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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Lake, Phillip & Rastall, R.H.; A text-book of geology; London: Edward Arnold, 1910
Call number B7, S4

Langdon, J.; Aspects of FFT use in spectral analysis; Melbourne: School of Geology, University of Melbourne, 1972;
Call number B7, S5

Langtree, Charles; A descriptive catalogue of rocks, minerals and fossils illustrative of the geology, mineralogy and mining resources of Victoria; Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1886;
Call number B4, S3

Langville, H.D. et al; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey: professional paper 9, Forest conditions in the Cascade Range forest reserve, Oregon; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903;
Call number B6, S4

Lapworth, Charles, An intermediate text-book of geology; founded on the Introductory text-book of geology by David Page., Edinburgh : W. Blackwood, [1899?].
Call number: 550 LAPW. (B9, S3-5)

Laughton, A.M. & Hall, T.S.; British Association for the Advancement of Science, Australian Meeting 1914: Handbook to Victoria; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914
Call number B5, S5

le Conte, Joseph; Elements of geology: a text-book for colleges and for the general reader; New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1905 (5th edition, revised and partly rewritten by Herman le Roy Fairchild)
Call number B7, S4

Lehmann, Johannes; Untersuchen uber die Entstehung der Altkrystallinischen schiefergesteine, mit besonderer bezugnahme auf das sachsische granulitgebirge, erzegebirge, fichtegebirge, und bairische-bohmische grenzgebirge; Bonn: M. Hochgurtel, 1884
Call number B6, S5

Lehmann, Johannes; Untersuchen uber die Entstehung der Altkrystallinischen schiefergesteine, mit besonderer bezugnahme auf das sachsische granulitgebirge, erzegebirge, fichtegebirge, und bairische-bohmische grenzgebirge Atlas; Bonn: M. Hochgurtel, 1883
Call number B6, S5

Leichhardt, Ludwig; Beitrage zur geologie von Australien
Call number B3, S3

Leidy, Joseph; Contributions to the extinct vertebrate fauna of the western territories; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873
Call number B2, S4

Leidy, Joseph; Fresh water rhizopods of North America (United States Geological Survey of the territories); Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879
Call number B2, S4

Leith, Charles Kenneth; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XLIII: The Mesabi iron-bearing district of Minnesota; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903
Call number B7, S6

Lesquereux, Leo; Contributions to the fossil flora of the western territories, Part I: the cretaceous flora (United States Geological Survey of the territories); Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874
Call number B2, S4

Lesquereux, Leo; Contributions to the fossil flora of the western territories, Part II: the tertiary flora (United States Geological Survey of the territories); Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878
Call number B2, S4

Lesquereux, Leo; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XVII: the flora of the Dakota group - a posthumous work; Washington: Government Printer, 1891
Call number B5, S6

Leverett, Frank; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XLI: Glacial formations of the Erie and Ohio Basins; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902
Call number B7, S6

Leverett, Frank; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXXVIII: The Illinois glacial lobe; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899
Call number B7, S6

Leverett, Frank & Taylor, Frank B.; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. LIII: the pleistocene of Indiana and Michigan and the history of the Great Lakes; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1915
Call number B7, S6

Levy, A. Michel; Les mineraux des roches, l'application des methodes mineralogiques et chimiques a leur etude microscopique; Paris: Libraire Polytechnique, 1888
Call number B3, S1

Lewis, Charlton T. & Short, Charles; A Latin dictionary, founded on Andrew's edition of Freund's Latin dictionary, revised, enlarged and in great part rewritten; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1890
Call number B3, S1

Lewis, Henry Carvill; Papers and notes on the glacial geology of Great Britain and Ireland; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1894
Call number B3, S4

Lewis, William James, A treatise on crystallography Cambridge : University press, 1899.
Call number 548 LEW (B9, S3-5)

Lindahl, Josua (ed.); Geological Survey of Illinois, vol. VIII: Geology and Palaeontology (texte); Illinois: 1890
Call number B5, S5

Lindgren, Waldemar; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey, professional paper 73: the tertiary gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1911
Call number B6, S3

Lindstrom, G; Kongl svenska vetenskaps-akademiens handlingar, Bandet 19, No. 6: The silurian gastropoda and pteropoda of Gotland; Stockholm: Kongl. Boktryckeriet, 1884
Call number B5, S2

Litton, Robert, T. (ed.); Transactions of the Geological Society of Australasia, vol.1, part 1; Melbourne: Geological Society of Australasia, 1886
Call number B1, S3

Liversidge, A.; The minerals of New South Wales etc.; London: Trubner & Co., 1888
Call number B1, S4

Lock, Alfred G.; Gold: its occurrence and extraction; London: E. & F.N. Spon, 1882
Call number B3, S6

Lord, Eliot; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. IV: Comstock - mining and miners; Washington: Government Printer, 1883
Call number B5, S6

Lowry, J.W.; Tabular view of characteristic British fossils, stratigraphically arranged; London: Edward Stanford, 1907 (?)
Call number B7, S2

Lozano, Enrique Diaz; Anales del Instituto Geologico de Mexico, numero 1: diatomeas fosiles Mexicanas; Mexico: Departmento de Talleres Graficos de la Secretaria de Fomento, 1917
Call number B6, S2

Lucas, John; Mines and mineral statistics of New South Wales, and notes on the geological collection of the Department of Mines (also contains Clarke, W.B. (Rev.): Remarks on the sedimentary formations of N.S. Wales; Liversidge: Notes on the iron and coal deposits, Wallerawang, and on the diamond fields); Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1875
Call number B1, S4

Ludlow, William; Engineer Department, U.S. army: Report of a reconnaissance of the Black Hills of Dakota, made in the summer of 1874; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1875
Call number B3, S3

Lyell, Charles; Principles of geology; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants, considered as illustrative of geology, vol. I-III; London: John Murray, 1840
Call number B4, S3

Lyell, Charles (Sir); A manual of elementary geology; or, the ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments; London: John Murray, 1855
Call number B4, S3

Lyell, Charles (Sir); Elements of geology; or, The ancient changes of the earth and its inhabitants as illustrated by geological monuments; London: John Murray, 1865 (6th edition)
Call number B2, S5

Lyell, Charles (Sir); Geological evidences of the antiquity of man, with an outline of glacial and post-tertiary geology and remarks on the origin of species with special reference to man's first appearance on the earth; London: John Murray, 1873 (4th edition, revised)
Call number B7, S4

Lyell, Charles (Sir); Principles of geology; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants; London: John Murray, 1853
Call number B4, S3

Lyell, Charles (Sir); Principles of geology; or, The modern changes of the earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology, Vol. I-II; London: John Murray, 1872
Call number B2, S5

Lyell, Charles (Sir); The student's elements of geology; London: John Murraru, 1871
Call number B2, S5

Lyell, Charles (Sir); The student's elements of geology; London: John Murraru, 1885 (4th edition, revised);
Call number B2, S5

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