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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Pabst, Victor J.R.; The Bendigo goldfield: resources of the "central area"; Melbourne: McCarron, Bird & Co., 1917
Call Number B2, S1

Packhard, A.S.; A monograph of the geometrid moths or phalaenidae of the United States (United States Geological Survey of the territories); Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876
Call Number B2, S4

Pacific Science Congress . Handbook for Melbourne meeting, 13th to 22nd August, 1923 at the University of Melbourne : Programme of arrangements with particulars of excursions, maps, and plans. Melbourne : Govt. Print., 1923.
Call number: 559.45 PAC. (B9, S3-5)

Page, David; Economic geology; or, Geology in its relation to the arts and manufactures; Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1874
Call Number B3, S5

Page, David; Geology for general readers; a series of popular sketches in geology and palaeontology; Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1870
Call Number B2, S5

Page, David; Introductory textbook of geology; Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1877
Call Number B4, S3

Palaeontographica, vol. II, vol. V-VII, vol. IX-XIII, vol. IX, vol. XV, ;
Call Number B5, S1

Parergones del Institutio Geologico de Mexico:
Tomo I (numeros 1-10); 1903-1906
Tomo II (numeros 1-10); 1907-1909
Tomo III (numeros 1-10); 1909-1911
Tomo IV (numeros 1-10); 1912-1913
Mexico: Imprenta y fototipia de la Secretaria de Fomento,
Call Number B6, S2

Park, James; The geology of New Zealand: an introduction to the historical, structural and economic geology; Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs Ltd, 1910
Call Number B1, S3

Park, James; A text-book of mining geology : for the use of mining students and miners, London : Griffin, 1906.
Call number: 553 PARK. (B9, S3-5)

Parker, Critchley P. ; Victoria: its mines and minerals; Melbourne & Sydney, 1899
Call Number B3, S3

Patterson, J.A.; The goldfields of Victoria in 1862; Melbourne: Wilson & MacKinnon, 1862
Call Number B2, S1

Peacock, R.A.; Saturated steam: the motive power in volcanoes and earthquakes: great importance of electricity; London: E. of N. Spon, 1882
Call Number B1, S1

Peckham, S.F.; Production, technology, and uses of petroleum and its products; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1884
Call Number B2, S4

Pepper, John Henry; The boy's book of metals, including personal narratives of visits to coal, lead, copper and tin mines; London: George Routledge & Sons, n.d.;
Call Number B3, S5

Petermanns, A.; Mitteilungen aus Justus Perthes' geographischer anstalt; Erganzungsheft Nr. 87: R. v. Lendenfeld, Forschungsreisen in den Australischen Alpen; Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1887
Call Number B3, S3

Petterd, W. F., Catalogue of the minerals of Tasmania [Hobart] : Mines Department, 1910 (Hobart : Government Printer).
Call number: 559.46 PETT.

Petterd, William F.; A monograph of the land shells of Tasmania; Tasmania: The "Launceston Examiner" Office, 1879
Call Number B2, S1

Phillips, J. Arthur; A treatise on ore deposits; London: MacMillan & Co., 1896
Call Number B3, S5

Phillips, John; Figures and descriptions of the palaeozoic fossils of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset; London: Longmans, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1841
Call Number B7, S2

Phillips, John; Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1871
Call Number B1, S4

Phillips, John; Illustrations of the geology of Yorkshire, or, a description of the strata and organic remains of the Yorkshire coast: accompanied by geological map, sections, and plates of the fossil plants and animals; York: Thomas Wilson & Sons, 1829
Call Number B2, S3

Phillips, John; Vesuvius; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1869
Call Number B1, S1

Phillips, John et al; Manual of geology, theoretical and practical, part I: Physical geology and palaeontology; London: Charles Griffin & Co., 1885
Call Number B7, S4

Phillips, John et al; Manual of geology, theoretical and practical, part II: stratigraphical geology and palaeontology; London: Charles Griffin & Co., 1885
Call Number B7, S4

Phillips, William; An elementary introduction to the knowledge of mineralogy; comprising some account of the characters and elements of minerals, explanations of terms in common use, descriptions of minerals, with accounts of the places and circumstances in which they are found, and especially the localities of British minerals; London: W. Phillips, George Yard, 1823
Call Number B3, S2

Piette, M.; Paleontologie Francaise: description des fossiles de la France, 1st serie - Animaux invertebres. Terrain Jurassique, tome III: Gastropodes, Atlas; Paris: G. Masson, 1891
Call Number B5, S3

Pinkerton, J.; Petrology: a treatise on rocks, vol. I & II; London: White, Cochrane & Co., 1811
Call Number B3, S4

Pisani, M.F.; Traite elementaire de mineralogy; Paris: Libraire de L'acadamie de Medecine, 1883
Call Number B3, S2

Pittman, E. F., The great Australian artesian basin and the source of its water, Sydney : Geological Survey of New South Wales, 1914.
Call number: 559.44 NEWS. (B9, S3-5)

Pittman, E. F. Problems of the artesian water supply of Australia : with special reference to Professor Gregory's theory, Sydney : William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1908.
Call number: 559.44 NEWS. (B9, S3-5)

Pittman, E. F., The composition and porosity of the intake beds of the Great Australian Artesian Basin, Sydney : W.A. Gullick, govt. printer, 1915.
Call number 559.44 NEWS. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Pittman, Edward F. The coal resources of New South Wales, Sydney : Govt. Printer, 1912.
Call number: 559.44 NEWS. (B9, S3-5)

Ponting, Herbert, The great white South; or, With Scott in the Antarctic: being an account of experiences with Captain Scott's South pole expedition and of the nature life of the Antarctic, by Herbert G. Ponting; with 164 photographic illustrations by the author, 11 by Captain Scott and others, a map & 2 drawings and an introduction by Lady Scott., London, Duckworth & co. [1924].
Call number: 559.9 PONT. (B9, S3-5)

Portlock, J.E.; Report on the geology of the county of Londonderry and parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh; Dublin: Andrew Milliken, 1843
Call Number B1, S4

Portlock, R.E. (Lieut.-Colonel); A rudimentary treatise on geology: for the use of beginners; London: John Weale, 1854
Call Number B2, S5

Powell, J.W. (in charge); U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region: Contributions to North American ethnology, vol. II, part I; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890
Call Number B4, S1

Prestwich, Joseph; Collected papers on some controverted questions of Geology; London, NY: MacMillan & Co., 1895
Call Number B1, S1

Prestwich, Joseph; Geology: chemical, physical and stratigraphical, vol. I & II; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1886
Call Number B2, S5

Priestley, R.E.; British (Terra Nova) Antartic expedition 1910-1913: Physiography (Robertson Bay and Terra Nova Bay regions); London: Harrison & Sons, 1923
Call Number B3, S6

Proceedings of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, vol. V, n. 11, 1910; Melbourne: Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, 1911;
Call Number B1, S3

Pumpelly, Raphael et.al.; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXIII: Geology of the Green Mountains in Massachusetts; Washington: Government Printer, 1894
Call Number B7, S1

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Quenstedt, Aug.; Hanbuch der Petresaftenfunde; Lubingen: Verlad der H. Lauppschen Buchhandlung, 1852
Call Number B2, S2

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