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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Katz, Frank J.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-I: Stratigraphy on southwestern Maine and southeastern New Hampshire; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917 (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Katz, Frank J. & Keith, Arthur; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-B: the Newington moraine, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917 (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Kayser, Emanuel, Text book of comparative geology; translated and edited by Philip Lake. London : S. Sonnenschein & co. ; New York : Macmillan & co., 1893.
Call number: 551.7 KAYS. (B9, S3-5)

Keith, Arthur; The antiquity of man; London: Williams & Norgate, 1915
Call number B7, S3

Kidston, Robert; Catalogue of the palaeozoic plants in the Department of Geology and Palaeontology, British Museum (natural history); London: British Museum, 1886
Call number B7, S3

King, Clarence; Geological exploration of fortieth parallel (Professional papers of the Engineer Department, U.S. Army, no. 18); no publication details recorded, c. 1867-1869
Call number B2, S4

King, Clarence; Systematic geology (United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel); Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878
Call number B2, S4

King, W. et al; An old chapter of the geological record with a new interpretation; or, Rock-metamorphism (especially the methylosed kind) and its resultant imitations of organisms; London: John van Voorst, 1881
Call number B3, S5

Kingsley, Charles; Town geology; London: Daldy, Ibister & Co., 1878
Call number B2, S5

Kinns, Samuel; Moses and geology; or, The harmony of the Bible with science; London: Cassel, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882 (3rd edition);
Call number B3, S1

Kitson, A.E.; Bulletins of the Geological Survey of Victoria, No. 40, the Jumbunna and Powlett Plains district, South Gippsland; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1917
Call number B3, S6

Kitson, A.E.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 40, the Jumbunna and Powlett plains district, South Gippsland; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1917
Call number B4, S6

Kloden, K.F.; Die versteinerungen de Mark Brandenburg, insonderheit diejenigen, welche sich in den Rollensteinen und Blocken der sudbaltischen Ebene finden; Berlin: C.G. Luderitz, 1834
Call number B2, S2

Kluge, Karl Emil; Uber die Ursachen der in den Jahren 1850 bis 1857 stattgefunden. Erd-Erschatterungen und die Beziehungen deselben zu den Vulkanen und zur atmosphere; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbandlung un Drukerei, 1861
Call number B1, S1

Knowlton, F.H.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-F: A fossil flora from the frontier formation of southwestern Wyoming; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917 (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Koninck, L.; Recherches sur les fossiles palaeozoiques de la nouvelle-galles du sud (Australie) Texte; Bruxelles: F. Hayez, 1876
Call number B7, S2

Krause, F.M.; An introduction to the study of mineralogy for Australian readers; Melbourne: George Robertson & Co., 1896
Call number B3, S2

Krefft, G.; Australian vertebrata, fossil and recent; no publication details recorded
Call number B7, S3

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