How do I merge my photo's from my external hard drive into my iPhoto on my hard drive

I have 12,000 photos on my external hard drive, and i have about 1200 on my Mac Mini Hard Drive, these 1200 would be duplicates if i merge them, how do I merge into my Mini without Duplicating photo's

And as photos or as an iPhoto library
Which ever it is you have to restore them to disk first and then use them - how you use them depends on what you have - which you still have not answered
I
f these are just photos then import selecting not to import duplicates
If they are in two iPhoto libraries for the same version of iPhoto then use iPhoto Library Manager - http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/ -  to merge the libraries eliminating duplicates
What do you have?
LN

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