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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O'Harra, Cleophas C.; South Dakota School of Mines, Bulletin No. 13, Department of Geology: The White River Badlands; South Dakota: 1920
Call Number B5, S5

Official record containing introduction, catalogues, reports and recommendations of the experts, offical awards of the commissioners, and essays and statistics on the social and economic resources of the colony of Victoria; Melbourne: Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, 1873
Call Number B2, S1

Osann, A.; Elemente der gesteinslehre; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (Erwin Nagele), 1923
Call Number B3, S5

Osborn, Henry Fairfield; Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Monograph 55: The titanotheres of ancient Wyoming, Dakota and Nebraska, vol. I & II; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1929
Call Number B7, S2

Owen, David Dale; Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota; and incidentally a portion of Nebraska territory; Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852
Call Number B3, S3

Owen, Richard; A history of British fossil mammals and birds; London: John van Voorst, 1846
Call Number B7, S3

Owen, Richard; Memoir on the Megatherium, or giant ground-sloth of America; London: Williams & Norgate, 1861
Call Number B5, S4

Owen, Richard; Palaeontology: a systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations; Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black,1861
Call Number B2, S2

Owen, Richard; Palaeontology; or, A systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations; Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1860
Call Number B2, S4

Owen, Richard; Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the fossil reptilla of South Africa in the collection of the British Museum; London: British Museum, 1876
Call Number B5, S2

Owen, Richard (Sir); A history of British fossil reptiles v.I-IV London: Cassel & Co., 1849-84
Call Number B5, S2

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