The thread-bound books of ancient books in Nanjing University mainly come from the collections of the former Central University, Jinling University and the Institute of Chinese Studies of Jinling University, with a number of more than 380,000 volumes, including nearly 3,000 rare books and more than 30,000 volumes. All these precious documents can be divided into four parts, especially the collection of local historical books and selected books of Ming and Qing Dynasties. They are cultural heritages that have been preserved after several generations of Nantah disasters and occupy an important position in the academic development history of Nanjing University for more than a century. Another source of NTU's ancient books collection is donations from professors. Central University and Jinling University are prestigious institutions of higher learning, and many professors have a considerable number of private books for teaching and scientific research. For a long time, many famous professors not only devoted their lives to education, but also selflessly donated their private books to the school library. Mr. Chen Zhongfan, Mr. Wang Bijiang, Mr. Li, Mr. Luo Genze, Mr. Miao, Mr. Ni Zeyu, Mr. Ouyang Yi, Mr. Zhong Tai, Mr. Huang Yuyu and Mr. Cheng all presented a large number of books, including many precious ancient books, which made indelible contributions to the collection construction of the library. A glimpse of rare books in Nanjing University Library;

1. Gong Ming's supplement, revision and annotation to the detailed section of Nan Shi (Song) written and printed by Song Jianyang Bookstore, with a total of four volumes. This book is one of the detailed sections of the seventeenth history, and it is an abridged version that the author checked correctly when reading history.

2. Xu Heng's Chronology of the East China Sea (Qing Dynasty), manuscript. A book Donghai Gong Xu Xueqian was a famous historian in the early Qing Dynasty. This chronicle was written by the grandson of Xu VII, but it was not printed. This is a valuable academic material for studying Xu's life.

3. The Book of Tea Horse Plays in Past Dynasties (Ming Dynasty) was compiled by Xu and engraved in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty. The memorial covers all aspects of tea law and horse administration since the middle of Ming Dynasty. It is the first-hand material to study the tea-horse trade in Ming Dynasty, and it has important reference value to study the economy, politics, culture and military affairs in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

4. "Allusions of the National Dynasties" (Qing Dynasty) Zhenji, manuscript. Two volumes. This book records the laws and regulations of the Qing Dynasty. 1932 was purchased by Zhicheng Deng, a famous professor of history at Peking University, and then collected by the library.

5. The history of mink (Ming Dynasty) was written by Zhang Shize and engraved in Wanli of Ming Dynasty. Sable refers to eunuch. The book is divided into five episodes, which are rich in information and complete in style, and are important materials for studying ancient political history and eunuch history.

6. The Story of the West Lake (Qing Dynasty), an ancient and modern relic, is a series of Mo prodigal sons, which was overprinted in ten colors in the early years of Qing Emperor Kangxi. It is a collection of short stories with the scenery of the West Lake in Hangzhou as the background, with vivid and popular words, especially at the beginning of the book, with a full picture of the West Lake and ten beautiful pictures of the West Lake, most of which are original works or imitations of famous painters in Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and are beautifully overprinted. The collection of ancient local chronicles in Nantah began very early. 1923, Jinda has a cooperative project with USDA to study the agricultural history of China. By 1929, Jinda has established a system of three colleges: arts, science and agriculture. At that time, Mr. Wan, an expert in agricultural history who was the director of the Agricultural Book Research Department of Agricultural College, was sponsored by the US Department of Agriculture and began to collect local chronicles. Since the early agricultural book research department was managed by the Agricultural College and the library, this work was also actively supported by Mr. Liu Guojun, the librarian at that time, and then the Institute of Chinese Studies joined the work. They sent people to buy antique bookstores everywhere, and soon formed a special collection of Jinda Library.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Jin Da hastily moved inward, and most books could not be transported to Sichuan. After consulting with Mr. Li, the acting director of the Institute of Sinology of Jinda University, the curator secretly transported all the local chronicles in the collection to Huizhou for hiding, and then transported the rare books from Tunxi to Wuyuan, Jiangxi. Several employees who undertook this important task suffered from displacement and narrowly escaped death, and finally saved this precious cultural heritage. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, local chronicles were also shipped back to Nanjing. 1952 When the departments were adjusted, all the local chronicles of Jinda Library and Institute of Culture were merged into Nanjing University Library. Since then, Mr. Li, the director of Nantah Library, has made great efforts to find and sort out handwritten manuscripts, and the collection of books has been continuously enriched. There are more than 4,300 kinds and 40,000 volumes of local chronicles in the collection. Nanjing University Library has always attached importance to the collection of local documents. During their predecessors, Central University Library and Jinling University Library, they made great efforts to search for ancient local chronicles and soon formed a special collection. Adhering to the fine traditions of CUHK and Kim Dae, NTU Library spared no effort to collect newly revised local chronicles, literature and history materials, and revolutionary historical materials of the history of the Taiwan Federation. The newly revised local chronicles record the history and present situation with brand-new viewpoints and methods, and it is a comprehensive, systematic and authoritative information treasure house of chinese national geography. Literature and historical materials of party history and revolutionary historical materials are local historical materials compiled by local CPPCC and the Party History Office according to the principle of "three relatives" (personal experience, personal experience and personal news), which record the political, military, diplomatic, economic and cultural aspects of China's modern history from different angles, make up for the shortcomings of existing historical materials and provide a vast amount of microscopic historical materials. Together with the literature and history of Taiwan Province Province and Chinese mainland Province, the literature and history of Taiwan Province Province has become a new resource for the study of modern history and culture in China.

There are about 30,000 volumes of modern and contemporary local documents in Nanjing University Library, covering more than 900 administrative regions/kloc-0. Nearly 10,000 volumes of literature and history materials have been digitized, and periodicals in more than 20 languages from more than 80 countries and regions have been collected, especially those in physics, biology, geoscience, mathematics and orientalism. There was a rich collection of Chinese social science books and periodicals before 1949. Nanda Library is also the national university geography (geology, geography, meteorology, astronomy, environmental science) teaching material center and liberal arts literature center built by the Ministry of Education. After years of hard work, the collection content has been further expanded and the collection characteristics have been enhanced.