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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Walcott, Charles Doolittle; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. LI, part I (text): Cambrian brachiopoda; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912
Call Number B7, S6

Walcott, Charles Doolittle; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. LI, part II (plates): Cambrian brachiopoda; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912
Call Number B7, S6

Walcott, Charles Doolittle; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXX: Fossil Medusae; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1898
Call Number B7, S5

Walcott, Charles Doolittle; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. VIII: Palaeontology of the Eureka district; Washington: Government Printer, 1884
Call Number B5, S6

Waldo, Frank; Modern meteorology: an outline of the growth and present condition of some of its phases; London: Walter Scott Ltd., 1893
Call Number B1, S2

Wall, G.P.; Report on the geology of Trinidad: Memoirs of the Geological Survey - Part I of the West Indian Survey; London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860 (lovely B&W lithographs)
Call Number B1, S2

Wallis, B. C., Australasia and New Zealand, London : Macmillan, 1924.
Call number: 919.4 WALL. (B9, S3-5)

Ward, Lester F. et.al.; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XLVIII, part I (text): Status of the mesozoic floras of the United States, second paper; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905
Call Number B7, S6

Ward, Lester F. et.al.; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XLVIII, part II (plates): Status of the mesozoic floras of the United States, second paper; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1905
Call Number B7, S6

Washington, Henry S.; Manual of the chemical analysis of rocks; New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1904 (1st Edition)
Call Number B3, S1

Washington, Henry Stephens; Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey: Chemical analyses of igneous rocks published from 1884 to 1900, with a critical discussion of the character and use of analyses; Washington: Govt Printing Office, 1903;
Call Number B6, S4

Watson, Sereno; Botany (United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel); Washington: Government Printing Office, 1871
Call Number; B2, S4

Watts, W.W.; The centenary of the Geological Society of London, celebrated September 6th to October 3rd, 1907; London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1909
Call Number; B1, S1

Wegelin, Caroli Henrici; Fragmenta silurica; Holmiae: Samson & Wallin, 1880
Call Number; B3, S6

Wegemann, Carroll; United States Department of the Interior, Professional Paper 108-D: Wasatch fossils in so-called Fort Union beds of the Powder river basin, Wyoming, and their bearing on the stratigraphy of the region; Washington: Govt Printing Office, 1917
Call Number; B5, S2

Whitaker, William (ed.); The geological record for 1875, an account of works on geology, mineralogy, and palaeontology published during the year; London: Taylor and Francis, 1877
Call Number B3, S1

Whitaker, William et. Al (ed.); The geological record for 1879, an account of works on geology, mineralogy, and palaeontology published during the year, with supplements for 1874-1878; London: Taylor and Francis, 1887
Call Number B3, S1

White, Charles; Contributions to the Palaeontology of Brazil; comprising descriptions of Cretaceous Invertebrate Fossils, mainly from the provinces of Sergipe, Pernambuco, Para and Bahia; c. 1888
Call Number B6, S1

White, David; Department of the Interior, Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXXVII: Fossil flora of the lower coal measures of Missouri; Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899
Call Number B7, S5

Whiteaves, J.F.; Geological and natural history survey of Canada: Palaeozoic fossils, vol. III, part I - fossils from the Guelph formation of Ontario; Montreal: Dawson Brothers, 1884
Call Number B7, S2

Whitelaw, H.S.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 12, the northern Bendigo and Raywood gold-field; Melbourne: Robt. S. Brain, 1904
Call Number B4, S6

Whitelaw, H.S.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 33, Hustler's Line or Reef, Bendigo; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914
Call Number B4, S6

Whitelaw, O.A.L.; Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Victoria: No. 13, the topography, geology and mines of the Wood's Point district; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1916
Call Number B4, S1

Whitelaw, O.A.L.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 37, the Mitta Mitta tin and gold field; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1915
Call Number B4, S6

Whitfield, Robert P.; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. IX: Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of the raritan clays and greensand marls of New Jersey; Washington: Government Printer, 1885
Call Number B5, S6

Whitfield, Robert Parr; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XVIII: Gasteropoda and Cephalopoda of the raritan clays and greensand marls of New Jersey; Washington: Government Printer, 1892
Call Number B5, S6

Whitfield, Robert Parr; Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, vol. XXIV: Mollusca and Crustacea of the miocene formations of New Jersey; Washington: Government Printer, 1894
Call Number B7, S1

Whitlelaw, H.S. & Baragwanath, W.; Victoria: Department of Mines, Bulletins of the Geological Society of Victoria, No. 29, Some Daylesford mines; Melbourne: Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1914
Call Number B4, S6

Whitney, J.D.; Geological survey of California: Geology, vol. I, Report of progress and synopsis of the field-work from 1860 to 1864; No publication details listed, 1865
Call Number B3, S3

Wichmann, A.; Geologische ergebnisse der siboga-expedition; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1925
Call Number B3, S6

Wiesner, Hans; Die Miliolideen der ostlichen Adria, Tafeln I-XX; Prague: Reubenec, 1923;
Call Number B5, S2

Wilkinson, C.S.; Report of progress of the Geological Survey of New South Wales; Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1876 (also contains: von Mueller, Ferdinand: Descriptive notes on the tertiary flora of New South Wales);
Call Number B3, S3

Wilkinson, H.L.; Deep leads of Victoria, or, The Cainozoic buried auriferous river deposits; No publication details listed, 1907
Call Number B2, S1

Williams, George Huntington., Elements of crystallography for students of chemistry, physics and mineralogy, London : Macmillan, 1899, c1890.
Call number: 548 WIL. (B9, S3-5)

Winterbottom, C.; Department of Chemistry, Bulletin no. 7: Gypsum and plaster of paris; Adelaide: R.E.E. Rogers, Government Printer, 1917
Call Number B4, S3

Wood, Harrie; Department of Mines, Sydney: Mineral products of New South Wales; Sydney: Charles Potter, Government Printer, 1887 (also contains: Wilkinson, C.S.: Notes on the Geology of New South Wales; MacKenzie, John: Description of the seams of coal worked in New South Wales)
Call Number B3, S3

Wood, Harrie; Mineral products of New South Wales; Sydney: Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1882 (also contains Wilkinson, C.S.: Notes on the geology of New South Wales; Liversidge, Archibald: Description of the minerals of New South Wales; Etheridge, Robert & Jack, Robert Logan: Catalogue of works, papers, reports and maps on the geology, palaeontology, mineralogy etc. etc. of the Australian continent and Tasmania)
Call Number B1, S4

Woodward, Arthur Smith, Outlines of vertebrate palaeontology for students of zoology, Cambridge : University Press, 1898.
Call number: 566 WOOD. (B9, S3-5)

Woodward, Arthur Smith; Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum, part I: containing the Elasmobranchii; London: British Museum, 1889
Call Number B7, S3

Woodward, Arthur Smith; Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum, part II: containing the elasmobranchii (acanthodii), holocephali, ichthyodorulites, ostracodermi, dipnoi, and teleostomi (crossopterygii and chondrostean actinopterygii); London: British Museum, 1891
Call Number B7, S3

Woodward, Arthur Smith; Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum, part III: containing the actinopterygian teleostomi of the orders chondrostei (concluded), protospondyli, aetheospondyli, and isospondyli (in part); London: British Museum, 1895,
Call Number B7, S3

Woodward, Arthur Smith; Catalogue of the fossil fishes in the British Museum, part IV, containing the actinopterygian teleostomi of the suborders isospondyli (in part), ostariophysi, apodes, percesoces, hemibranchi, acanthopterygii and anacanthini; London: Longmans & Co., 1901
Call Number B5, S2

Woodward, Henry; A catalogue of British fossil crustacea, with their synonyms and the range in time of each genus and order; London: British Museum, 1877
Call Number B7, S3

Woodward, Horace B.; The geology of England and Wales with notes on the physical features of the country; London: George Phillip & Son, 1887 (2nd edition)
Call Number B1, S5

Woodward, Horace B.; The history of the Geological Society of London; London: London Geological Society, 1907
Call Number B4, S3

Woodward, Horace B., History of geology, London : Watts, 1911.
Call number: 550.9 WOOD. (B9, S3-5)
Note: includes bookplate indicating copy was donated by Professor Skeats.

Woodward, S.P.; A manual of the mollusca, being a treatise on recent and fossil shells; London: Lockwood & Co., 1875 (3rd edition, with an appendix of recent and fossil conchological discoveries, by Ralph Tate)
Call Number B7, S3

Worthen, A.H. et. al (Geology) and Newberry, J.S. et. al (Palaeontology); Geological Survey of Illinois, vol. IV: Geology and Palaeontology; Illinois: Geological Survey of Illinois, 1870
Call Number B1, S2

Wright, C.S. et. al; British (Terra Nova) Antartic expedition 1910-1913: Glaciology; London: Harrison & Sons, 1922
Call Number B3, S6

Wright, G. Frederick; Man and the glacial period; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1893 (appendix on Tertiary man by Henry W. Haynes)
Call Number B3, S4

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