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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Gabb, W.M.; Geological Survey of California: Palaeontology, vol. II, cretaceous and tertiary fossils; 1869
Call number B3, S3

Galvez, Vincente; Anales del Instituto Geologico de Mexico, numero 3; Mexico: Talleres Graficos de la Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Obras Publicas, 1918
Call number: B6, S2

Gannet, Henry; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXII: A manual of topographic methods; Washington: Government Printer, 1893
Call number: B5, S6

Gardiner, C. I., An introduction to geology, London : G. Bell, 1914.
Call number: 550 GARD. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Gatschet, Albert Samuel; U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region: Contributions to North American ethnology, vol. II, part II - A dictionary of the Klamath language; the Klamath Indians of South Western Oregan; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890
Call number: B4, S1

Gaudry, Albert; Les enchainements du monde animal dans les temps geologiques mammiferes tertiaries; Paris: Librairie F. Savy, 1878
Call number: B7, S3

Gaudry, Albert; Materiaux pour l'histoire des temps quaternaries; Paris: Libraire F. Savy, 1876-88
Call number B2, S3

Gaudry, Albert & Fischer, P. et.al; Animaux fossiles du Mont Leberon (Vaucluse): etude sur les vertebres, etude sur les invertebres; Paris: Libraire de la Societie Geologique de France
Call number B5, S1

Geikie, Archibald; Elementary lessons in physical geology; London: MacMillan & Co. 1894;
Call number B1, S2

Geikie, Archibald, Sir, Landscape in history : and other essays, London : Macmillan and co., 1905.
Call Number: 550.4 GEIK. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Geikie, Archibald; Outlines of field-geology; London: MacMillan & Co., 1891 (4th edition)
Call number B3, S4

Geikie, Archibald; The ancient volcanoes of Great Britain, v. I; London: MacMillan & Co., 1897
Call number B1, S1

Geikie, Archibald; The scenery of Scotland: viewed in connection with its physical geology; London: MacMillan & Co., 1887 (2nd edition)
Call number B1, S2

Geikie, Archibald; Geological sketches at home and abroad; London: MacMillan & Co., 1882
Call number B3, S1

Geikie, Archibald (Sir); Classbook of geology; London: MacMillan & Co., 1906 (4th edition)
Call number B7, S4

Geikie, Archibald (Sir); Explanatory notes to accompany a new geological map of England and Wales; Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Co., 1897
Call number B1, S4

Geikie, Archibald (Sir); The founders of Geology; London: MacMillan & Co., 1897
Call number B1, S1

Geikie, Archibald (Sir); Text-book of geology, vol. I & II; London: MacMillan & Co., 1903
Call number B3, S4

Geikie, James, Earth sculpture, or, The origin of landforms, London : John Murray, 1898.
Call Number: 551.4 GEIK. (B9, S3-5)

Geikie, James; The great ice age and its relation to the antiquity of man; London: Edward Stanford, 1894 (3rd edition, largely rewritten)
Call number B3, S4

Geikie, James; Prehistoric Europe: a geological sketch; London: Edward Stanford, 1881
Call number B3, S4

Geinitz, Hanns Bruno; Die graptolithen, ein monographischer versuch zur beurtheilung der grauwackenformation in sachsen und den angrenzenden landerabtheilungen sowie der silurischen formation uberhaupt; Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Englemann, 1852
Call number B3, S6

Geological literature added to the Geological Society's library during the year ended December 31st, 1898; London: Geological Society, 1899
Call Number B6, S3

Geological literature added to the Geological Society's library during the year ended December 31st, 1899; London: Geological Society, 1900
Call Number B6, S3

Geological Society. Transactions of the Geological Society,
1st series, vol. II, 1814, vol. III, 1816, vol. IV, 1816; vol. V, 1819-21;
2nd series, vol. I, 1824; vol. II, 1829; vol. III, 1835; vol. IV, 1836; vol. V, 1840; vol. VI, 1842; vol. VII, 1845-56;
London: William Phillips.
Call Number B4, S2

Geological Society of Australia, Specialist Group in Geochemistry and Mineralogy and Australian National Committee for Geodynamics: Symposium on Tertiary and Quaternary Volcanism in E. Australia; Melbourne: School of Geology, University of Melbourne, 1973
Call Number B7, S5

Geological Survey of Canada: figures and descriptions of Canadian organic remains, Decade I; Montreal, 1859
Call Number B7, S2

Geological Survey of Canada: figures and descriptions of Canadian organic remains, Decade III; Montreal: John Lovell, 1858
Call Number B7, S3

Geological Survey of Canada: figures and descriptions of Canadian organic remains, Decade IV; Montreal: John Lovell, 1859
Call Number B7, S3

Geological Survey of Canada; Excursion in Eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces (Excursion A1.), Part 1; Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1913
Call Number B5, S5

Geological Survey of Canada; Descriptive catalogue of a collection of the economic minerals of Canada and of its crystalline rocks; Montreal: John Lovell, 1862
Call number B1, S2

Geological Survey of India; Catalogue of the organic remains belonging to the Echinodermata in the Museum of the Geological Survey of India; Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1865
Call number B1, S5

Geological Survey of Western Australia, General index to reports, 1870-1910., Perth [W.A.] : Government Printer, 1916
Call Number: B5, S4

Germar, Ernst Friedrich; Die versteinerungen des Steinkohlengebirges von Wettin und Lobejun im Saalkriege; Halle: C.A. Schwetschke und Sohn, 1844
Call number B6, S5

Gilbert, Grove Karl; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. I: Lake Bonneville; Washington: Government Printer, 1890
Call number B5, S6

Gillmore, Q.A.; Practical treatise on limes hydraulic cements, and mortars; New York: D. van Nostrand, 1883 (7th edition, revised and enlarged)
Call number B1, S4

Gilluly, James et.al.; Principles of geology; San Francisco: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1953
Call number B7, S4

Gilluly, James et.al.; Principles of geology; San Francisco: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1957
Call number B7, S4

Goes, A.; Kongl svenska vetenskaps-akademiens handlingar, Bandet 19, No. 4: the Reticularian rhizopoda of the Carribean Sea; Stockholm: Kongl. Botryckeriet, 1882
Call number B5, S2

The gold-fields of Victoria: Reports of the Mining Registrars for the quarter ended 31st March, 1885; Melbourne: John Ferres, 1885;
Call Number B4, S5

The gold-fields of Victoria: Reports of the Mining Registrars for the quarter ended 31st March, 1886; Melbourne: John Ferres, c.1886;
Call Number B4, S5

The gold-fields of Victoria: Reports of the Mining Registrars for the quarter ended 31st March, 1887; Melbourne: John Ferres, 1887; Call Number B4, S5

The goldfields of Victoria: Reports of the Mining Registras for the quarter ended 31st March, 1886; Melbourne: John Ferres, c.1886; Call Number B4, S4

Gold Fields Royal Commission of Enquiry; Report of the Royal Mining Commission appointed to enquire into the conditions and prospects of the gold fields of Victoria; Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1862-3
Call number B3, S3

Goldfuss, August; Petrefacta Germaniae tam ea, quae in Museo Universitas regiae borussicae fridericiae wilhemiae rhenanae, servantur quam alia quaecunque in museis hoeninghusiano, Muensreriano aliisque (2); Dusseldorf: Arnz & Comp., 1834-1840 (title also in German: Abbildungen und beschreibungen der petrefacten Deutschlands und der angranzenden Lander);
Call number B6, S4

Goldfuss, August; Petrefacta Germaniae tam ea, quae in Museo Universitas regiae borussicae fridericiae wilhemiae rhenanae, servantur quam alia quaecunque in museis hoeninghusiano, Muensreriano aliisque (3); Dusseldorf: Arnz & Comp., 1841-1844 (title also in German: Abbildungen und beschreibungen der petrefacten Deutschlands und der angranzenden Lander, unter Mitwirkung des Herrn Grafen Georg zu Munster);
Call number B6, S4

Goldschmidt, V.M.; Die kontaktmetamorphose im kristianiagebiet; Kristiania: Jacob Dybwad, 1911
Call number B3, S5

Goppert, H.R., Meyer, Herm v. & Bronn, H.G.; Index Palaeontologicus oder ubersickt der bis jetzt berkannten fossilen organismen; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbandlung und Drukerei, 1849
Call number B2, S1

Green, Miall, Thorpe, Rucker and Marshall (Professors); Coal: its history and uses; London: MacMillan & Co., 1878
Call number B1, S4

Gregory, J. W., Geography : structural, physical and comparative, London : Blackie and Son, 1908.
Call number: 551.4 GEOG. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Gregory, J.W.; Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria: No. 4, the Ballarat East goldfield; Melbourne: J. Kemp, Government Printer, 1907
Call number B4, S1

Gregory, J.W.; The dead heart of Australia: a journey around Lake Eyre in the summer of 1901-1902, with some account of the Lake Eyre basin and the flowing of wells in central Australia; London: John Murray, 1906
Call number B1, S3

Gregory, J.W. ; The geography of Victoria: historical, phycial and political; Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., 1903 (pub. date taken from preface)
Call number B1, S5

Gregory, J.W.; The Mount Lyell mining field, Tasmania, with some account of the geology of other pyritic ore bodies; Melbourne: Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, 1905
Call number B2, S1

Gregory, J.W.; The rift valleys and geology of East Africa; London: Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd., 1921
Call number B2, S5

Gregory, J.W.; The teaching of geography, expanded from a lecture; Melbourne: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd., n.d
Call number B3, S1

Gregory, J.W. (ed.); The structure of Asia; London: Methuen & Co., 1929
Call number B1, S5

Gregory, Richard, Sir, Elementary physiography : being a description of the laws and wonders of nature, London : J. Hughes, 1894.
Call number: 551.4 GREG. (B9, S3-5)

Griffith, Richard & McCoy, Frederick; A synopsis of the silurian fossils of Ireland; Dublin: University Press, 1846
Call number B4, S2

Groth, P.; Physikalische krystallographie und einleitung in die krystallographische kenntniss der wichtigeren substanzen; Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Englemann, 1876
Call number B4, S3

Groth, P.; Tabellarische ubersicht der einfachen mineralien, nach ihren krystallographisch-chemischen beziehungen geordnet; Braunschweig: Druck und verlag von Friedrich Viewed und Sohn, 1874
Call number B3, S2

Gustafson, J. K. Geological investigations in Broken Hill : final report, Broken Hill, N.S.W. : Central Geological Survey, 1939.
Call number: 559.449 GUST. (B9, S3-5)

Guppy, H.B.; Observations of a naturalist in the Pacific between 1896 and 1899: vol. 1, Vanua Levu, Fiji; London: MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 1903.
Call number B2, S1

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