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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Baily, William Hellier; Figures of characteristic British fossils with descriptive remarks, Part 1 (plates 1-10); London: John van Voorst, 1867
Call number: B2, S2

Baker, Richard T.; Building and ornamental stones of Australia, Sydney : W. A. Gullick, Govt. printer, 1915.
Call number: 553.5 BAK. (B9, S3-5)

Ball, Robert S.; The cause of an ice age, London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1892.
Call number: 551.79 BA. (B9, S3-5)

Ball, V.; A manual of the geology of India: economic geology; Calcutta: Office of the Geological Survey, 1898
Call number: B2, S2

Baragwanath, W.; Maps, sections and plans to accompany Memoir 14 of the Geological Survey of Victoria, the Ballarat goldfield; Melbourne: The Geological Survey
Call number: B4, S1.

Baragwanath, W.; Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria: No. 14, the Ballarat goldfield; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1923
Call number: B4, S1

Baragwanath, W.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 19, the Lauriston-Drummond North gold-field; Melbourne: J.Kemp, acting Government Printer, 1907
Call number: B4, S6

Baragwanath, W.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 20, the Walhalla or Thomson River copper mine; Melbourne: J.Kemp, acting Government Printer, 1906;
Call number: B4, S6

Baragwanath, W.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 30, the Pearl and Hercules energetic mines, Bendigo; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914;
Call number: B4, S6

Baragwanath, W.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 35, the Jubilee mines, Scarsdale; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914
Call number: B4, S6

Baragwanath, W.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 39, the Long Tunnel and adjacent mines, Walhalla, Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1918
Call number: B4, S6

Baragwanath, W.; Records of the Geological Survey of Victoria, vol. 5, part 2; Victoria, 1936
Call number: B6, S4

Barrande, Joachim; Systeme silurien du centre de la boheme; 1852
Call number: B1, S6 (cont. B2, S6)

Barrett, A. O., Australia's entail, Melbourne : Robertson & Mullens, 1937 (Melbourne : Brown, Prior, Anderson).
Call number: 551.3 BARR. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats.

Bartholomew, J.G.; Bartholomew's Physical Atlas, vol. III; Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1899 (c.)
Call number: B6, S5

Bauerman, H., Text-book of systematic mineralogy. London : Longmans, Green, 1881.
Call number: 549 BAU. (B9, S3-5)

Bayle, E. & Zeiller, R.; Explication de la carte geologique de la France, tome quatrieme, Atlas; Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1878
Call number: B2, S3

Bayley, William Shirley; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XLVI: The Menominee iron-bearing district of Michigan; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904
Call number: B7, S6

Bayly, P.G.W.; Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria, No. 31, Briquetting Powlett slack coal with locomotive and boiler tests; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1913
Call number: B3, S6

Bayly, P.G.W.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 31, Briquetting Powlett slack coal with locomotive and boiler tests; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1913
Call number: B4, S6

Becker, George F.; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. III: Geology of the Comstock lode and the Washoe district, with atlas; Washington: Government Printer, 1882
Call number: B5, S6

Becker, George F.; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XIII: Geology of the quicksilver deposits of the Pacific slope, with an atlas; Washington: Government Printer, 1888
Call number: B5, S6

Beilby, J. Wood; Auriferous drifts in Australasia; Melbourne: Walker, May & Co., 1868; Call number: B1, S3

Beilby, J. Wood; Eureka: An elucidation of mysteries in nature - the problems of science; Melbourne: Walker, May & Co., 1883
Call number: B1, S1

Beilby, J. Wood; Reasons suggestive of mining on physical principles for gold and coal: a review of the assumptions of geologists; Melbourne: Walker, May & Co., 1875
Call number: B1, S1

Bell, James MacIntosh et.al; New Zealand Geological Survey: A geographical report on the Franz Joseph Glacier; New Zealand: John MacKay, Government Printer, 1910
Call number: B3, S3

Bendigo goldfield. Melbourne : Mines Dept., 1936 (Melbourne : H.J. Green, Govt. Printer).
Call number: 622.342209945 BEND. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Benjamin, Edward H.; California mines and minerals; San Francisco: California Miners' Association, 1899
Call number: B3, S5

Berghaus, Hermann; Atlas der Geologie (Berghaus' Physikalischer Atlas, Abteilung 1); Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1892
Call number: B6, S5

Bernard, Felix; Elements de palaeontologie; Paris: Libraire J.-B. Bailliere et Fils, 1895 Call number: B2, S1

Berry, Edward Wilber; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-E: Geological history indicated by the fossiliferous deposits of the Wilcox group (eocene) at Meridian, Mississippi; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917
Call number: B5, S2

Berry, Edward Wilber; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 140-C: Pleistocene plants from North Carolina; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1926
Call number: B5, S2

Berry, Edward Wilber; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 165-B: A flora of green river age in the Wind river basin of Wyoming; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1930
Call number: B5, S2

Berwerth, Fritz; Mikroskopische - Structurbilder der Massengesteine in farbingen Lithographien; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshanlung ( E. Nagele), 1900
Call number: B6, S5

Billings, E.; Geological and natural history survey of Canada: Palaeozoic fossils, vol. I - silurian rocks 1861-1865; Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1865
Call number: B7, S2

Billings, E.; Geological and natural history survey of Canada: Palaeozoic fossils, vol. II, part I; Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1874
Call number: B7, S2

Bindon; Victoria Geological Department: Report of, on auriferous drifts and quartz reefs; Melbourne, 1866
Call number: B5, S2

Bischof, Gustav; Elements of chemical and physical geology v. I-III; translated from the manuscript of the author by Benjamin H. Paul and J. Drummond; London: Cavendish Laboratory, 1854-59
Call number: B1, S1

Blake, J. F. , Annals of British geology, 1891 : a digest of the books and papers published during the year, with occasional notes. London : Dulau, 1892.
Call number: 551.0941 BLAK. (B9, S3-5)

Bombicci, L. Contribuzioni di mineralogia Italiana (Memoria) Bologna: Tipi Gamberini E Parmeggiani, 1877
Call number: B2, S3

Bombicci, L.; Corso di mineralogia; Bologna: Tipografia fava e Garagnani, 1873
Call number: B3, S1

Bombicci, L.; Corso di mineralogia, vol. 2, part 1; Bologna: Tipografia fava e Garagnani, 1875
Call number: B3, S2

Bombicci, L.; Descrizione della mineralogia generale della pronvincia di Bologna, Parte Prima; Bologna: Tipi Gamberini E Parmeggiani, 1873
Call number: B2, S3

Bombicci, L.; Descrizione della mineralogia generale della pronvincia di Bologna, Parte Seconde; Bologna: Tipi Gamberini E Parmeggiani, 1874
Call number:: B2, S3

Bombicci, L.; L'emiedria strutturale ed il quarzo plagiedro in aggruppamenti paraboloidi; Bologna: Tipi Gamberini E Parmeggiani, 1872
Call number: B2, S3

Bonney, T.G.; Ice-work: present and past; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubney & Co. Ltd., 1896
Call number: B1, S1

Bonney, T. G. , Volcanoes, their structure and significance, Lond. : Murray, 1899.
Call number: 551.21 BONN. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Sir W. Baldwin Spencer.

Bonwick, James; Western Victoria; its geography, geology, and social condition. The narrative of an educational tour in 1857; Geelong: Thomas Brown, 1858
Call number: B1, S5

Bornemann, Joh. Georg; Die versteinerungen des Cambrischen Schichtensystems der Insel Sardinien, nebst verleichenden Untersuchungen uber analogue Vorkommnisse aus andern landern, erste abtheilung; Dresden: Druck von E. Blochmann & Sohn, 1886
Call number: B3, S6

Bosworth, Thomas Owen, Geology of the Tertiary and Quaternary periods in the north-west part of Peru, by T. O. Bosworth ... With an account of the palaeontology, by Henry Woods ... T. Wayland Vaughan ... J. A. Cushman ... and others. With maps and numerous illustrations. London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1922.
Call Number: 558.5 BOSW. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was from the library of Frederick Chapman.

Bowen, C.F.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-L: Stratigraphy of the Hanna basin, Wyoming; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918
Call number: B5, S2

Bownocker, J.A.; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey, Professional paper 100-B,: the coal fields of the United States - the coal fields of Ohio; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917;
Call number: B6, S3

Bradford, Wm.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 11, the Harrietville Gold-field; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1903
Call number: B4, S6

Bradford, Wm.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 13, the Berringa gold-field; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1904
Call number: B4, S6

Bradford, Wm.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 14, the Maldon gold-field; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1904\
Call number: B4, S6

Bradford, Wm.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 15, the Nerrena or Little Bendigo gold-field; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1904;
Call number: B4, S6

Bragg, Lawrence, Sir, Atomic structure of minerals. London : Oxford University Press, 1937.
Call number: 549 BRA. (B9, S3-5)

Brauns, Reinhard trans. Spencer, L.J.; The mineral kingdom, vol. I & II; Stuttgart: Fritz Lehmann, 1908
Call number: B2, S3

Breithaupt, August; Vollstundiges Handbuch der mineralogie, erster band; Dresden: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1836
Call number: B3, S2

Bridge, Josiah; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 186-L: The correlation of the upper cambrian sections of Missouri and Texas with the section in the upper Mississippi valley; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937
Call number: B5, S2

British Museum (Natural History). Catalogue of the fossil reptilia and amphibia in the British Museum (Natural history) / [compiled] by Richard Lydekker. Pts.1-4, London : The Museum, 1888-90.
Call number: 566 BRIT.

British Museum (Natural History). Catalogue of the fossil Mammalia in the British Museum (Natural History) / by Richard Lydekker. Pts 1-5 London : British Museum (Natural History), 1885-1887.
Call number:: 569 BRIT.

British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology. Catalogue of the fossil Bryozoa (Polyzoa) in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). / by J.W. Gregory., v.1-4, London : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1896-1922.
Call number: 564.7 BRIT.

British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology. Catalogue of the fossil birds in the British Museum (Natural History) Cromwell Road, S.W. / by Richard Lydekker. London, 1891.
Call number: 568.2 BRIT.

British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Geology. Catalogue of the Mesozoic plants in the Department of Geology British Museum (Natural History). Pts.1-6 London : By order of the Trustees, 1894-1915.
Call number: 561 BRI.

Brodie, Peter Bellinger (Rev.); A history of fossil insects in the secondary rocks of England, accompanied by a particular account of the stata in which they occur, and of the circumstances connected with their preservation; London: John van Voorst, 1845
Call number: B7, S3

Bronn, Heinrich; Lethaea Geognostica, oder abbildungen und beschreibungen der fur die gebirgs-formationen bezeichnendsten versteinerungen, mit lithographirten 47 Quart-, 1 folio-Tafel und 2 Tabellen, Erster & Zweiter band; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbandlung und Drukerei, 1835-1837
Call number: B2, S1

Brown coal, report of the Advisory Committee; Victoria, 1917 (bundle 1)
Call Number: B6, S4

Brown, Geo., for the Mines Department; Deep leads of Victoria; Melbourne: H.J. Green, Government Printer, 1937
Call number: B3, S6

Buckland, William (very Rev.); Geology and mineralogy considered with reference to natural theology, vol. I-II; London: George Routledge & Co., 1858
Call number: B3, S1

Burmeister, Hermann; The organisation of trilobites, deduced from their living affinities, with a systematic review of the species hitherto described (trans by Bell & Forbes); London: the Ray Society, 1846
Call number: B5, S2

Burnell, George R.; Rudimentary treatise on limes, cements, mortars, concretes, mastics, plastering etc.; London: Crosby Lockwood & Co., 1887
Call number: B1, S4

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