Rare Books Collection

The Earth Sciences Rare Book Collection is held at the Earth Sciences Library. It is an important research collection of rare and early geological and palaeontological texts. The collection includes many seminal works from the 19th and early 20th centuries. It includes over 1,000 volumes and approximately two thirds of the items in the collection are the only known copy available in Australia.

Apart from a small number of items, the collection is not catalogued on the University of Melbourne Library Catalogue. This list is organised alphabetically by author and title. Volumes are not available for loan but can be used in the library.

Books may be viewed in the Special Collections Reading Room in the Baillieu Library, by arrangement in advance with staff in the Earth Sciences Library. Please note that it takes 72 hours to process requests. Contact the Earth Sciences Library to request items.

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Advisory Council of Science and Industry: Atlas of contour and rainfall maps of Australia; 1918, (bundle 1);
Call Number: B6, S3

Agassir, L., Nouvelles etudes et experiences sur les glaciers actuels: Leur structure, leur progression et leur action physique sur le sol, Paris: Victor Masson, 1847
Call Number: B1, S1

Allan, Robert; Manual of mineralogy comprehending the more recent discoveries in the mineral kingdom; Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1834
Call Number: B3, S1

Andreae, A.; Die oligocanschichten im elsass; Strassburg: Druck von R. Schultz & Co., 1884
Call number: B2, S3

Andrews, Charles William; A descriptive catalogue of marine reptiles of the Oxford clay, based on the Leeds collection in the British Museum (Natural History), London, Part I & II; London: Longmans & Co., 1910-1913
Call number: B5, S2

Andrews, Charles William; A descriptive catalogue of the tertiary vertebrata of the Fayum, Egypt, based on the collection of the Egyptian Government in the Geological Museum, Cairo, and on the collecton in the British Museum (Natural History), London; London: Longmans & Co., 1906
Call number: B5, S2

Andrews, E. C.; The mineral industry of New South Wales, Sydney : Alfred James Kent, Government Printer, 1928.
Call number: 559.44 NEWS. (B9, S3-5)

Angelin, N.P.; Palaeontologia Scandinavica, part 1, Crustacea formationis transitionis; Holmiae: Samson & Wallin, 1878
Call number: B5, S2

Annual report of the Secretary for Mines: on the working of the regulation and inspection of mines and mining machinery Act during the year 1888; Melbourne: Robert S. Brain, 1889
Call Number: B4, S4

Annual report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the territories embracing Colorado and parts of adjacent territories; being a report of progress of the exploration for the year 1874; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876
Call Number: B1, S2

Annual report on dredge mining and hydraulic sluicing; Victoria, 1911 (bundle 1)
Call Number: B6, S4

Arrhenius, Svante,; Worlds in the making : the evolution of the universe, translated by H. Borns, London : Harper & Brothers, c1908.
Call number: 551.1 ARRH. (B9, S3-5)
Note: bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

The Atoll of Funafuti, ellice group: its zoology, botany, ethnology, and general structure (Memoir III) Based on the collections of Hedley, Charles; Sydney: Australian Museum, 1896;
Call number: B1, S3

Attwood, George; Practical blowpipe assaying; New York: D. van Nostrand, 1881
Call number: B3, S2

Austin, J.B.; The mines of South Australia, including also an account of the smelting works in that colony, together with a brief description of the country, and incidents of travel in the bush; Adelaide: C. Platts et. Al., 1863
Call number: B1, S3

The Australian Journal of Science, vol. IX (1946-7) & vol. XI (1948-9); 1947 & 1948
Call Number: B5, S5

Australian Museum; Scientific results of the trawling expedition of HMCS Thetis off the coast of New South Wales in February and March, 1898 (Memoir IV), Part 10; Sydney: Australian Museum, 1907.
Call number: B1, S3

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