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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Tasmania. Dept. of Mines. Report on the Investigation of the Tin-bearing ores of the Renison Bell District by Joseph H. Levings, Tasmania: Government Printer, 1921.
Call Number B5, S4

Taylor, Thomas Griffith, Australian meteorology : a text-book including sections on aviation and climatology, Oxford ; Melbourne : Clarendon Press, (1920).
Call number: 559.4 TAY. (B9, S3-5)

Taylor, Thomas Griffith, A geography of Australasia, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1914.
Call Number: 559.4 TAYL. (B9, S3-5)

Teall, J.J. Harris; British petrography: with special reference to the igneous rocks; London: Dulau & Co., 1888
Call Number B2, S3

Tenison-Woods, J.E.; Palaeontology of New Zealand, Part IV: Corals and bryzoa of the Neozoic period in New Zealand; Wellington: G. Didsbury, Government Printer, 1880
Call Number B1, S3

Tennant, James; A stratigraphical list of British fossils; arranged under the principle divisions of the British strata with a few elementary remarks on their character and localities; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1847
Call Number B2, S3

Thomas, Cyrus; U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain region: Contributions to North American ethnology, vol. ?: A study of the manuscript Troano; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1882;
Call Number B4, S2

Thomson, C. Wyville (Sir) & Murray, John; Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, during the years 1873-76, Zoology, vol IX (text & plates); London: Longmans & Co., 1884
Call Number B5, S2

Three essays on Australian weather [comp. by] Hon. Ralph Abercromby ..., Sydney, F.W. White, printer, 1896.
Call number: 551.50994 THRE. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats

Tokyo University Science reports, second series, Geology, vol. 20; Japan, 1940;
Call Number B6, S3

Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. XI; Melbourne: Stillwell & Knight, 1874
Call Number B4, S3

Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, vol. XV; Melbourne: Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, 1879
Call Number B4, S3

Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, January - December 1859, vol. IV; Melbourne: Mason & Firth, 1860
Call Number B4, S6

Trask, Parker D.; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 186-H: Inferences about the origin of oil as indicated by the composition of the organic constituents of sediments; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1937 (unbound paper)
Call Number B5, S2

Travis, James, for Department of Mines; Geological Survey of Victoria (New Series), No. I, Monthly progress report, April, 1899; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, 1899
Call Number B4, S6

Travis, James, for Department of Mines; Geological Survey of Victoria: Report of Progress No. X; Publication details not listed, 1899
Call Number B3, S6

Truscott, S.J.; The Witwatersrand goldfields, banket & mining practice, with an appendix on the banket of the Tarwa goldfield, West Africa; London: MacMillan & Co., 1902
Call Number B1, S4

Tschermak, Gustav; Lehrbuch der mineralogie, zweite verbesserte auflage; Wien: Alfred Holder, 1885
Call Number B4, S3

Tuomey, M. & Holmes, F.S.; Pleiocene fossils of South-Carolina, containing descriptions and figures of the Polyparia, Echinodermata and Mollusca; Charleston: Russel & Jones, 1857
Call Number B6, S1

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Ulrich, E.O. & Smith, W.S. Tangier; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey: The lead, zinc and fluorspar deposits of western Kentucky; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905
Call Number B6, S3

Ulrich, George H.F.; Geology of Victoria: A descriptive catalogue of the specimens in Industrial and Technological Museum (Melbourne) illustrating the rock system of Victoria; Melbourne: Mason, Firth & McCutcheon, 1875
Call Number B2, S1

United States Geographical Surveys; Annual report upon the geographical surveys of the one-hundredth Meridian in the States and Territories of California, Oregon, Nevada, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montan, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming; being an appendix NN of the annual report of the chief of Engineers for 1877; Washington: Government Printing Office, n.d.
Call Number B1, S2

Upham, Warren; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXV: the glacial lake Agassiz; Washington: Government Printer, 1895
Call Number B7, S1

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