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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The "Indicator" series on gold mining: no. 3 the Creswick field; 1902?;
Call Number B6, S3

The industrial progress of New South Wales, being a report on the intercolonial exhibition of 1870, at Sydney; Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1871
Call Number B1, S5

Instituto Geologico de Mexico, Boletin num. 10-34, 36, 38, 41, 1898-1913, 1918, 1922, 1923
Mexico: Talleres Graficos de la Nacion, Oficina tipografica de la Secretaria de Fomento, Imprenta y fototipia de la Secretaria de Fomento, Poder Ejecutivo Federal,
Call Number B5, S4

Ireland, A.; Geography and history of Oceania, comprising a detailed account of the Australian colonies and a brief sketch of Australasia, Malaysia, Polynesia, and Antarctica, for the use of teachers and advanced pupils; Tasmania: W. Fletcher, 1865 (2nd edition)
Call number B1, S3

The iron ores of Great Britain, Part 1 (Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and the Museum of Practical Geology); London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1856
Call Number B1, S4

Irving, Roland Duer; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. V: the copper-bearing rocks of Lake Superior; Washington: Government Printer, 1883
Call number B5, S6

Irving, Roland Duer & van Hise, Charles Richard; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XIX: the Penokee iron-bearing series of Michigan and Wisconsin; Washington: Government Printer, 1892
Call number B5, S6

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