Special Collection in LibrarySearch, or look at the subset of digitised Chiropractic Collection titles. 

Book cover attribution
Goetz, E. W. (1909). A Manual of Osteopathy. Nature's Cure Co.

Cookery & Home Economics

Book cover attribution
Acton, E. (1845). Modern Cookery: In All Its Branches. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans.

Fashion and Textile Design

View the Fashion and Textiles Special Collection in LibrarySearch.

Book cover attribution
Penduck, E. C. (1949). Textile Design for Hand Woven and Printed Fabrics.

Keith Murdoch Collection

View the Keith Murdoch Collection in LibrarySearchThis collection contains books on journalism, journalists, newspapers and publishing as well as books about Sir Keith Murdoch.

Printing

Search the Printing image collection to find a collection of digitised books, student work and artefacts from RMIT's history of teaching printmaking, or see the Printing Special Collection.

Book cover attribution
Knights, C. C. (1934). The Print User's Year Book. The Year Book.

Rare items

Oldest book in the Special Collection

Book cover attribution
Boecler, J. H. (1664). In Taciti Primordia Annalium & Historias Commentatio. Joannis Friderici Spoor.

Fifteenth century printing examples - six rare incunabula leaves

These six rare incunabula manuscript leaves, written in Latin, demonstrate the printing techniques of the fifteenth century.

To read more about these rare incunabula leaves, please refer to the document below, prepared by Vivian Luker, a reference librarian within the RMIT University Library. 

RMIT History

RMIT Archives has an RMIT History guide which points out books in our collection that relate to the history of RMIT University, many of which are in the Special Collection Reading Room.

Book cover attribution
Murray-Smith, S., & Dare, A. J. (1987). The Tech: A Centenary History of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Hyland House. Cover image © Robert Ingpen. All rights reserved.