rare books

Reflections of the Event – Presented by Erin Mollenhauer, Senior Archivist & Special Collections Librarian During Sydney Rare Book Week, the Donald Robinson Library hosted “500 Years of Books,” an...

How do you build a theological library in a new colony? For William Grant Broughton, Archdeacon of NSW and then Bishop of Australia, the answer was crowdsourcing! The commercial book...

In 2020 the Donald Robinson Library was privileged to receive a generous donation of 16th-18th century theological books from Latimer Trust in the UK. They now reside in the rare...

The oldest existing collection of books, which may be described as a Library, in Australia is the Port Jackson Lending Library. This small collection of commentaries and theological works was...