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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Fath, A.E.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 128-C: The origin of the faults, anticlines, and buried "granite ridge" of the northern part of the mid-continent oil and gas field; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Feistmantel, Ottokar; Palaeontologische Beitrage: III Palaeozoische und mesozoische Flora des ostlichen Australiens; Cassel: Verlag von Theodor Fischer, 1878
Call number B3, S3

Ferguson, W.H.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 18, the Blackwood-Trentham gold-field; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1906
Call number B4, S6

Field, Richard M., The principles of historical geology from the regional point of view, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1933.
Call number: 551.7 FIEL. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Filhol, M.H.; Recherches sur les phosphorites du quercy, etude des fossiles qu'on y recontre et specialement des mammiferes, seconde partie; Paris: G. Masson, 1877
Call number B5, S4

Findlay, Alexander, The phase rule and its applications, together with an introduction to the study of physical chemistry, by Sir William Ramsay, London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1904.
Call number: 541.3 FI. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Fischer, Paul; Manuel de conchyliologie et de paleonotologie conchyliologique ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossils; Paris: Librairie F. Savy, 1887
Call number B7, S3

Fisher, Osmond, Physics of the earth's crust, London : Macmillan and Co., 1889.
Call number: 551.15 FISH. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Flores, Teodoro; Anales del Instituto Geologico de Mexico, numero 5: El tesquesquite del lago de texcoco; Mexico: Tipografia de la Oficina Impresora de la Secretaria de Hacienda, 1918;
Call number B6, S2

Fontaine, William Morris; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. VI: Contributions to the knowledge of the older mesozoic flora of Virginia; Washington: Government Printer, 1883
Call number B5, S6

Fontaine, William Morris; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XV-Plates: the Potomac or younger mesozoic flora; Washington: Government Printer, 1889
Call number B5, S6

Fontaine, William Morris; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XV-Text: the Potomac or younger mesozoic flora; Washington: Government Printer, 1889
Call number B5, S6

Foord, Arthur H.; Geological and natural history survey of Canada: Contributions to the micro-palaeontology of the cambro-silurian rocks of Canada; Ottowa: Maclean, Roger & Co., 1883
Call number B7, S3

Ford, William E.; Third appendix to the sixth edition of Dana's System of Mineralogy; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1915
Call number B7, S4

Foster, Clement Le Neve, Sir, A text-book of ore and stone mining, London : Charles Griffin, 1904.
Call number: 553 FOST. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Fouque, F. & Levy, A. Michel; Memoirs pour a l'explication de la carte geologique detaillee de la France: Mineralogie micrographique, roches eruptives Francaises; Paris: A. Quantin, 1879
Call number B4, S2

Fouque, F. & Levy, A. Michel; Mineralogie micrographique roches eruptives Francaises (Memoires pour servir a l'explication de la carte geologique detaillee de la France); Paris: Imprimerie de A. Quantin, 1879
Call number B2, S3

Frazier, S. M., Secrets of the rocks : or, the story of the hills and the gulches : a manual of hints and helps for the prospector and miner, Denver : Hall & Williams, 1905, c1904.
Call number: 553 FRAZ. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Fuchs, C.W.C & Danby, T.W.; Practical guide to the determination of minerals by the blowpipe; London: Field & Tuer, n.d.;
Call number B4, S3

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