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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Rammelsberg, C.F.; Ersters supplement zu dem Handworterbuch des chemischens theils der mineralogy; Berlin: verlag von C.G. Luderitz, 1843
Call Number B3, S2

Rammelsberg, C.F.; Handbuch der mineralchemie, zweite auflage; Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Englemann, 1875
Call Number B4, S3

Rammelsberg, C.F.; Handworterbuch des chemischen theils de mineralogie, erster abtheilung; Berlin: verlag von C.G. Luderitz, 1841
Call Number B3, S2

Rammelsberg, C.F.; Lehrbuch der krystallkunde oder anfangsgrunde der krystallographie, krystallophysik und krystallochemie; Berlin: Verlag von P. Jeanrenaud, 1852
Call Number B3, S1

Rammelsberg, C.F.; Repertorium des chemischen theils der mineralogie, ersters heft; Berlin: verlag von C.G. Luderitz, 1843
Call Number B3, S2

Ramsay, A.C.; The physical geology and geography of Great Britain: a manual of British geology; London: Edward Stanford, 1878
Call Number B1, S5

Ramsay, Alexander; The rudiments of mineralogy; London: Lockwood & Co., 1874
Call Number B3, S2

Ramsay, E. Pierson; Hints for the preservation of specimens of natural history; Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1887
Call Number B1, S3

Ramsay, E.P. (curator); Catalogue of a collection of fossils in the Australian Museum, with introductory notes; Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1883
Call Number B7, S3

Ran, Charles; U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region: Contributions to North American ethnology, vol. V: Observations on cup-shaped and other lapidarian sculptures in the Old World and in America; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881
Call Number B4, S2

Ranft, J.A.H. Theodore; Origin and formation of auriferous rocks and gold; a treatise embodying a theory based on observations which were made on the Australian goldfields; Sydney: Turner and Henderson, 1889
Call Number B1, S4

Raspe, R.E (written in German by Mr. Ferber); An account of some German volcanoes and their productions with a new hypothesis of prismatical basaltes; established upon facts, being an essay of physical geography for philosophers and miners; London: Lockyer Davis, 1776
Call Number B1, S1

Ratte, A. Felix; Descriptive catalogue of the general collection of minerals in the Australian Museum; Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1885
Call Number B1, S3

Read, H.H.; Rutley's Elements of mineralogy; London: Thomas Murray & Co., n.d.
Call Number B3, S2

Read, H.R.; Rutley's Elements of mineralogy; London: Thomas Murray & Co., n.d.;
Call Number B7, S4

Read, H.R.; Rutley's Elements of mineralogy; London: Thomas Murray & Co., n.d. 1936;
Call Number B7, S4

Read, H.R.; Rutley's Elements of mineralogy; London: Thomas Murray & Co., n.d.;
Call Number B7, S4

Reade, Thomas Mellard, The evolution of earth structure : with a theory of geomorphic changes, London : Longmans, Green, 1903.
Call number: 551.1 READ. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats.

Reade, T. Mellard; The origin of mountain ranges considered experimentally, structurally, dynamically and in relation to their geological history; London: Taylor & Francis, 1886
Call Number B3, S4

Reclus, Elisee (translated by B.B, Woodward, edited by Henry Woodward); The earth: a descriptive history of the phenomena of the life of the globe, Section I & II; London: Chaman and Hall, 1871
Call number B1, S1

Reclus, Elisee (translated by B.B, Woodward, edited by Henry Woodward); The ocean, atmosphere and life: being the second series of a descriptive history of the phenomena of the life of the globe, Sections I & II; London: Chapman and Hall, 1873;
Call number B1, S2

Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, vol. VI, 1898-1900; Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1901;
Call Number B5, S5

Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, vol. VI, part I, 1898; Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1898;
Call Number B5, S5

Records of the Geological Survey of New South Wales, vol. VI, part III, 1899; Sydney: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer, 1899
Call Number B5, S5

Reed, F. R. C., A handbook to the geology of Cambridgeshire : for the use of students, Cambridge : The University Press, 1897.
Call number: 554.2650202 REED. (B9, S3-5)

Reeves, Frank; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 165-D: Geology of the Big Snowy Mountains, Montana; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Reports of the Mining Surveyors and Registrars, quarter ending 31st March, 1864; Melbourne: John Ferres, 1864
Call Number B4, S5

Reuss, A.E.; Beitrage zur charakteristik der Kreideschichten in den Ostalpen, besonders im Gosauthale und am Wolfgangee; Wien: Kaiserlick-Koniglichen hof- und staatsdruckerei, 1854
Call number B6, S1

Richter, Th. (Cookesley, T. Hugo ed.); Plattner's manual of qualitative and quantitative analysis with the blowpipe; London: Chatto & Windus, 1875;
Call number B3, S2

Riggs, Steven Return; U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region: Contributions to North American ethnology, vol.IX: Dakota grammar, texts and ethnography; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893;
Call number B4, S2

Riggs, Steven Return; U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region: Contributions to North American ethnology, vol.VII: Dakota-English dictionary; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1890;
Call number B4, S2

Roemer, Friedrich Adolph; Die versteinerungen des Norddeutschen Oolithen Gebirges; Hannover: Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1836;
Call number B6, S1

Rogers, Arthur William. An introduction to the geology of Cape Colony; With a chapter on the fossil reptiles of the Karroo formation by R. Broom. London : Longmans, Green, 1909.
Call number: 556.8 ROGE. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats.

Rogers, G. Sherburne; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-A: Baked shale and slag formed by the burning of coal beds; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1917 (unbound paper)
Call number B5, S2

Rosenbusch, H. (Harry), Microscopical physiography of the rock-making minerals: an aid to the microscopical study of rocks. (Tr. and abridged for use in schools and colleges, by Joseph P. Iddings. Illustrated by 121 woodcuts and 26 plates of photomicrographs) New York, J. Wiley & Sons, 1903.
Call number: 552 ROSE. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats.

Rosenbusch, H.; Elemente der gesteinslehre; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung, 1910
Call number B3, S4

Rosenbusch, H.; Elemente der gesteinslehre; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Nagele) 1901
Call Number B3, S4

Rosenbusch, H.; Elemente der gesteinslehre; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Nagele) 1898
Call Number B3, S4

Rosenbusch, H.; Mikroskopische Physiographie der massigen gesteine; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch), 1877
Call Number B3, S4

Rosenbusch, H.; Mikroskopische Physiographie der mineralien und gesteine, ein hulfsbuch bei mikroskopischen gesteinsstudien; Stuttgart: E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshandlung (E. Koch), 1877
Call Number B3, S4

Ross, Clarence S. & Kerr, Paul F.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 165-E: the Kaolin minerals; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 (unbound paper)
Call Number B5, S2

Roth, Justus; Allgemeine und chemische geology, dritter band; Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1893
Call Number B3, S1

Roth, Justus; Allgemeine und chemische geology, erster band; Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1879
Call Number B3, S1

Roth, Justus; Allgemeine und chemische geology, zweiter band; Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz, 1887
Call Number B3, S1

Royal Commission on State coal mine, Wonthaggi, second report; Victoria, 1937
Call Number B6, S4

Royal Society of London; International Catalogue of Scientific Literature:
First Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, vol. XI; 1903
First Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, vol. XI; 1903
Second Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1904
Second Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1904
Third Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1905
Third Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1905
Fourth Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1906
Fourth Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1906
Fifth Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1907
Fifth Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1907
Sixth Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1908
Sixth Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1908
Seventh Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1909
Seventh Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1909
Eighth Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography 1910
Eighth Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology 1910
Ninth Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1912
Ninth Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1912
Tenth Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1912
Tenth Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1912
Eleventh Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography 1914
Eleventh Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1914
Twelfth Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1915
Twelfth Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1914
Thirteenth Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography, 1916
Thirteenth Annual Issue - K: Palaeontology, 1915
Fourteenth Annual Issue - G: Mineralogy, including petrology and crystallography,1917
London: Harrison & Sons,
Call Number B7, S1

Rubey, William W.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 165-A: Lithologic studies of fine-grained upper cretaceous sedimentary rocks of the Black Hills region; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1930 (unbound paper)
Call Number B5, S2

Russel, Israel Cook; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XI: Geological history of Lake Lahontan, a quartenary lake of northwestern Nevada; Washington: Government Printer, 1885
Call Number B5, S6

Russell, Israel C. (Israel Cook), River development as illustrated by the rivers of North America, London : Murray, 1898.
Call number: 551.48 RUSS. (B9, S3-5)

Russell, Israel C., Volcanoes of North America : a reading lesson for students of geography and geology, New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co., ltd., 1897.
Call Number: 551.21 RUSS. (B9, S3-5)

Rutley, Frank; Granites and greenstones: a series of tables and notes for students of petrology; London: Thomas Murray & Co., 1894
Call Number B3, S5

Rutley, Frank; Rock-forming minerals; London: Thomas Murby & Co., 1888,
Call Number B7, S4

Rutley, Frank; The study of rocks: an elementary text-book of petrology; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1888 (4th edition)
Call Number B3, S5

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