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[1] ALEXANDER, Alison. Governors' Ladies: the wives and mistresses of Van Diemen's Land governors. THRA: Hobart, 1987. 1st ed. 188pp, illustrated. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Fine. ***Signed by the author. #8051 $A65.00 |
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[2] ALLAN, J. Alex. The Old Model School: its history and romance 1852-1904. Melbourne University Press/Oxford University Press: Melbourne, 1934. 1st ed. 225pp, frontis & 23 illus. Original red cloth, the spine a trifle faded. Very good. ***Victoria's first teacher-training institution, and for many years its leading primary school. #24727 $A55.00 |
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[3] ANDREWS, Lynne Antarctic Eye: the visual journey. Studio One: Hobart, 2007. Large square 4to. 271pp, lavishly illustrated with 159 colour plates and b&w photographs. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ***An intensive art-historical account of the imagery of Antarctica, documenting over 200 years and ranging from the historical and botanical to the modernist and postmodern. #24780 $A170.00 |
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[4] BARRETT, W.R. History of Tasmania to the death of Lieutenant-Governor Collins in 1810. Printed by H.T. Whiting: Hobart, [1936.]. 116pp. Cloth-backed papered boards. Slight age-browning of edges, otherwise a fine copy. Scarce. ***The author was Canon Chancellor of St David's Cathedral and Warden of Christ College. #5229 SOLD |
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[5] Beattie, J.W. Port Arthur: the British Penal Settlement in Tasmania. Glimpses of its stirring history. Printed at 'The Examiner' and 'Weekly Courier' Offices [for J. W. Beattie]: Launceston, nd [1920.s?] Compiled and edited from authentic sources by J. W. Beattie, The Port Arthur Museum, Hobart. 8vo. 64pp, well illustrated. Staple-bound in the original pictorial soft covers. Very good. ***The main text is David Burn's 'Excursion to Port Arthur in 1842'. There are a number of other sections - short illustrated pieces on the site's main features, and some extracts from official records. Price of 2/- on the front cover, advertisement for railtrips to National Park [Mt Field] inside front cover, and for the Lufra Hotel at Eaglehawk Neck. #24647 $A55.00 |
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[6] BIRD, David S. J.A. Lyons: the 'Tame Tasmanian'. Appeasement and Rearmament in Australia, 1932-39. Australian Scholarly Publishing: Melbourne, 2008. Large 8vo. 430pp, illustrated. Soft covers. #24857 $A45.00 |
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[7] BODEN, Donald C. The Other Side of the Hill: a biography of David William Simpson Scholes, OAM, DFC. Stevens Publishing: Launceston, 2006. Square 4to. 222pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Morocco backed pictorial papered boards. Fine (new). ***The late doyen of Tasmanian fly-fishing writers. #24849 $A60.00 |
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[8] BONWICK, James. The Lost Tasmanian Race. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington: London, 1884. 1st edition. Ferguson 7253. [ii] (Notices of Mr Bonwick's works), x, 216pp, frontis & 11 other plates. Original illustrated cloth, extremities a trifle rubbed. A little spotting to the endpapers and edges, otherwise a nice clean copy. Owner's name at head of title page. Very good. ***A 'popularised' reworking of the author's The Last of the Tasmanians (1870). #6039 $A300.00 |
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[9] BREEN, Shayne & Dyan Summers. Aboriginal Connections with Launceston places. Launceston City Council: Tasmania, 2006. [Stories in Stone: 1] 4to. 129pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine. ***Two chapters cover the period up to the 1940s; the balance being edited extracts with 20 Aboriginal Tasmanians who have spent much of their lives in Launceston. #24821 $A40.00 |
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[10] BROWN, George Deas. Haughton Forrest 1826-1925. Malakoff: Melbourne, 1982. #546 of 1500 numbered copies (of which the first 150 were leather-bound and boxed). Large 4to. 183pp, 36 colour plates & other illustrations, lists of exhibitions and collections. Original cloth with dustwrapper (slight fading of spine and a couple of patches of the upper and lower faces). Top corners of both boards a trifle bumped. Very good. WITH: Masterpiece Gallery, Hobart: 'Haughton Forrest 1826-1925.' Catalogue of an exhibition 24 April - 17 May 1987. 12pp, plus wrappers; 59 items, 58 illustrations (15 in colour). #7398 $A550.00 |
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[11] BROWN, P.L. (ed) Clyde Company Papers. [complete in 7 volumes] Oxford University Press: London, 1952-1977. Seven volumes: all first editions. Vol 1: Prologue, 1821-35 [1941]; xx, 240pp. Vol II: Settlement, 1836-40 [1952]; xxii, 482pp. Vol III: Depression, 1841-45 [1958]; xxvii, 669pp. Vol IV: Recovery, 1846-50 [1959]; xviii, 620pp. Vol V: Dislocation, 1951-53 [1963]; xviii, 644pp. Vol VI: Consolidation - Dissolution, 1845-58 [1968]; xxiv, 662pp. Vol. VII: Epilogue, 1859-73 [1971]; xxix, 567pp. Each volume with frontis (some in colour), many plates and maps, appendices and index; endpaper maps to Vols III, V, VI & VII. All volumes in the original buckram, but the previous owner discarded the dustwrappers. The books are in fine condition, no fading of the spines. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper of Vol I, and a gift inscription on the facing free endpaper. ***The voluminous papers of the Scottish-Tasmanian pastoral syndicate which operated in Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District/Victoria. #24668 $A300.00 |
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[12] BROWN, P.L. (ed) The Narrative of George Russell of Golf Hill, with Russellania and selected papers. OUP: Oxford, 1935. 1st edition. Line drawings by Stirling Paterson. Large 8vo. [xvi], 469pp, ep maps and 4 others, 14 plates, folding double-page genealogical table, numerous small decorations. Original brown buckram with dustwrapper (some soiling, mostly on rear; slight chipping at head of spine with 1cm loss, now in protective sleeve). Very good. #4464 $A200.00 |
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[13] Captain, The [T.G. Ford] Inhumanity: historical tales from Millbank Prison (England) to Norfolk Island, Macquarie Harbour, Port Arthur. The last of the Tasmanian Aborigines, and other stories. J. Walch & Sons: Hobart, 1932. 114pp, illustrated, advertisements. Staple-bound in the original lettered wrappers, as issued, slight sunning of spine and rust stains from the staples just spotting the wrappers near the spine. Very clean inside. Very good. #24654 SOLD |
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[14] CLUNE, Frank. Last of the Australian Explorers: the story of Donald Mackay. Angus & Robertson: Sydney, 1942. 1st edition. xiv, 304pp, frontis portrait & 49 illustrations, endpaper maps. Original biege cloth, extremities a trifle rubbed, head of spine a little more so, slight mark half way up spine. Owner's bookplate on verso of front free endpaper and gift inscription on half-title. In recent mylar dustwrapper. A good copy of a scarce book. #10928 $A220.00 |
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[15] COBHAM, Sir Alan, K.B.E. Twenty Thousand Miles in a Flying Boat: my flight round Africa. Harrap: London, 1930. 1st ed. 249pp, 46 b&w illustrations. Original cloth. Top edges tinted blue, others uncut edges and faintly spotted. Owner's name. Very good. #24666 $A60.00 |
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[16] COLE, E.W. (ed) Cotton Growing in Australia. E.W. Cole, Book Arcade: Melbourne, nd. 263pp, frontis portrait of the editor, 7 b&w plates (one folding, one double-page) and other test illustrations; 14pp publisher's adverts. Original blue cloth, gilt titles and decorations on the upper board. Small mark at foot of fore-edges, otherwise a nice clean copy. Very good. #24880 $A60.00 |
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[17] COLLINS, David. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners etc., of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. Libraries Board of South Australia: Adelaide, 1971. (Australiana Facsimile Editions, no. 76.) See Ferguson 263 & 350. 2 volumes. 4to. [xx], xxxviii, 620pp, maps & illus & xvi, 336pp, maps, illus (several coloured). Original cloth, spine title label. Small bookseller's price sticker at lower corner of front paste-down endpaper of both volumes. Very good to fine. ***The most important of the books published by the officers who came with the First Fleet. Collins was the Judge-Advocate of the infant colony, and was later the first Lieut-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. The second volume includes George Bass's account of his voyage with Matthew Flinders through the strait which now bears his name, and which established that Van Diemen's Land was an island (chapters XIV--XVI). #15344 $A225.00 |
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[18] CONIGRAVE, C. Price. North Australia. Jonathan Cape: London, 1941. Reprint (first publ 1936). (The Life and Letters Series no. 109.) 319pp, frontis 11 b&w plates, folding map. Original cloth, faded around the edges, the boards a trifle bowed. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper and gift inscription on ffep. Clean inside. A good to very good copy. ***European exploration of the region and its early colonial history; Darwin; Melville & Bathurst Islands, Aborigines; fishing, pearling, mineral and pastoral industries. #24753 $A75.00 |
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[19] COOLEY, Thomas C.T. A History of Trains and Trams in Tasmania. Government Printer: Hobart, 1987. 1st ed. 184pp, illustrated. Original cloth with dustwrapper (darkened patches left by price stickers on rear, and front blurbless flap). Very good. ***By the author of Railroading in Tasmania (1961). #9565 $A65.00 |
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[20] COOLEY, Thomas C.T. Railroading in Tasmania 1868-1961. Government Printer: Hobart, 1961. 1st ed. 158pp, full-page map, 202 plates at rear. Original cloth (no dustwrapper). Very good to fine. #15511 $A100.00 |
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[21] DAVIS, John King. With the "Aurora" in the Antarctic 1911-1914. Andrew Melrose: London, 1919. 1st edition. Spence 354; Renard 421; Rosove 87/A1. Small 4to; xxii, 184pp, 1 folding & 7 full-page maps, full-page plan of the ship, 68 text maps, many other illustrations. Original blue buckram with gilt ship illustration on front board & spine lettering, extremities slightly rubbed, large round dull stain at foot of lower board, but overall in good to very good condition. Edges a little yellowed, half-title quite foxed, otherwise clean inside. The frontis has slightly worn fore- and foot-edges and a new tissue guard, the front free endpaper is a neat and sympathetic replacement. A good to very good copy. ***Fully signed by the author on the front paste-down endpaper, dated November 1922. Davis was captain of "Aurora," on Mawson's first Antarctic expedition. #24436 $A1100.00 |
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[22] DENISON, Sir William Varieties of Vice-Regal Life. Longmans, Green and Co: London, 1870. 2 volumes. 1st edition. [I] xvi, 514pp, folding coloured map of Tasmania. [II] viii, 446pp, folding map of Southern India (Madras Presidency). Contemporary half maroon calf and marbled boards, extremities a trifle rubbed; spines gilt with raised bands (a little sunned); marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Vol 2 has an owner's name on verso of half-title and light spotting at lower corners/edges of first few leaves, tiny piece missing from lower corner of title-page. A very nice set. Very good. ***Denison was Lt-Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1847-55. An opinionated military engineer, he argued for the continuation of transportation and resisted the establishment of self-government. His account is largely composed of letters, as often as not written by his wife, and contains much valuable information, presented in an unusual and lively manner. #24713 $A650.00 |
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[23] DENNISON, C.J. Here's Cheers: a pictorial history of hotels, taverns and inns of Hobart. Hobart City Council: Hobart, 2008. Oblong 4to. 266pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine (new copy). ***Grouped by city street, plus the waterfront and Sandy Bay, with location maps. Each establishment is illustrated with an old photograph or contemporary print/sketch and a small picture of the building or site today, and brief historical information. #24574 $A38.50 |
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[24] DODGE, Ernest S. The Polar Rosses. John and James Clark Ross and their explorations. Faber: London, 1973. 1st ed. 260pp, 8 plates, 3 maps. Original cloth with dustwrapper. The cloth a trifle flecked along the edges. Very good. #6045 $A55.00 |
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[25] DOORLY, Captain Gerald S. The Songs of the "Morning". Bread and Cheese Club: Melbourne, 1943. 1st edition. Not in Spence; Renard 455. 4to. 18, [14]pp (musical scores), frontis, full-page illustration. Stapled in the original stiff wrappers (as issued), extremities slightly rubbed but a very nice clean copy. Very good. #6876 $A150.00 |
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[26] DREW, Philip. Leaves of Iron. Glenn Murcutt: pioneer of an Australian architectural form. Law Book Company: Sydney, 1985. Photography by Max Dupain. Square 4to. 148pp, b&w and colour photographs, line illustrations. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Top edges a trifle spotted. Very good. #16459 $A150.00 |
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[27] EZ Co A Brief Guide to the Risdon Plant of the Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd, March 1949. EZ Company: Melbourne, 1949. 10pp, folding 'general flow sheet' of the works & folding aerial photograph of the works. Stapled in the original wrappers, as issued, owner's name at head of front cover. Very good. #24979 $A25.00 |
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[28] FELTON, Heather. Ticklebelly Tales and other stories from the people of the Hydro. Hydro Tasmania: Hobart, 2008. Large thick (and heavy) 4to. 512pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ***A social history of Tasmania's 20th century hydro-industrialisation, told from the viewpoints of employees, contractors and families of the Hydro-Electric Commission. #24722 $A75.00 |
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[29] FELTON, Heather. Ticklebelly Tales and other stories from the people of the Hydro. Hydro Tasmania: Hobart, 2008. ***200 numbered copies, signed by the author.*** Large thick (and heavy) 4to. 512pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Original cloth-textured papered boards with matching slip-case. Fine (new). #24723 $A150.00 |
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[30] FIRTH, M.J. Native Orchids of Tasmania. Author: Devonport (Tas), 1965. 90pp, b&w photographs, line illustrations. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Very good to fine. Owner's name on ffep. #4616 $A55.00 |
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[31] GIBLIN, R.W. The Early History of Tasmania. I. The Geographical Era, 1642-1804 II. The Penal Settlement Era, 1804-28. Methuen & MUP/OUP: London & Melbourne, 1928.& 1939 1st editions. [I] xiv, 342pp, 12 charts (10 folding), 3 plates. [II] Ed. by J.D.A. Collier. xxx, 710pp. Both volumes in original cloth, the spine of Vol II a little faded and rubbed at head and tail. Both volumes have the owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, and a gift inscription. Very good. ***Vol. II was published posthumously. #4642 $A325.00 |
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[32] GILMOUR, Don The Tasmanian Trout. Author?: Launceston, 1973. 1st edition. 300pp, coloured frontis, b&w photographs & maps, endpaper maps. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (a little faint soiling, now in protective sleeve). Slight crease along fore-edge of pp193-4 (one of the plates). Very good. #7129 $A165.00 |
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[33] GRAHAM, John Ryrie. A Treatise on the Australian Merino. Clarson, Massina & Co: Melbourne, 1870. 102pp. Soft covers, title on the upper (and a very slight vertical crease), spine and edges slightly sunned. Very good. Ferguson 10044 - but this a secondary binding, without the advertisement leaves. #24889 $A200.00 |
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[34] GREEN, Anne. A Model Municipality: places of management, mentoring and medicine in Launceston. Launceston City Council: Tasmania, 2007. [Stories in Stone: 3] 4to. 248pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine. ***Examines the city's institutions and their buildings in the fields of administration, health & welfare, education and learning, religion and mentoring #24820 $A50.00 |
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[35] GREEN, Anne. The Home of Sports and Manly Exercise: places of leisure in Launceston. Launceston City Council: Tasmania, 2006. [Stories in Stone: 2] 4to. 120pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine. #24822 $A40.00 |
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[36] HACKETT, Daniel & Brad Harris. In Season Tasmania: a year of fly fishing highlights. H2 Media: Launceston, 2007. Special issue: limited to 90 copies, signed by both authors. Oblong 4to. 120pp, lavishly illustrated in colour. Green cloth with coloured photographic inlays on the upper board, with matching slip-case. Fine. #24993 $A375.00 |
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[37] HINE, Judith J. The Evolution of a Country Town: New Norfolk, Tasmania. unpublished: Hobart, 1966. Bachelor of Arts Honours thesis (Geography) submitted to the University of Tasmania, March 1966. 98, [17]pp, 15 figures/maps, folding table. Duplicated typescript (printed rectos only) in plain thesis binding, some offsetting associated with the binding in gutters of both endpapers. Author's letter to the New Norfolk Municipality loosely inserted. Very good. #24729 $A85.00 |
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[38] HOWITT, William. Land, Labour and Gold; or, Two Years in Victoria with visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land. Lowden: Kilmore (Vic), 1972. (Historical Reprints Series.) Large 8vo. 482pp, index. Original cloth with dustwrapper. The d/w and edges slightly soiled, but a good to very good clean copy. #24862 $A85.00 |
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[39] HRA: HISTORICAL RECORDS OF AUSTRALIA [complete set in 33 volumes]. Library Committee of the Commonwealth Parliament: Canberra, 1914.-25. Series I: Governors' Despatches to and from England (26 volumes, 1914-25). Series III: Despatches and Papers relating to the Settlement of the States (6 volumes, 1921-23). Series IV: Legal papers (1 volume, 1922) 33 volumes in total, all published (at the time, see note re Series III below). The projected Series II was never issued. Original navy blue half-leather, not entirely uniform in shade but mostly so, slight rubbing of extremities on some volumes, all very clean inside and scarcely used. Each volume bears the small stamp of the National Library of Australia on both paste-down endpapers, except for Vol II which has the stamp of the Prahran Public Library at the head of the title-page and in the margins of a few other pages; Vol XVIII has an owner's signature. A very good set. ***Series III was resumed in 1997 with the publication of Volume VII, covering despatches and papers relating to Van Diemen's Land in 1828; this is now out of print but we can supply copies of Volumes VIII ($135) and IX ($185). More volumes are planned. #6094 $A4500.00 |
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[40] Hydro-electricity: The Hydro-Electric Power of Tasmania: a description of the Great Lake hydro-electric development, and of the Tasmanian electricity supply system. Tait Publishing Co.: Melbourne, 1925. Published under authority, Hydro-Electric Department of Tasmania. 4to. [vi], 66pp, well illustrated (including 5 fold-out plans, 60 figures, full-page map). Stapled in soft covers, the overhanging edges slightly chipped, owner's name at head of the upper. A nice clean copy. Very good. #24860 $A85.00 |
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[41] JUDD, H.W. Pictorial Guide to the West Coast of Tasmania. H.W. Judd: Zeehan, 1908. 1st edition. Published under the auspices of the Western Tasmanian Tourist Association. Oblong 8vo. 135pp (pagination includes wrappers), with many advertisements. Stapled and bound in red cloth-covered printed wrappers. Some flecking of cloth and the papered inside of both covers has a marked crease near the spine, short clean tear to lower edge of the first leaf closed with a small piece of tape, nonetheless in good to very good condition. Inscription in upper margin of advert on first page. #6985 $A95.00 |
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[42] KELLY, A.C. The Vine in Australia / Wine-Growing in Australia. David Ell Press: Sydney, 1980. Two volumes in slip-case. #405 of 1000 copies. Introduction and biography by Dennis Hall and Valmai Hankel. 215pp & 234pp; both books with new indexes prepared for this edition. Original cloth-textured papered boards, in pictorial slip-case. Very good. #24881 $A100.00 |
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[43] Marine Board of Mersey: The Marine Board of Mersey: Jubilee Year 1868-1928. Devonport, Tasmania. Marine Board of Mersey: Devonport (Tas), [1928.] Oblong 4to. 32pp, 10 full-page illustrations, folding coloured map at rear. Original wrappers (very slight creases to the upper). Owner's name writ small inside front wrapper. Very good. #4874 $A110.00 |
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[44] Marine Board: Marine Board of Hobart: one hundred years, 1858-1958. [The Board: Hobart, 1958.] Oblong 8vo. 40pp, illustrated. Stapled in the original wrappers. Very good. #11767 $A45.00 |
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[45] Mawson's Huts Foundation: Mawson's Huts: the birthplace of Australia's Antarctic heritage. Allen & Unwin: Sydney, 2008. Large square 4to. 192pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (new). #24865 $A95.00 |
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[46] MAY, W.L. A Check-List of the Mollusca of Tasmania [and] An Illustrated Index of Tasmanian Shells, supplementary to the Check List issued 1921. Government Printer: Hobart, 1921.& 1923 2 parts (items). 114pp & 100pp, 47 plates (with 20 or so shells illustrated on each). Original grey wrappers, owner's surname in ink at top corner of the front covers and the title-pages. Very clean inside. A very good set. #24631 $A110.00 |
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[47] MELVILLE, Henry. Australasia and Prison Discipline. Chas Cox & J. Effingham Wilson: London, 1851. Dedicated by permission to the Right Honorable Earl Grey. 8vo; xiv, 392pp, frontis map (Storm Bay, Hobart & Tasman's Peninsula), plate of Government House, Sydney (not noted by Ferguson). Later maroon half-morocco and cloth boards, raised bands and gilt titles/devices. Top edges gilt, others lightly spotted. A little faint foxing in a few places but a nice clean copy. Very good. ***Ferguson 12467. In two main sections (1) Australasia & Emigration, dealing with each of the colonies; (2) Prison Discipline, with a description of the Vandemonian system and 'suggestions for obviating the difficulties attending the transportation of convicts' - and an appendix on land regulations and the aborigines. #24749 $A450.00 |
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[48] MEREDITH, Louisa Anne. My Home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years. John Murray: London, 1852. 2 volumes. Ferguson 12506. xiv, [ii], 274pp, [2pp book adverts], frontis, title-page vignette, 8 other illus (one full-page); vi, [ii], 276pp, frontis, title-page vignette, 7 other illus (one full-page). Original green blind-stamped cloth, the spine sunned, extremities rubbed with a little fraying at head Vol II, more so Vol I (now in clear mylar wrappers). Owner's bookplate on the front paste-down endpapers. The uncut edges are a little soiled, two of the signatures in Vol I sitting slightly proud but binding solid, a few small spots on the first few leaves of Vol I, otherwise a nice clean set in the original binding. #4868 $A725.00 |
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[49] MEREDITH, Louisa Anne. Waratah Rhymes for Young Australia. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son: London, 1891. With photo-etched illustrations by Mrs E.M. Boyd, Mr R. Andre, and the Author. Small 4to. 64pp, b&w frontis and illustrated throughout (4 by LAM), decorated endpapers. Original cloth-backed papered boards, decorated with waratah motif (colour) on the upper, singing frog on the lower. Head and tail of the spine, and the corners, a little rubbed, a few light spots of discolouration on the lower board but the illustrated covers very clean. Owner's name/address writ small at lower corner of verso of front free endpaper, otherwise an exceptionally clean copy. Without a doubt, the nicest copy we have seen. Scarce. ***The verses first appeared in the author's Grandmamma's Verse Book for Young Australia (1878, unillustrated). #17426 $A1750.00 |
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[50] Mining: The Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company Limited. Mines and Works at Mount Lyell, Tasmania. The Company: Queenstown (Tas), March,1958. Promotional booklet, oblong (140x190mm). Stapled in wrappers. 72pp, 2 maps, plan of mine, well illustrated with photographs. Owner's name at top corner of front wrapper. A nice clean copy. Very good. #17570 $A45.00 |
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[51] O'BRIEN Eris M. The Dawn of Catholicism in Australia. Angus & Robertson: Sydney, 1928. 2 volumes. 231pp, colour frontis & 235pp, b&w frontis. Index. Original cloth. Offsetting on front and back free endpapers, minor spotting on front edges, slight sunning of spines. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpapers. Good to very good. #24738 $A100.00 |
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[52] O'BRIEN Eris M. The Foundation of Catholicism in Australia: Life and Letters of Archpriest John Jooseph Therry. Angus & Robertson: Sydney, 1922. 2 volumes. xx, 176pp & viii, 177-389pp, colour frontis and other plates and illustrations. Index. Original cloth. Offsetting on front and back free endpapers, minor spotting on front edges, slight sunning of spines and a small mark near the foot of each spine (small sticker removed?). Owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpapers. Very good. #24745 $A75.00 |
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[53] PHILP, J.E. Whaling Ways of Hobart Town. J. Walch & Sons: Hobart, [1936.] 96pp, illus. Original green cloth with coloured illustration (the same as the front wrapper of soft-cover issue) laid down on front panel. A little light soiling of the cover illustration, extremities a trifle rubbed, offsetting on endpapers, but a nice clean copy. Very good. ***Scarce, especially so in the hard covers. #7411 $A200.00 |
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[54] PINK, Kerry. And Wealth for Toil: a history of north-west and western Tasmania 1825-1900. Harris & Co.: Burnie, 1990. 1st edition. 4to. 388pp, well illustrated, general & biographical indexes, addenda loosely inserted. Original cloth, gilt titles, with dustwrapper. Owner's name top corner of front paste-down endpaper. Fine. #24855 $A150.00 |
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[55] POYNTER, James. The Search in Summer. Angus & Robertson: Sydney, 1965. Illustrated by Max Angus. 95pp. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Trifling stain on first few pages. Very good. ***Children's adventure story: 'the Foster family had always enjoyed their holidays at Sleepy Hollow, a pleasant little place on the coast of Tasmania, but this time something more exciting...was in store for them. Soon they were aboard the 'Water Witch' heading for lonely Barren Cove on a wild-goose chase set off by an old story and a strange discovery'. #24968 $A35.00 |
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[56] RAE ELLIS, Vivienne. Louisa Anne Meredith: a tigress in exile. Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1979. 1st ed. 276pp, 26 illustrations (four in colour). Original cloth, embossed in gilt with the LAM crest and floral decorations, with dustwrapper. Owner's name at foot of front paste-down endpaper. A fine copy. #22390 $A100.00 |
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[57] ROE, Michael. Albert Ogilvie and Stymie Gaha: world-wise Tasmanians. Parliament of Tasmania: Hobart, 2008. Large 8vo. 274pp, illustrated. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ***The book is based around (and reproduces in full) Premier A.G. Ogilvie & Health Minister Dr J.F. Gaha's report on their travels in Europe in 1935 under the auspices of the Empire Parliamentary Association. Their visit included Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Russia; as well as Britain where they attended King George V's silver jubilee. Ogilvie returned convinced of the inevitability of war and famously called for Australia and its allies to 'blacken the skies with aeroplanes'. Roe's account gives prominence to the international themes - even suggesting that Ogilvie, had he lived, would have made a better wartime leader than Curtin - but there is also much in the way of biographical material (personal and political) on both men. #24774 $A40.00 |
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[58] ROWCROFT, Charles. The Perils and Adventures of Mr William Thornley. One of the pioneer settlers of Van Diemen's Land 1817-1830. J. Walch & Sons: Hobart, [c.1890.] (Walch's Shilling Series of Old Tasmanian Books, No. IV.) 192pp. Original wrappers, spine sunned, owner's name at top corner. Good to very good. ***First published in 1843 under the title 'Tales of the Colonies, or The Adventures of an Emigrant'. Rowcroft lived in VDL from 1821 to 1824, where he was a pastoralist and magistrate in the Bothwell district. See Ferguson 15140, but this is a later issue of the original sheets, bearing the colophon of The Carlyle Press [London], in newly printed green wrappers - a hint of the previous red wrappers can be seen in the title-page gutter. An updated price (2/6) is printed on the upper wrapper and a printed slip 'two shillings and sixpence' has been laid over the original 'one shilling' on the title-page. #24944 $A45.00 |
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[59] SCHOLES, David. The Enchanting Break O'Day. Stevens Publishing: Launceston, 2000. Illustrations by Trevor Hawkins. 1st edition, limited issue, signed by the author. #64 of 250 copies, with additional coloured plate loosely inserted (the same image as the frontis but in colour; the limitation number is on the plate and at foot of the title-page). 4to. 160pp, sepia-toned sketches & photos, coloured ep sketch map. Quarter bound in tan/brown leathers, blind-decorated and with a coloured inlay (Scholes' diary from his first day fishing the Break O'Day in 1956), a few trifling marks to the lighter leather, otherwise fine. ***Trout fishing along the Break O'Day River, in Tasmania's Fingal Valley. #19077 $A450.00 |
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[60] SCHOLES, David. Trout Days: some reflections and conclusions after many years of grand and eventful fly-fishing. Kangaroo Press: Sydney, 1986. Illustrated by Peter Leuver. Foreword by Malcolm Fraser. 1st edition. 160pp, sketch illustrations, pictorial endpapers, full page map. Original papered boards with dustwrapper. A few tiny spots of foxing on the top edges, otherwise very good to fine. ***Signed by David Scholes. #5349 $A250.00 |
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[61] Spry, A. and Maxwell R. Banks (eds). The Geology of Tasmania. (Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, Volume 9, Part 2.) Geological Society of Australia: Adelaide, 1962. Large 8vo; x, 107-362pp, 78 b&w illustrations and maps, index; 4pp supplement (title and contents for Volume 9) loosely inserted (formerly tipped with two small pieces of tape to the front endpapers, leaving stains behind). This copy does not have the two loose folding maps, issued in an envelope, which should accompany it. Original papered boards, spine a trifle dulled; owner's surname at head of upper board, and also at head of title-page. Very good. #24630 $A95.00 |
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[62] STONEY, Capt. H. Butler. A Residence in Tasmania: with a descriptive tour through the island, from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head. Smith, Elder & Co.: London, 1856. Ferguson 16295. First London edition (originally published as A Year in Tasmania… with map but no plates in Hobart Town, 1854). vi, [ii], 312pp, frontis, vignette title, double-page folding map, 7 plates, 6 other illustrations. This copy does not have the publisher's advertisements at the rear. Contemporary half calf, spine label and raised bands, the extremities rubbed and a touch of flecking on the cloth. The volume evidently trimmed a little for binding. Edges sprinkled and slightly darkened. All but one of the plates have a slight damp mark visible on the verso, but scarcely so or not all on the recto, the map clean. A little scattered pale foxing early, otherwise crisp and clean. Owner's bookplate on front paste-down. A very good copy. #24714 $A660.00 |
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[63] WADE, M.L. & M. Solomon. Geology of the Mt Lyell Mines, Tasmania. Economic Geology: Urbana, Illinois, 1958. Extracted from Vol 53, no 4: pp [iv], 367-416, 16 figures. Disbound section, now stapled in the wrappers for the issue (library stamp on front wrapper, only). Very good. #24827 $A40.00 |
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[64] WALKER, Peter Benson. All That We Inherit: being family memorials of the Walkers and Mathers of Hobart and the reminiscences and memories of James Backhouse Walker and Sarah Benson Walker, the wife of George Washington Walker, banker, both of early Hobart Town, Tasmania. J. Walch & Sons: Hobart, 1968. #450 of 500 signed copies. Small 8vo. 158pp, illus, 7 pedigrees. Original cloth and clear acetate dustwrapper. Owner's name on front free endpaper. Very good to fine. #5411 $A85.00 |
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[65] WATTS, Peter, Jo Anne Pomfrett, and David Mabberley. An Exquisite Eye: the Australian flora & fauna drawings 1801-1820 of Ferdinand Bauer. Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales: Sydney, 1997. 4to. 167pp, 64 colour plates, map. Soft covers. Fine. ***This publication coincides with an exhibition of the same title held at the Focus Gallery, Museum of Sydney, on the site of the first Government House, between 13 December 1997 and 19 April 1998. #7718 $A95.00 |
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[66] WEST, John. The History of Tasmania. Henry Dowling: Launceston, 1852. 1st edition. Ferguson 18351. 2 volumes. 8vo; viii, 340pp & vi, [2], 380pp. Original green blind-stamped cloth, spines dulled, extremities rubbed, a few slight marks but also some spotting/soiling on the lower boards of both volumes. The original binding of this work is often found in a poor state, and here there are two signatures (pp145-74) a bit loose and sitting slightly proud at the fore-edges. An owner's small bookplate on each front paste-down has been placed over an earlier one (also his) which has been a bit untidily removed; his name also on the paste-downs and that of two other owner's on the front free endpapers. A little light spotting early and late on on a few other pages, but generally a good to very good, clean set. Now in mylar dustwrappers. #24767 $A950.00 |
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[67] WHITE, Mary E. Time in Our Hands: semi-precious gemstones, keys to the geological past. Reed: Sydney, 1991. Photography by Jim Frazier. Large 4to. 191pp, lavishly illustrated in colour. Original papered boards with dustwrapper. A lovely copy. Fine. ***The gemfields of Lune River in southern Tasmania. #14230 $A150.00 |
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[68] WHITHAM, Charles. Western Tasmania: a land of riches and beauty. Mt Lyell Tourist Association: Queenstown (Tas), 1924. 1st edition (but see below). 168pp, illus, folding map (clean tear at fold, well clear of the image, closed with tape). Original staple-binding in wrappers, gilt-decorated, coloured illustration mounted on front (missing a small portion), slight wear to extremities. Ownership inscription of H.J. King, the well-known Tasmanian photographer. A good clean copy. A revised and expanded version of 'The Book of Mount Lyell and the Gordon. A Land of Riches and Beauty', published by the association in 1917 - also by Whitham (his name does not appear as author but, as the Hon. Secretary, he took responsibility for any errors or negligence within). #15527 $A75.00 |
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[69] Willson, Geoff (ed). As the River Flows: Mount Victoria to Boobyalla. A History of the Ringarooma Municipality. Ringarooma Council: Ringarooma (Tas.), 1988. 4to. 231pp, illustrated. Case-bound in cloth with dustwrapper. Very good to fine. #6683 $A75.00 |
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