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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Campbell, Marius R.; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey, professional paper 100: the coal fields of the United States - general introduction; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917
Call number B6, S3

Campbell, Marius R.; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey, professional paper 100-A: the coal fields of the United States - general introduction; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917
Call number B6, S3

Carter, Henry J.; Atlas to Geological papers on western India, including Cutch, Sinde, and the south-east coast of Arabia, to which is appended a summary of the geology of India Bombay: Bombay Education Society's Press, 1857
Call number B3, S6

Carter, Henry J. (ed.); Geological papers on western India, including Cutch, Sinde, and the south-east coast of Arabia, to which is appended a summary of the geology of India generally; Bombay: Bombay Education Society's Press, 1857
Call number B3, S5

Catalogue of the minerals exhibited in the Queensland court; Brisbane: Warwick and Sapsford, 1888
Call Number B1, S4

Centenary history of South Australia / under the auspices of the Government of South Australia and the Centenary Committee. Adelaide : Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch, 1936.
Call number: 559.42 ROY. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Chamberlin, Thomas C. & Salisbury, Rollin D.; Geology earth history, vol. II: genesis Palaeozoic; London: John Murray, 1906;
Call number B7, S5

Chamberlin, Thomas C. & Salisbury, Rollin D.; Geology earth history, vol. III: mesozoic, cenozoic; London: John Murray, 1906;
Call number B7, S5

Chamberlin, Thomas C. & Salisbury, Rollin D.; Geology processes and their results; London: John Murray, 1905;
Call number B7, S5

Chapman, Frederick, Illustrated guide to the collection of fossils exhibited in the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne : National Museum of Victoria, 1929 (Melbourne : H. J. Green, Govt. Printer).
Call number: 560.994 CHAP. (B9, S3-5)

Chapman, Frederick, The book of fossils, Sydney : Shakespeare Head Press, 1934.
Call number: 560.994 CHA. (B9, S3-5)

Chapman, Frederick, The foraminifera: an introduction to the study of the protozoa / by Frederick Chapman. London : Longmans, Green, 1902.
Call number: 563.12 CHA. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats.

Chapman, Frederick; Australasian fossils: a student's manual of palaeontology; Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., 1914
Call number B7, S2

Chapman, Frederick; Records of the Geological Survey of Victoria, vol. III, part 4: cainozoic geology of the Mallee and other Victorian bores; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1916
Call number B3, S6

Chief Mining Surveyor; Regulations and instructions for the guidance of mining surveyors under the Mining Department of Victoria; Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1868
Call Number B3, S3

The Chillagoe Proprietary Ltd. Plans of Leases &c., 1898
Call Number B6, S1

Clark, Donald., Australian mining & metallurgy, Melbourne : Critchley Parker, 1904.
Call number: 559.4 CLA. (B9, S3-5)

Clark, Hubert Lyman; Echinodermata (Memoirs, vol. IV, "Thetis" Expedition, Part II); Sydney: Australian Museum, n.d.
Call number B1, S3

Clark, William Bullock & Twitchell, Mayville W.; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. LIV: the mesozoic and cenozoic echinodermata of the United States; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915
Call number B7, S6

Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth & Wheeler, Walter Calhoun; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey, professional paper 102: the inorganic constituents of marine invertebrates; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917
Call number B6, S3

Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth & Washington, Henry Stephens; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 127: The composition of the earth's crust; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1924; (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Clarke, W.B. (Rev.); Remarks on the sedimentary formations of New South Wales; Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1878; (4th edition)
Call number B1, S4

Clements, J. Morgan et.al.; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XLV: The Vermilion iron-bearing district of Minnesota, with an atlas; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903
Call number B7, S6

Clements, J. Morgan et.al.; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXXVI: The Crystal Falls iron-bearing district of Michigan; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899; (includes A chapter on the Sturgeon River tongue by William Shirley Bayley, and An Introduction by Charles Richard van Hise)
Call number B7, S5

Cloizeaux, A. Des; Manuel de mineralogy, Paris: Libraire des corps des ponts et chaussees et des mines, 1862
Call number B4, S3

Coalfields, Western Port, report of the Board; Victoria, 1872 (bundle 1);
Call Number B6, S4

Cohen, E.; Sammlung von Mikrophotographien zur Veranschaulichung der Mikroskopischen Structur von Mineralien und Gesteine; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshanlung ( E. Nagele), 1899
Call number B6, S5

Collier, Arthur J. & Thom Jnr., W.T.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-J: The Flaxville gravel and its relation to other terrace gravels of the northern great plains; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918; (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Conybeare, W.D. (Rev.) & Phillips, William; Outlines of the geology of England and Wales, with an introductory compendium of the general principles of that science, and comparative views of the structure of foreign countries, part I; London: William Phillips, 1822
Call number B4, S3

Cook, Charles W.; Michigan Geological and Biological Survey, Publication 15, Geological Series 12: The brine and salt deposits of Michigan - their origin, distribution and exploitation; Michigan: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1914
Call number B5, S5

Cooke, C.W. & Cushman, J.A.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-G: Orbitoid foraminifera of the genus orthophragmina from Georgia and Florida; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917; (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Cooke, Wythe; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 140-F: Correlation of the basal cretaceous beds of the southeastern states; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1926; (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Collet, Leon W. , The structure of the Alps, Foreword by O.T. Jones, London, E. Arnold & co., 1927.
Call number: 551.89 CO. (B9, S3-5)

Cope, E.D.; The vertebrate of the cretaceous formations of the west (United States Geological Survey of the territories); Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875
Call number B2, S4

Copland, Maurice; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No.16, the Monazite deposit at Pinch Swamp Creek, Bonang district, county of Croajingolong; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1905
Call number B4, S6

Crookall, Robert, Coal measure plants : by R. Crookall. London : E. Arnold, 1929.
Call number: 561 CRO. (B9, S3-5)

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des animaux invertebres: Terrain cretace, tome septieme: Echinides; Paris: Victor Masson, 1862-1867
Call number B5, S5

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des animaux invertebres: Terrain cretace, tome septieme: Echinides, Atlas; Paris: Victor Masson, 1862-1867
Call number B5, S5

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des animaux invertebres: Terrain Jurassique tome neuvieme: Echinides irreguliers (texte); Paris: G. Masson, 1867-1874
Call number B5, S5

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des animaux invertebres: Terrain Jurassique, tome dixieme, 1st partie: Echinides reguliers (atlas); Paris: G. Masson, 1873-1880
Call number B5, S5

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des animaux invertebres: Terrain Jurassique, tome dixieme, 1st partie: Echinides reguliers (texte); Paris: G. Masson, 1873-1880
Call number B5, S5

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des animaux invertebres: Terrain Jurassique, tome neuvieme: Echinides irreguliers (atlas); Paris: G. Masson, 1867-1874
Call number B5, S5

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: description des fossiles de la France, 1st serie - Animaux invertebres. Terrain Tertiaire, tome premier: Echinides Eocenes; Paris: G. Masson, 1885-89
Call number B5, S3

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: description des fossiles de la France, 1st serie - Animaux invertebres. Terrain Tertiaire, tome premier: Echinides Eocenes, Atlas; Paris: G. Masson, 1885-89
Call number B5, S3

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: description des fossiles de la France, 1st serie - Animaux invertebres. Terrain Tertiaire, tome second: Echinides Eocenes; Paris: G. Masson, 1889-94
Call number B5, S3

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: description des fossiles de la France, 1st serie - Animaux invertebres. Terrain Tertiaire, tome second: Echinides Eocenes, Atlas; Paris: G. Masson, 1889-94
Call number B5, S3

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des fossiles de la France,1st serie - Animaux invertebres, Terrain Jurassique, Tome X - deuxieme partie, Echinides reguliers (atlas); Paris: G. Masson, 1880-1885
Call number B5, S5

Cotteau, G.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des fossiles de la France,1st serie - Animaux invertebres, Terrain Jurassique, Tome X - deuxieme partie, Echinides reguliers (texte); Paris: G. Masson, 1880-1885
Call number B5, S5

Cotton, C. A., Geomorphology of New Zealand : an introduction to the study of landforms. Part 1; Systematic. Wellington : Dominion Museum, 1922.
Call Number: 551.409931 COT. (B9, S3-5)

Cox, S. Herbert et.al; Mines and minerals: a guide for the Australian miner; Sydney: John Woods & Co., 1885
Call number B3, S5

Cox, Walter Gibbons; Artesian wells as a means of water supply; Brisbane: Sapsford & Co., 1895
Call number B1, S3

Credner, Hermann; Elemente der geologie; Leipzig: Verlag von William Englemann, 1872;
Call number B3, S2

Critchley, Parker; Resourceful Queesnland, its mines and minerals; Queensland: Australian Mining Standard, 1908
Call number B1, S3

Croll, James; Climate and time in their geological relations: a theory of secular changes of the earth's climate; London: David Bogue, 1875
Call number B1, S2

Croll, James; Climate and time in their geological relations: a theory of secular changes of the earth's climate; London: David Bogue, 1876
Call number B1, S2

Cross, Whitman; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey, professional paper 88: Lavas of Hawaii and their relations; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915
Call number B6, S3

Cross, Whitman; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey, professional paper 90-C: Dike rocks of the Apishapa Quadrangle, Colorado; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1914
Call number B6, S3

Curran, J. Milne (Rev.); The geology of Sydney and the Blue Mountains; a popular introduction to the study of geology; Sydney: Angys & Robertson, 1899
Call number B1, S4

Curtis, Story Joseph; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. VII: silver-lead deposits of Eureka Nevada; Washington: Government Printer, 1884
Call number B5, S6

Cushman, Joseph A.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 128-E: American species of operculina and heterostegina and their faunal relations, and A new species of orthophragmina from Louisiana; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1921; (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Cuthbertson, Walter Robert; Royal Geographic Society of Australasia (Victorian branch), vol. V, part II, Report of the Society's expedition to explore the highlands of South-eastern British New Guinea; Melbourne: Kemp & Boyce, 1887
Call number B2, S5

Cuvier, Georges; Recherches sur les Ossemens fossiles, vol. 1-10; Paris: ?, 1834
Call number B2, S2

Cuvier, Georges; Recherches sur les Ossemens fossiles: Atlas, tome premier; Paris: ?, 1836; (4th [Quatrieme] edition)
Call number B2, S2

Cuvier, Georges (Baron); Essay on the theory of the earth; Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1837; (5th edition)
Call number B3, S1

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