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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Daintree, Richard; Victoria Geological Survey: report on the geology of the district of Ballan, including remarks on the age and origin of gold, etc.; Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1866
Call number B5, S2

D'Altonm E. & Burmeister, H; Der Fossil Gavial von boll in Wurtemberg, mit bezugnahme auf die ledenden krokodilinen; Halle: Ch. Graeger, 1854
Call number B6, S4

Dana, Edward S. & Ford, William E.; Second appendix to the sixth edition of Dana's System of Mineralogy; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1909
Call number B7, S4

Dana, Edward Salisbury; A text-book of mineralogy, with an extended treatise on crystallography and physical mineralogy; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1882
Call number B7, S4

Dana, Edward Salisbury; A text-book of mineralogy, with an extended treatise on crystallography and physical mineralogy; New York: Wiley & Sons, 1905
Call number B5, S6

Dana, Edward Salisbury; A text-book of mineralogy, with an extended treatise on crystallography and physical mineralogy; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1922; (3rd edition, revised and enlarged by William E. Ford)
Call number B7, S4

Dana, Edward Salisbury; The system of mineralogy of James Dwight Dana (1837-1868): Descriptive mineralogy; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1900; (6th edition)
Call number B7, S4

Dana, James D.; Characteristics of volcanoes: with contributions of facts and principles from the Hawaiian Islands; London: Sampson, Low & Co., 1890
Call number B1, S1

Dana, James D.; Corals and coral islands; London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Low and Searl, 1875 (2nd edition)
Call number B1, S2

Dana, James D.; Manual of geology: treating of the principles of the science, with special reference to American geological history; New York: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., c. 1880 (3rd edition)
Call number B7, S5

Dana, James D.; Manual of mineralogy including observations on mines, rocks, reduction of ores, and the applications of the science to the arts; London: Trubner & Co., 1853 (5th edition)
Call number B3, S2

Dana, James Dwight; A system of mineralogy; descriptive mineralogy, comprising the most recent discoveries; London: Trubner & Co., 1868 (5th edition)
Call number B3, S2

Darton, N.H.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-C: A comparison of palaeozoic sections in southern New Mexico; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917 (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Darwin, Charles, On the structure and distribution of coral reefs : also geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America, visited during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle; with a critical introduction to each work by John W. Judd. London ; Melbourne : Ward, Lock, 1890.
Call number: 550.3 DARW. (B9, S3-5)

Darwin, Charles; Geological Observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle; London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1891 (3rd edition)
Call number B1, S3

Darwin, Charles; The structure and distribution of coral reefs; London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1889 (3rd edition)
Call number B3, S4

Darwin, Charles, On the structure and distribution of coral reefs; also geological observations on the volcanic islands and parts of South America visited during the voyage of HMS Beagle, London, Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., 1890, (introduction by John W. Judd)
Call Number: B1, S1

Daubeny, Charles; A description of active and extinct volcanoes; with remarks on their origin, their chemical phenomena and the character of their products as determined by the condition of the earth during the period of their formation, being the substance of some lectures delivered before the University of Oxford, with much additional matter; London: W.H. Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street & Joseph Parker, 1826
Call Number B1, S1

Daubree, A.; Etudes synthetiques de geologie experimentale; Paris: Libraire des corps des ponts et chaussees, des mines et des telegraphes, 1879 (presented by the author, through Prof. McCoy)
Call number B3, S4

David, T. W. Edgeworth, Geology of the Commonwealth, Melbourne : Government Printer, [1914?].
Call number: 559.4 DAVI. (B9, S3-5)

Davies, D.C.; A treatise on metalliferous minerals and mining; London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1892 (5th edition, revised and much enlarged by his son, E. Henry Davies);
Call number B3, S5

Davis, William Morris (Deutsch bearbeitet von A. Ruhl); Die erklarende beschreibung der Landformen; Leipzig: Verlaf und Druck von B.G. Teubner, 1824 (diagrams);
Call number B1, S1

Davis, William Morris (ed. Douglas Wilson Johnson); Geographical essays; Boston: Ginn & Co., 1909 (B&W diagrams)
Call number B1, S1

Davison, Charles, A study of recent earthquakes, London, The Walter Scott publishing co., ltd., 1905.
Call number: 551.22 DAVI. (B9, S3-5)

Davison, Charles, The origin of earthquakes, Cambridge : The University Press, 1912.
Call number: 551.22 DAVI. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats.

Dawson, J. William; Handbook of Geology for the use of Canadian students; Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1889
Call number B1, S2

Dawson, J.W.; Air-breathers of the coal period: a descriptive account of the remains of land animals found in the coal formation of Nova Scotia, with remarks on their bearing on theories of the formation of coal and of the origin of species; Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1863
Call number B7, S3

Dawson, J.W.; Geological Survey of Canada: the fossil plants of the erian (devonian) and upper silurian formations of Canada, part II; Montreal: Gazette Printing Company, 1882
Call number B7, S3

de Fromentel, L.E. Gourdan; Paleontologie Francaise: Terrain Cretace, tome VIII: Zoophytes (texte); Paris: 1863-1887
Call number B5, S5

de Fromentel, L.E. Gourdan & de Ferry, H.B.A.; Paleontologie Francaise ou description des fossiles de la France, 1st serie - Animaux Invertebres: Terrain Jurassique, tome XII, Coralliaires; Paris, 1865-1869
Call number B6, S2

de Koninck, L.; Description des animaux fossiles qui se trouvent dans le terrain carbonifere de Belgique, planches; Paris: P. Bertrand, 1842-1844
Call number B3, S3

de Koninck, L.; Description des animaux fossiles qui se trouvent dans le terrain carbonifere de Belgique, texte; Paris: P. Bertrand, 1842-1844
Call number B3, S3

de Koninck, L.; Recherches sur les animaux fossiles, premiere partie; Liege: H. Dessain, 1847
Call number B5, S2

de Koninck, L.; Recherches sur les fossiles palaeozoiques de la nouvelle-galles du sud (Australie) Atlas; Bruxelles: F. Hayez, 1876-1877
Call number B3, S6

de Koninck, L. & le Hon, H.; Recherches sur les crinoides du terrain carbonifere de la Belgique; Bruxelles: F. Hayez, 1854
Call number B5, S2

de la Beche, Henry T.; Geological manual; London: Charles Knight, 1833 (3rd edition, considerably enlarged)
Call number B3, S4

de la Beche, Henry T.; Report on the geology of Cornwall, Devon and west Somerset; London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1839
Call Number B1, S5

de la Beche, Henry T.; The geological observer; London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1853 (2nd edition, revised)
Call number B3, S2

de Lapparent, A.; Traite de geologie: geologie proprement dite (page 1289 a 2045); Paris: Masson et Cie., 1906 (5th edition)
Call number B7, S4

de Lapparent, A.; Traite de geologie: geologie proprement dite (page 593 a 1288); Paris: Masson et Cie., 1906 (5th edition)
Call number B7, S4

de Lapparent, A.; Traite de geologie: phenomenes actuels; Paris: Masson et Cie., 1906 (5th edition)
Call number B7, S4

de Launay, L.; La science geologique, ses methodes, ses resultats - ses problemes, son histoire; Paris: Librairie de Armand Colin, 1905
Call number B7, S4

de Loriol, M.P.; Paleontologie Francaise ou description des fossiles de la France, 1st serie - Animaux Invertebres: Terrain Jurassique, tome XI - deuxieme partie: Crinoides; Paris: G. Masson, 1884-1889
Call number B6, S2

de Loriol, M.P.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des fossiles de la France,1st serie - Animaux invertebres, Terrain Jurassique, Tome XI - premiere partie, Crinoides; Paris: G. Masson, 1882-1884
Call number B5, S5

de Loriol, M.P.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des fossiles de la France,1st serie - Animaux invertebres, Terrain Jurassique, Tome XI - premiere partie, Crinoides (atlas); Paris: G. Masson, 1882-1884
Call number B5, S5

de Loriol, M.P.; Paleontologie Francaise: Description des fossiles de la France,1st serie - Animaux invertebres, Terrain Jurassique, Tome XI - premiere partie, Crinoides (texte); Paris: G. Masson, 1884-1889
Call number B5, S5

Dean, Bashford; Fishes, living and fossil: an outline of their forms and probable relationships; New York: Middleton & Co., 1895
Call number B5, S2

Denton, William; Our planet, its past and future; or, Lectures on geology Boston: Willliam Denton, n.d.,
Call number B7, S5

Department of Mines, Sth Australia: Geological Survey of South Australia, bulletins 9, 20, 21, 26, 28, 31; 1922, 1942, 1944, 1951, 1951 (x2), 1953 (bundle 4)
Call Number B6, S3

Department of Mines, Sth Australia: Geological Survey of South Australia, reports of investigations, no. 2-27 (m. 3,4, 18, 23-26); 1955-1966 (bundle 5)
Call Number B6, S3

Department of Mines, Sth Australia: Mining Review no. 104 - 119 (m. 116-118); 1956-1963 (bundle 3)
Call Number B6, S3

Department of Mines & Agriculture; Records of the geological survey of New South Wales, vol. VII, 1900-1904; Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1905
Call number B1, S4

Department of the Interior: Palaeontological bulletin no. 3; 1938 (bundle 1);
Call Number B6, S3

Descriptive catalogue of the specimens of rocks of Victoria in the Industrial and Technological Museum, Melbourne; Melbourne: Fergusson & Mitchell, 1894
Call Number B2, S1

Dick, W.H.; A mountain of gold: origin, history, geological features, latest developments, etc., of the famous Mount Morgan mine with a complete description of the chlorination process and new machinery; and estimates of value and permanence; Brisbane: Woodcock & Powell, 1889
Call number B1, S4

Die Miliolideen der ostlichen Adria, mit 20 Tafeln; Prague: Reubenec, 1923;
Call Number B5, S2

Diener, Carl & Douville, Henri; Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India; Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains during the progress of the Geological Survey of India, vol. V, Nos. I, II, and III; Calcutta: Government of India, 1925
Call number B5, S1

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome cinquieme: Atlas, contenant les bryozoaires; Paris: Victor Masson, 1850-52
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome cinquieme: contenant les bryozoaires; Paris: Victor Masson, 1851-54
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome premier: Terrains cretaces; Paris: 1840
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome premier: Terrains Oolitiques ou Jurassiques; Paris: 1842
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome quatrieme: Atlas, contenant les Brachiopodes; Paris: Victor Masson, 1851
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome quatrieme: Terrains cretaces; Paris: 1848-51
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome second: Terrains cretaces; Paris: 1842
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome second: Terrains Jurassiques; Paris: Victor Masson, 1850
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome second: Terrains Jurassiques, Atlas; Paris: Victor Masson, 1850
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome sixieme: contenant les Echinodermes; Paris: Victor Masson, 1854-55
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome sixieme: Terrains cretaces, Atlas; Paris: Victor Masson, 1854-55
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, Alcide; Paleontologie Francaise: description zoologique et geologique de tous les animaux mollusques et rayonnes fossiles de France, tome troisieme:Terrains cretaces; Paris: 1843
Call number B5, S3

D'Orbigny, M. Alcide; Prodome de palaeontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques & rayonnes, faisant suite au cours elementaire de palaeontologie ey de geologie stratigraphiques, premiere volume; Paris: Victor Masson, 1850
Call number B2, S2

Dorsey, James Owen; U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region: Contributions to North American ethnology, vol.VI: the Legina language; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890
Call number B4, S2

Dunker, Wilh; Palaeontographica: beitrage zur naturgeschichte der vorwelt, sechszehnter band; Cassel: Theodor Fischer, 1866-1869
Call number B6, S1

Dunker, Wilh. & von Meyer, Hermann; Palaeontographica: beitrage zur naturgeschichte der vorwelt, Herausgegeben, dritte band; Cassel: Theodor Fischer, 1854
Call number B6, S2

Dunker, Wilh. & von Meyer, Hermann; Palaeontographica: beitrage zur naturgeschichte der vorwelt, Herausgegeben, erster band; Cassel: Theodor Fischer, 1851
Call number B6, S2

Dunker, Wilh. & von Meyer, Hermann; Palaeontographica: beitrage zur naturgeschichte der vorwelt, vierter band; Cassel: Theodor Fischer, 1856
Call number B6, S1

Dunker, Wilhelm & von Meyer, Hermann; Palaeontographica, beitrage zur Naturgeschichte der Vorwelt; Cassel: Verlag von Theodor Fischer, 1852
Call number B5, S1

Dunn, E. J., Pebbles, Melbourne : George Robertson & Co., [1911] (Melbourne : D.W. Paterson Co.).
Call number: 552 DUNN. (B9, S3-5)

Dunn, E.J.; Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria: No. 6, the Buffalo Mountains; Melbourne: J. Kemp, Government Printer, 1908
Call number B3, S6

Dunn, E.J.; Notes on the diamond fields; Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co., 1871
Call number B1, S4

Dunn, E.J.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 27, Australites; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, acting Government Printer, 1912
Call number B4, S6

Dunn, E.J.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Special reports - notes on the glacial conglomerate, Wild Duck Creek; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1892
Call number B4, S5

Dutton, C.E.; U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region: report on the geology of the high plateaus of Utah, with atlas; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1880
Call number B3, S3

Dutton, Clarence; United States Geological Survey: Atlas to accompany Tertiary history of the Grand Canon [sic] district; Washington: Government Printer, 1882
Call number B6, S5

Dutton, Clarence; United States Geological Survey: Tertiary history of the Grand Canon [sic] district, with atlas; Washington: Government Printer, 1882
Call number B5, S6

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