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| A Mortal Flame | [1] ALEXANDER, Alison A Mortal Flame: Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australian Romance Writer, 1874-1969. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1994. xii, 276pp, 55 illus, bibliography, index. Soft covers. New. #4381 $A7.95 |
| William Sorell in Van Diemen's Land | [2] Mickleborough, Leonie. William Sorell in Van Diemen's Land. Lieutenant-Governor 1817-1824. A Golden Age? Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2004. viii, 168pp, frontis & 8pp illus. Soft covers. Fine (new). ***The first in-depth examination of the administration of Tasmania's third governor, which tests the claim of Sorell's contemporary supporters that he presided over the ‘Golden Age’ of Van Diemen's Land and assesses his character, both public and private. #17601 $A10.00 |
| Word List | [3] PLOMLEY, N.J.B. A Word List of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Languages. Author & Government of Tasmania: Launceston, 1976. Limited to 1000 numbered copies. 486pp. Cloth with dustwrapper. This is a mint (i.e. new) copy - the book is still in print - but these copies are not signed as called for because at the time of publication only a portion of the print-run was signed, and they left it at that. The author is now deceased. ***Gathers together all of the known 19th century material on the languages of the Tasmanian tribes. #4352 $A44.00 |
| Weep in Silence | [4] PLOMLEY, N.J.B. Weep in Silence: a history of the Flinders Island Aboriginal Settlement with the Flinders Island Journal of George Augustus Robinson 1835-1839. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1987. Limited to 1500 copies. 1034pp, frontis, 33 plates (6 in colour, including 4 maps), contemporary coloured map of the settlement on eps. Original buckram, gilt decoration on the upper board, with dustwrapper. Fine (new copy). ***Completes the publication of Robinson's Van Diemen's Land journals begun in Friendly Mission (1966) - with much additional material. #4350 $A95.00 |
| An Imperial Disaster | [5] ROE, Michael. An Imperial Disaster: the wreck of George the Third. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2006. Limited to 750 copies; x, 294pp, coloured frontis, b&w illus. Cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. Fine (new). ***On 12 April 1835 the convict transport George the Third, with a cargo of over 200 prisoners, entered D’Entrecasteaux Channel in Van Diemen’s Land after a four-month voyage from England. That night it struck a submerged rock and became a total wreck. The death toll was 133, all but six of whom were convicts. Almost half the convicts who died were in hospital suffering scurvy, and had little chance of escape from the rapid flooding of the ship’s lower reaches. The circumstances of most of the other deaths never became clear, but one certain fact was that the ship’s military guard restrained the surviving convicts from coming onto deck, and that two men were shot dead in this exercise. The repercussions of this event were felt in both the colony and the mother country – it was indeed an imperial disaster. Official voices at the time tended to present the tragedy as an ‘unavoidable accident’, but Michael Roe argues that the wreck was not a matter of bad fortune; it was a consequence of the neglectful policies of the imperial and Vandiemonian governments. #20723 $A50.00 |
| The Usurper | [6] SPROD, Dan. The Usurper: Jorgen Jorgenson and his turbulent life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land, 1780-1841. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2001. Limited to 1000 copies, case-bound in buckram, with illustrated dustwrapper. 240x176mm. xiv, 718pp, 9 colour & 56 b/w illustrations, 5 maps. ***This important new book includes the full text of Jorgenson's hitherto unpublished account of the 'revolution' in Iceland in 1809, in which he was briefly installed as 'Protector' - and which was the source of the name by which he is known to Tasmania history - the 'Convict King'. Jorgenson's adventurous life - and his often unreliable accounting of it - are examined in meticulous detail. #12418 $A69.95 |
| Major Mitchell's Map | [7] ANDREWS, Alan E.J. Major Mitchell's Map 1834: the saga of the survey of the Nineteen Counties. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1992. Limited to 1000 copies. 402pp, illus, maps. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Fine (new). #5458 $A75.00 |
| Stapylton | [8] ANDREWS, Alan E.J. (ed) Staplylton: with Major Mitchell's Australia Felix expedition 1836. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1986. Limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. 296pp, illus, maps. Original blue linen, gilt decoration and titles, with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ***The previously unpublished journal of Mitchell's second-in-command, with commentary. #5460 $A75.00 |
| Kennedy | [9] BEALE, Edgar Kennedy: the Barcoo and beyond 1847. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1983. Limited to 750 numbered and signed copies. 292pp, illus, maps. Original decorated cloth with decorated glassine dustwrapper. Fine. #5457 $A75.00 |
| Proud Intrepid Heart | [10] SPROD, Dan Proud Intrepid Heart: Leichhardt's first attempt to the Swan River 1846-1847. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1990. Limited to 600 signed and numbered copies. Small 4to. 334pp., illus. Blue buckram with dustwrapper. Fine. ***With the previously unpublished journals of Leichhardt and his later critic Hovenden Hely, and 42 contemporary drawings by Conrad Martens, George Fairholme and expedition member John Mann. #5459 $A75.00 |
| [11] SPROD, Dan. Leichhardt's Expeditioners: in the Australian wilderness 1844-1845. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2006. Special issue of 25 copies only, numbered and signed by the author. Bound in half-leather and cloth, gilt titles. Large 8vo; x, 138pp, frontis, 8pp b&w illustrations, folding route map. #21884 $A220.00 |
| Leichhardt's Expeditioners | [12] SPROD, Dan. Leichhardt's Expeditioners: in the Australian wilderness 1844-1845. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2006. Limited to 750 copies only. Large 8vo; x, 138pp, frontis, 8pp b&w illustrations, folding route map. Case-bound with dustwrapper. Fine (new). #21775 $A50.00 |
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