Don't look up: the National Library's main reading room; and The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

Jan Huygens van Linschoten, Henricks F. ab Lungren, Arnold Florent van Lungren and Jan Huygens van Linschoten. Exacta et accurate delineation chum or arum Maritim arum tam team loco rum terrestrial quake in region bus China, Cauchi China, Cambodia, save Champak, Shao, Malacca, African & Peg, ulnà cum omnium vici arum insula rum description Ut sunt Sumatra, Java ultraquiet, Tamora, Molucca, Philippian, Lucania et de Levees, neck non insulae Japan et Correa, relive omnes adjacence’s, ubi et jam antivirus scopulas, brivla, Omnia vadose local & Sivarajah à quipus pediculus Navigant bus ... = Warrachie twirling ostia abuilding van alle die custom ended Landen van China, Cauchi China, Cambodia, Satao, Malacca, African ended Peg, misgenders alle die bowlegged islander Groote ended cleaned, met notch die clipped, rife, Sanden, droughted ended undieted ales wt. de alder correct set pas ended Lifecare betoken due de Portugaloifsche ftvÿrlvijden hvijdendaechs gebrvijcken , 1596, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-489649015

Tranby Aboriginal Co-Operative

Manuscript map of Guangdong: [Chaozhou fu: Chenghai - Chaoyang - Huilai - Nanao Dao fang yu tu], (1850), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230559800

Japanese fairy tale series (detail), nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn4932419

Members of the Bondi Surf Bathers’ Life Saving Club in training with a surf reel, 1939. Image courtesy of the BSBLSC.

Leather and silk sandals worn to celebrate liturgical functions within the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat, Ballarat Diocesan Historical Commission collection.

Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (detail), 1901, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1666224

Tin of Boer War chocolates from the Papers of Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, 1807-1950, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2338318065

Illustration from The Little Refugee by Anh Do with Suzanne Do; illustrated by Bruce Whatley, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn5350411