Consignment Added 2009

 
Component identifier:
Class MS Acc09.003
Content Summary:

Comprises the deed of gift to the Commonwealth of Australia of an Australasian and Polynesian library. This is the signed and sealed illuminated address, recording the presentation by E.A. Petherick and his wife Mary Agatha Petherick, to the Chairman of the Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament, of his private library for the use of the people of the Commonwealth. The collection of some 16,500 titles formed the nucleus of the National Library of Australia's collection of Australiana.

Contained in 1 elephant folio.

Immediate source of acquisition:
Edward Augustus Petherick presented his collection of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps and pictures relating to Australia and the Pacific to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1909 as the 'Nucleus of an historical museum'. The agreement between Petherick and the Library Committee was formalized by the Petherick Act, which was passed by the Commonwealth Parliament in 1911.

Access and use

Parent Restrictions:
Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1441032).
Parent Terms of Access:
Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
Location of this collection:
Parkes Place
Canberra ACT 2600, Australia
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