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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Nansen, Fridtjof; "Farthest North", being the record of a voyage of exploration of the ship Fram 1893-96 and of a fifteen months' sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johansen with an appendix by Otto Sverdrup, Captain of the Fram, Vol. 1 & 2 ; Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897
Call Number B2, S1

Nathorst, A.G.; Kongl svenska vetenskaps-akademiens handlingar, Bandet 19, No. 1: Aftryck af Medusor, I, sveriges kambriska lager; Stockholm: Kongl. Botryckeriet, 1881
Call Number B5, S2

Natural history of New York; New York: Appleton & Co. and Wiley & Putnam, 1848
Call Number B5, S1

Natural history of New York; Albany: Charles van Benthuysen & Sons, n.d.
Call Number B5, S1

Naumann, Carl Friedrich; Anfangsgrunde de krystallographie; Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung, 1854
Call Number B4, S3

Naumann, Carl Friedrich; Elements de mineralogy; Leipzig: Verlag von William Englemann, 1871
Call Number B3, S2

Newberry, John S.; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XIV: Fossil fishes and fossil plants of the Triassic rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut valley; Washington: Government Printer, 1888
Call Number B5, S6

Newberry, John Strong; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXXV: The later extinct floras of North America (a posthumous work); Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898
Call Number B7, S5

Newberry, John Strong; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XVI: the Paleozoic fishes of North America; Washington: Government Printer, 1889
Call Number B5, S6

Newberry, John Strong; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXVI: the flora of the Amboy clays; Washington: Government Printer, 1895
Call Number B7, S1

Newbigin, Marion I, An introduction to physical geography,... with numerous illustrations and maps. London : J. M. Dent & sons., Ltd., 1912.
Call number: 551.4 NEWB. (B9, S3-5)

Nicholas, William; The golden quartz reefs of Australia; London: The Mining Journal Offices, n.d.;
Call Number B2, S1

Nicholson, H. Alleyne; On the structure and affinities of the "Tabulate corals" of the palaeozoic period, with critical descriptions of illustrative species; Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1879
Call Number B7, S3

Nicholson, H. Alleyne; On the structure and affinities of the genus Monticulipora and its sub-genera, with critical descriptions of illustrative species; Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1881
Call Number B7, S3

Nicholson, Henry Alleyne; A manual of palaeontology for the use of students, with a general introduction on the principles of palaeontology, vol. I; Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1879
Call Number B2, S2

Nicholson, Henry Alleyne & Lydekker, Richard; A manual of palaeontology for the use of students, with a general introduction on the principles of palaeontology, vol. I; Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1879
Call Number B2, S2

Niggli, Paul; Ore deposits of magmatic origin, their genesis and natural classification; London: Thomas Murby & Co., 1929
Call Number B3, S5

Nikitin, W.W.; La methode universelle de Federoff Atlas; Paris et Liege: Librairie de Polytechnique, 1914
Call Number B6, S5

The northern territory of South Australia, annual report of the government resident; Adelaide: H.F. Leader, Government Printer, 1888;
Call Number B1, S4

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