DIGITAL BOOKS

There have been several projects to digitize older books that are no longer subject to copyright. Fortunately, these books include many old geology and mineralogy books. Unfortunately, they are digitized by students and contractors who are not familiar with the geologic literature and give the digital files incorrect, misleading, or cryptic names. This makes some digital reference books extremely difficult to locate, and it takes a lot of digging to find them. I have done the digging for you!

We have an entire digital library at our fingertips! All books are in PDF format. I have included the file size in the link so that you will know how large the file is and how long it will take to download.

Ron

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Pennsylvania Mineralogies

Genth (1875) Mineralogy of Pennsylvania (9 MB)

Eyerman (1889) Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, Part 1 (15 MB)

Eyerman (1911) Mineralogy of Pennsylvania, Part 2 (20 MB)

Gordon (1922) Mineralogy of Pennsylvania (43 MB)

First Geological Survey of Pennsylvania

Rogers (1836-1842) Annual reports 1 through 6 (33 MB)

Rogers (1858) Geology of Pennsylvania, volume 1 (90 MB)

Rogers (1858) Geology of Pennsylvania, volume 2, part 1 (87 MB)

Rogers (1858) Geology of Pennsylvania, volume 2, part 2 (50 MB)

Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania

D’Invilliers (1883) Geology of the South Mountain Belt, Berks County (13 MB)

Lesley (1883) Geology of Chester County (22 MB)

Hall (1885) Field Notes in Delaware County (10 MB)

Frazer (1880) Geology of Lancaster County (10 MB)

1883 Geology of Lehigh and Northampton County (9 MB)

Prime (1875) Brown Hematite Ore Ranges of Lehigh County (4 MB)

Prime (1878) Brown Hematite Deposits of the Siluro-Cambrian Limestones of Lehigh County (6 MB)

Lesley (1885) Geologic Hand Atlas (19 MB)
Two-page color geologic maps of each county

Lesley (1892) Summary of the Geology of Pennsylvania, volume 1 (44 MB)

Lesley (1892) Summary of the Geology of Pennsylvania, volume 2 (67 MB)

Lesley (1895) Summary of the Geology of Pennsylvania, volume 3, part 1 (27 MB)

Lesley (1895) Summary of the Geology of Pennsylvania, volume 3, part 2 (45 MB)

Dana’s System of Mineralogy

Dana (1837) System of Mineralogy First Edition (26 MB)

Dana (1844) System of Mineralogy Second Edition (29 MB)

Dana (1850) System of Mineralogy Third Edition (36 MB)

Dana (1854) System of Mineralogy Fourth Edition (66 MB)

Dana (1868) System of Mineralogy Fifth Edition (52 MB)

Dana (1882) Appendices to the Fifth Edition (18 MB)

Dana (1904) System of Mineralogy Sixth Edition, 1892 edition with Appendix (69 MB)

Other Mineralogy Books

Kirwan (1794) Mineralogy (18 MB)

Cleaveland (1816) Mineralogy, First Edition (35 MB)

Cleaveland (1822) Mineralogy, Second Edition (40 MB)

Robinson (1825) Catalogue of American Minerals (11 MB)

Other Books of Interest

Sowerby (1811) British Mineralogy (7 MB)
British minerals and color plates!

Sowerby (1817) Exotic Mineralogy (5 MB)
Non-British (exotic) minerals and color plates!