Astrolabe Booksellers: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" CONTENT="books,used,australia,antarctica,polar,whaling,maritime,literature,limited editions,tasmania,pacific,aviation,collectables,antiquarian"> <meta http-equiv="description" CONTENT=""> </HEAD> <body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" background="#../images/bkgnd.gif" link="#0080FF" text="#000099" vlink="#FF0000"> <br /><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border = 0 bgcolor=FFFFCC background=../images/bkgnd.gif > <tr> <td > <center><table width="96%" border=0 bgcolor=FFFFCC background=../images/bkgnd.gif> <tr><td align=middle cellspan="20%"> <img src="../images/mainlogo.gif" WIDTH="150" WIDTH="150" > </td> <td align=middle cellspan="60%"> <font size =6>ASTROLABE BOOKSELLERS</font> </td> <td align=middle cellspan="20%"> </td></tr></table></center> </td></tr></table></center> <font size =4> <center> This list shows the complete <b>Catalogue 55 (November 2009)</b> - as printed. <br><br>To check which items remain unsold and order any of these <b><i>securely</b></i> <a href="http://www.booksandcollectibles.com.au/esearch.php3?restrict2=34&type=SUB&search_string=cat55"> <B>click here</B></a>. </center> </font> <font size =3><center><font size =3><hr size =3> <br><center><B>CATALOGUE 55 [136 items] <br>Tasmaniana and Australiana, with some literary firsts, a little British history, and some classics and Latin text<BR><BR> </b></center><br> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[1]</strong> ANGUS, Max. <strong><em> The World of Olegas Truchanas. </em></strong>OBM: Hobart, nd. 8th edition [impression]. Square 4to. 144pp, 44 colour plates, 13 other illus, including 2 maps. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Fine (in fact this is a new copy). <em> ***Truchanas was the leading wilderness photographer of his day and a fine bushman. He was drowned while canoeing in the Gordon River Gorge in January 1972, during the unsuccessful campaign to save Lake Pedder from inundation. The first edition of this book was published by a private committee of his friends, and there were a further seven impressions, by other publishers. </em><em>#25818 </em><strong>$A95.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[2]</strong> ATKINS, Rev. Thomas. <strong><em> Reminiscences of Twelve Years' Residence in Tasmania and New South Wales; Norfolk Island and Moreton Bay. </em></strong>''Advertiser'' Office: Malvern (UK), 1869. xii, 292pp, frontis and four plates (one folding). Original red cloth, decorated in blind (spine faded). Front endpaper cracked at the hinge but binding solid, edges a little soiled, the folding plate of New York a little creased. A good+ copy. Ferguson 6170. <em> The second and extended edition. Atkins was the chaplain at Norfolk Island in 1836-37; he resigned this post after clashing with the commandant, Major Joseph Anderson, who he accused of cruelty and peculation. The second and third chapters concern Tasmania. </em><em>#26741 </em><strong>$A275.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[3]</strong> AUSTIN, Tim. Illustrated by Peter Zaadstra. <strong><em> Our Australian Kelpie. The Elfin Story. </em></strong>High Thunder: Mt Gambier SA, nd. Folio. 128pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Signed by the artist. Very good to fine. <em> </em><em>#26634 </em><strong>$A250.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[4]</strong> BAKER, Carol J. (ed) <strong><em> General Muster of New South Wales, 1814. </em></strong>Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record / Society of Australian Genealogists: Sydney, 1987. xxii, 233pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles, blind rules. Fine. <em> </em><em>#26725 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[5]</strong> BAKER, Carol J. (ed) <strong><em> General Muster, and Land and Stock Muster of New South Wales, 1822. </em></strong>Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record / Society of Australian Genealogists: Sydney, 1988. xxviii, 780pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles, blind rules. Fine. <em> </em><em>#26726 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[6]</strong> BAKER, Carol J. (ed) <strong><em> General Musters and Lists, New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1800-1802. </em></strong>Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record / Society of Australian Genealogists: Sydney, 1987. xxx, 208pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles, blind rules. In very good condition, but it has been cased upside down. <em> </em><em>#26728 </em><strong>$A85.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[7]</strong> BAKER, Carol J. (ed) <strong><em> General Musters of New South Wales, Norfolk Island and van Diemen's Land, 1811. </em></strong>Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record / Society of Australian Genealogists: Sydney, 1987. xxviii, 192pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles, blind rules. Fine. <em> </em><em>#26724 </em><strong>$A115.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[8]</strong> BAKER, Carol J. (ed) <strong><em> General Return of Convicts in New South Wales, 1837. </em></strong>Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record / Society of Australian Genealogists: Sydney, 1987. xxviii, 758pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles, blind rules. Light spotting on top edges, otherwise very good to fine. <em> </em><em>#26727 </em><strong>$A175.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[9]</strong> BAKER, Carol J. (ed) <strong><em> Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island 1805-1806. </em></strong>Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record / Society of Australian Genealogists: Sydney, 1989. xxiv, 272pp. Original red cloth, gilt titles, blind rules. Fine. <em> </em><em>#26723 </em><strong>$A100.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[10]</strong> Banks, Joseph: edited by J.C. Beaglehole. <strong><em> The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks 1768-1771. </em></strong>Public Library of NSW / Angus & Robertson: Sydney, 1962.-63. Two volumes. Vol II is the 2nd edition. xxviii, 476, 40 plates & xviii, 406pp, folding map, 40 plates. Original cloth with dustwrappers (in not quite uniform shades of brown). Owner's name in Vol II. Very good to fine. <em> </em><em>#26288 </em><strong>$A400.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[11]</strong> BARKER, Gary. <strong><em> Lunnicks Steam Powered Contractors: the stories of the people and the steam engines. </em></strong>Author: Murrumbateman NSW, 2009. 4to. 144pp, illustrated, map. Soft covers. Fine (new). <em> ***The civil engineering firm Lunnicks was established in the UK in 1946, and in 1951 moved - along with many of their employees and their families - to Tasmania's north-west coast. Most of these immigrants still live in Tasmania. </em><em>#26656 </em><strong>$A45.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[12]</strong> BARRETT, Charles (ed) <strong><em> Across the Years: the lure of Australian books. </em></strong>N.H. Seward: Melbourne, 1948. Limited edition; 650 copies. Small 4to. 148pp, illustrated. Original blue cloth with clear glassine dustwrapper (rubbed and spine sunned - the wrapper only, not the book). Edges a little yellowed and some offsetting on endpapers, otherwise very good. <em> ***Includes 'The Early Tasmanian Press and its writers', by E. Morris Miller, 'Van Diemen's Land for the Collector', by Clive Turnbull, and articles on major libraries, collecting, bookshops (James Tyrrell), bookplates, 'the blackfellow' in books, early naturalists, and regional studies (Victoria and northern Australia). </em><em>#4399 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[13]</strong> BAYLE, Pierre. <strong><em> Dictionnaire Historique et Critique de Pierre Bayle. Nouvelle Edition. </em></strong>Desoer: Paris, 1820. Nouvelle Edition, augmentee de notes extraites de Chaufepie, Joly, La Monnoie, L.-J. Leclerc, Leduchat, Prosper Marchand, etc. etc. 16 volumes. Tome Premiere: [iv] (half-title, title), vi (Avant Propos), xxx (Discours preliminaire de la onzieme edition), [ii] (errata), 554 (last blank), [2] (publisher's adverts); a page-stub follows the title-page but it is unclear if anything has been removed - the text seems complete. The final volume contains the prefaces to the earlier editions, a life of Bayle and an index. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper boards, spines richly gilt, raised bands; edges and endpapers marbled (binder's label of Frank Kerslake, Coventry St, London). Some foxing, but generally a nice clean set. Owner's name in all volumes (on binder's preliminary blank) and his pencilled index on a rear blank page in a few volumes. Most volumes have had a bookplate removed from the front endpaper, but on most this is scarcely noticeable and on the others only a little more so. The corners a little rubbed, as is the surface of the paper on the boards, but a nice set. [Weighs 12kg unpacked, extra postage will be required] <em> </em><em>#26215 </em><strong>$A3000.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[14]</strong> BECKE, Louis (ed). <strong><em> Old Convict Days. </em></strong>T. Fisher Unwin: London, 1899. Second impression. xvi, 338pp. Original decorated cloth, spine slightly sunned, a few slight marks, extremities a little rubbed. Edges and margins somewhat browned, otherwise very good. John Watt Beattie's copy, with his bookplate on the front paste-down. <em> ***The narrative of William Derrincourt (or Day), which first appeared in the Sydney Evening News. </em><em>#26740 </em><strong>$A300.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[15]</strong> BENT, Andrew (compiled and printed by). <strong><em> The Tasmanian Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1826; being the second after leap year.. </em></strong>Melanie Publications: Hobart, 1980. (Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions, no. 4.) First published Hobart Town, 1826 (Ferguson 1091). 200 numbered copies - this is no. 168. Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Fine. <em> </em><em>#20402 </em><strong>$A175.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[16]</strong> BETHELL, L.S. <strong><em> The Story of Port Dalrymple: life and work in Northern Tasmania. </em></strong>Education Dept.: Hobart, [1957.]. 1st edition. x, 193pp, 9 maps/plans, index; illustrated in black and white. Bound in full maroon calf, retaining the original wrappers. The leather a little rubbed, but a very good copy. <em> </em><em>#26683 </em><strong>$A50.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[17]</strong> BONIWELL, Robert R. <strong><em> The Allison Story: a personal search for the elusive story of an early Tasmania settler family through seven generations 1822-1983. </em></strong>Author: Strathfieldsaye (Vic), 2005. 150 copies only. 4to. 250pp, illus in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine. <em> </em><em>#21338 </em><strong>$A135.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[18]</strong> BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline; Elliot Forsyth & Bernard Smith (eds). <strong><em> Baudin in Australian Waters: the artwork of the French voyage of discovery to the Southern Lands, 1800-1804. </em></strong>Oxford University Press: Melbourne, 1988. Folio. 347pp, profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. With bibliography and general & scientific indices. Original decorated cloth with dustwrapper. Slight spotting of inside of wrapper and the blue linen cloth. Very good. <em> </em><em>#5246 </em><strong>$A425.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[19]</strong> BROINOWSKI, L., Ed. <strong><em> Tasmania's War Record 1914-1918. </em></strong>[John Burridge: Perth, WA, nd]. Facsimile reprint. 370pp, illustrated. Original red cloth-textured papered boards, gilt. Owner's name on verso of half-title. Very good. <em> ***Includes a complete Muster Roll of all Tasmanians who served. </em><em>#17759 </em><strong>$A200.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[20]</strong> BULL, John Wrathall. <strong><em> Early Experiences of Life in South Australia, and an extended colonial history. </em></strong>E.S. Wigg & Son: Adelaide, 1884. 2nd edition. Small 8vo. xvi, 416pp, frontis & 3 b&w plates. Original pictorial cloth (rural scene stamped in black on the upper board), gilt spine titles, slight mark just above title on the upper board. Owner's name writ small on verso of frontis. The volume is slight canted, otherwise a nice clean copy. Very good. <em> *** Publishers note on page iv reads: 'The first edition of this work was privately printed by the author for circulation in South Australia only. This new and enlarged second edition may therefore be regarded virtually as a new work'. </em><em>#26828 </em><strong>$A185.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[21]</strong> CALDER, J.E. <strong><em> Some Account of the Wars, Extirpation, Habits &c of the Native Tribes of Tasmania. </em></strong>Henn & Co.: Hobart, 1875. 1st edition. Ferguson 7797. Small 8vo. [iv] (title, verso blank; dedication, verso blank), [1-4] (acknowledgement, verso blank; note, verso blank); 5-116 (last blank), iv (Appendix, last blank) pp. Original red cloth, gilt-stamped title on front, black-stamped decorations on both boards, an additional blind-stamped title upside-down on lower board (binder's error), original violet endpapers. A few slight marks on the upper board, small ink mark near head of spine, corners lightly rubbed. A nice clean copy. Very good. <em> </em><em>#4305 </em><strong>$A450.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[22]</strong> CAREY, Peter. <strong><em> The Fat Man in History and Other Stories. </em></strong>Random House: New York, 1980. Second impression of first US edition. 186pp. Quarter cloth and papered boards with dustwrapper (both yellowed on top and lower edges). Faint marks on top page edges and around hinges on endpapers. Very good. <em> ***Signed by the author on title page. </em><em>#26679 </em><strong>$A150.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[23]</strong> CARPENTER, William / revised by W.H. Dallinger. <strong><em> The Microscope and its revelations. </em></strong>J. & A. Churchill: London, 1901. Eighth edition, in which the first seven and the twenty-third chapters have been entirely rewritten and the text throughout reconstructed, enlarged, and revised by the Rev. W. H. Dallinger. With XXII plates and nearly nine hundred wood engravings. In two volumes. 1136pp (in total). Original green cloth, a few slight stains and extremities rubbed (hardly at all on Vol II, but more so on Vol I). Owner's details stamped to front paste-downs; the front free endpaper of Vol I has an old typed sheet tipped-in with now discoloured tape ('Directions for using Swift's condenser'), with old tape marks and the owner's signature on the paste-down. The hinge here starting but binding solid. A good clean set, but Vol I a bit more worn than its partner. <em> </em><em>#26547 </em><strong>$A165.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[24]</strong> CARTER, Angela. <strong><em> Nights at the Circus. </em></strong>Chatto & Windus/The Hogarth Press: London, 1984. 1st edition. 295pp. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (not price-clipped). Edges and endpapers (the latter to a much lesser extent) with some light spotting, also a little to the d/w blurb flaps. ***Author's inscription, dated London '84, on title-page. Very good. <em> </em><em>#25537 </em><strong>$A330.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[25]</strong> CHAPMAN, John (text and photographs). <strong><em> Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park. </em></strong>Drinkwater: Hobart, 1980. Number 5 of 22 copies thus, signed by the author (the limitation statement also in the author's hand, on the half-title). Square 4to. 96pp, colour photographs, full-page colour map. Full brown (kangaroo?) leather, gilt titles on spine. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26800 </em><strong>$A150.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[26]</strong> CHICK, Neil. <strong><em> The Archers of Van Diemen's Land. A History of Pioneer Pastoral Families. </em></strong>Pedigree Press: Hobart, 1991. 1095 copies thus (another 125 were fully bound in leather and signed by the author) - this copy out-of-series (unnumbered). 4to. xx, 354, 128pp (the latter section a biographical index). Original cloth with dustwrapper. Owner's details on front free endpaper. A nice clean copy. Very good. <em> </em><em>#8987 </em><strong>$A425.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[27]</strong> Churchill, Randolph S. & Martin Gilbert. <strong><em> Winston S. Churchill [the complete biography in 8 volumes]. </em></strong>Heinemann: London, 1966.-88. Eight thick 8vo volumes in original cloth with dustwrappers. [I] Youth 1874-1900 (xxxvi, 608pp). [II] Young Statesman 1901-1914 (xxix, 775pp). [III] The Challenge of War 1914-1916 (xxxvii, 988pp). [IV] 1917-1922 (xvi, 967pp). [V] 1922-1939 (xxvii, 1167pp). [VI] Finest Hour 1939-1941 (xx, 1308pp). [VII] Road to Victory 1941-1945 (xx, 1417pp). [VIII] Never Despair 1945-1965 (xvii, 1438pp). All illustrated, and with maps and diagrams. The first two volumes are first editions; vol III is the first US edition (Houghton Mifflin); vols IV & V are reprints; vols VI, VII, & VIII are first editions. Vols I & II have an owner's name on the front free endpapers, Vol I a little loose but still good+; all other volumes very good. The set is presented in a uniform set of dustwrappers obtained by the previous owner from the publisher (the plain coloured ones, with titles and crest), vols III, VI, VII & VIII also have their original wrappers (the latter three are pictorial). Top edges of vols I, II, IV & V tinted red/plum. A nice clean set. Very good. <em> ***The complete biography, although many supplementary volumes (documents etc) were added. </em><em>#26307 </em><strong>$A550.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[28]</strong> Churchill: GILBERT, Martin. <strong><em> Churchill: a life. [2 volumes] </em></strong>Folio Society: London, 2004. 2 volumes. xxiv, 1198 pp, frontis & b&w plates, maps, index. Quarter bound in blue buckram and charcoal cloth, with the slipcase (photograph of WSC on one side face). Fine. <em> </em><em>#26247 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > CLARK, Andrew Inglis - see item 80<br><br> <strong>[29]</strong> CLARK, Julia. <strong><em> The Career of William Thompson, Convict. </em></strong>Port Arthur Historic Site: Tasmania, 2009. (Occasional Papers No 2.) 172pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Fine (new). <em> ***Thompson was transported to Van Diemen's Land for burglary in 1841 and freed almost 12 years later, as the transportation era was ending. While under servitude he worked on various probation road gangs, underground at the notorious coal mines on the Tasman Peninsula, and in the timber gangs at Port Arthur. He was a skilled shoemaker and worked at his trade, both inside and outside the system. At the age of 80 he told his story to the photographer/antiquarian John Watt Beattie, who recorded it in two small notebooks. This is the first publication. </em><em>#26655 </em><strong>$A35.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[30]</strong> COAD, David. <strong><em> Port Cygnet 1792-1860. A History of Tasmania. Volume I. </em></strong>Author: Kingston (Tas), 2009. 4to. 196pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Fine (new). <em> ***Chapters on exploration (notably the French), early settlers, the convict years (probation stations); military pensioners; the formation of the township. </em><em>#26693 </em><strong>$A30.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[31]</strong> COLLINS, David. <strong><em> Account of a Voyage to Establish a Settlement in Bass's Straits; to which is added a description of Port Phillip and an account of the landing in the Derwent in 1804. </em></strong>The Colony Press: Melbourne, 1986. Edited from the despatches of David Collins… by John Currey. 1st edition. #143 of 320 numbered copies. 4to. 258pp, 15 illus, folding map. Quarter leather with spine label (lettering faded), marbled-paper boards, deckled fore-edges. Very good. <em> </em><em>#7191 </em><strong>$A325.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[32]</strong> COLLINS, David. <strong><em> An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales. With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners etc., of the Native Inhabitants of that Country. </em></strong>Libraries Board of South Australia: Adelaide, 1971. (Australiana Facsimile Editions, no. 76.) See Ferguson 263 & 350. 2 volumes. 4to. [xx], xxxviii, 620pp, maps & illus & xvi, 336pp, maps, illustrations (several coloured). Original cloth, a little rubbed on the joints, spine title label. Edges lightly yellowed. Owner's details on front free endpaper of both volumes. Very good. <em> ***The most important of the books published by the officers who came with the First Fleet. Collins was the Judge-Advocate of the infant colony, and was later the first Lieut-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. The second volume includes George Bass's account of his voyage with Matthew Flinders through the strait which now bears his name, and which established that Van Diemen's Land was an island (chapters XIV--XVI). </em><em>#15344 </em><strong>$A225.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[33]</strong> CRAIG, Clifford <strong><em> Old Tasmanian Prints. Prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the Mainland of Australia </em></strong>Foot & Playsted: Launceston, 1964. Published in an edition of 1000 numbered & signed copies - this is an out-of-series copy, signed by Dr Craig and with his long presentation inscription to H.J. King [the Tasmanian photographer], dated October 1964. 349pp, coloured frontis, 80 plates. Original pictorial cloth. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26999 </em><strong>$A185.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[34]</strong> CULLIS, Herbert G. <strong><em> No Tears for Jane: a Haddon family history. </em></strong>Author: Melbourne, 1982. With illustrations by Ailsa Harvey. #164 of 370 copies, signed by the author. Small 4to. 139pp, illustrated. Blue cloth boards, a trifle flecked. Slight mark on fore-edges, not affecting the pages. Very good. Letter from the author loosely inserted. <em> ***Jane Haddon was transported from Scotland in 1840, arriving in Van Diemen's Land in the following year and settling in the Green Ponds/Kempton district. </em><em>#26722 </em><strong>$A95.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[35]</strong> CURREY, John. <strong><em> David Collins: a colonial life. </em></strong>Miegunyah Press (MUP): Melbourne, 2000. 1st edition. 1250 copies. xiv, 390pp, frontis, 4 colour plates, 12 b&w illus. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good. <em> ***The first substantial biography of the Deputy Judge-Advocate of the first settlement in New South Wales - and the author of the most detailed account of the infant colony - who was later the founding Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. </em><em>#11520 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[36]</strong> CURTIS, Winifred (botanical and ecological text by). <strong><em> The Endemic Flora of Tasmania. Parts 1-6 [complete]. </em></strong>Ariel Press: London, 1967.-78. Painted by Margaret Stones. 6 volumes, folio. Full-page colour plates, coloured endpaper maps. Original red linen, gilt map/title device on upper boards, with dustwrappers (a couple have one or two closed short clean tears at the edges; all now in protective sleeves). The top corner of the upper board of Vol I, and the lower corners of Vol IV slightly bumped, otherwise a very nice clean set. Very good+. <em> </em><em>#15116 </em><strong>$A1750.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[37]</strong> <strong><em> The Cyclopedia of Tasmania (illustrated). An Historical and Commercial Review. Descriptive and biographical, facts, figures, and illustrations. An Epitome of Progress: business men and commercial interests. </em></strong>Maitland & Krone: Hobart, 1900. 1st edition. 2 volumes. 629 & 427pp, well illustrated. In an attractive recent rebinding in half black leather and cloth, spines gilt. Lacking the last leaf from Vol One (last page of index, verso blank, the text supplied in loosely inserted photocopy), slight damage to top corners of the first three leaves in Volume One (small piece missing from top corner of title-page), slight spotting early and late, otherwise clean and in very good condition. A nice set. <em> </em><em>#26578 </em><strong>$A875.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[38]</strong> DALY, Regina W. (ed) <strong><em> The Shackleton Letters: behind the scenes of the Nimrod expedition. </em></strong>Erskine Press: Norwich, 2009. 450 numbered copies, signed by the editor on a bookplate laid onto the half-title. viii, 360pp, illustrated, folding coloured map at rear paste-down. Papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (new). <em> </em><em>#25799 </em><strong>$A68.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[39]</strong> DARLEY, Major T.H. <strong><em> With the Ninth Light Horse in the Great War. </em></strong>A. Green: Brisbane, 2009. Facsimile edition (first published Adelaide, 1923). 400 numbered copies. 206pp, illustrated. Cloth-backed papered boards. Fine (new). <em> </em><em>#26673 </em><strong>$A195.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[40]</strong> DELANO, Amasa. <strong><em> A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres... </em></strong>Praeger: New York, 1970. [title continues] 'comprising Three Voyages Around the World; together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery, in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands'. Facsimile reprint: first published Boston, 1817. viii, 599pp, frontis. Original blue cloth (extremities lightly rubbed). Edges slightly spotted, otherwise very good. <em> </em><em>#25992 </em><strong>$A85.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[41]</strong> DICK, C. I. [Charlotte Isabel] <strong><em> The Christmas Box. </em></strong>Privately printed: [Hobart], 1945. Large 8vo. 28pp (last blank). Stapled in stiff card boards with dustwrapper (a few tiny chips along the edges). A very good clean copy. <em> ***Five children's stories, written for the author's grandchildren (Mandy, Sandy, Jack, Ann & Dandy). Isabel Dick (1881-1959) was the author of Wild Orchard and Country Heart; the former set in Tasmania, the latter partly so. This title not in Morris Miller/Macartney, but see p151 for the author. </em><em>#26431 </em><strong>$A55.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[42]</strong> DULAC, Edmund. <strong><em> Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book for the French Red Cross. </em></strong>Daily Telegraph: London, nd. 4to. 136pp, frontis and 18 other colour plates, and the artist's portrait, all tipped to coloured paper. Original decorated cloth. Endpapers with a little spotting and offsetting, otherwise a very nice clean copy. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26891 </em><strong>$A150.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[43]</strong> DUYKER, Edward. <strong><em> An Officer of the Blue. Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne, South Sea Explorer, 1724-1772. </em></strong>Miegunyah Press (MUP): Melbourne, 1994. (Miegunyah Series 1, number 16.) 1st ed. 230pp. 13 maps, 32 plates (11 in colour). Original cloth with dustwrapper. Owner's small (and unsophisticated) name plate on front free endpaper. Very good. <em> ***Dufresne was the first of the European expeditioners to have contact with the Tasmanian Aborigines, with the fatal result that was a portent (for him as well as for them) of what was to come. </em><em>#8201 </em><strong>SOLD</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[44]</strong> Ferrar, William M. <strong><em> Artabanzanus: the Demon of the Great Lake. An Allegorical Romance of Tasmania, arranged from the diary of the late Oliver Hubertus. </em></strong>Elliot Stock: London, 1896. vi, 314pp. Original quarter maroon and green cloth, gilt spine title, extremities a little rubbed. Top and fore-edges uncut (and a bit spotted). Four silverfish holes in rear free endpaper, an owner's name written on dedication and contents pages, Clive E. Lord's signature stamp on front paste-down and at head of title-page (Lord was Director of the Tasmanian Museum). Very good. Scarce. <em> </em><em>#17534 </em><strong>$A450.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[45]</strong> FITZPATRICK, Kathleen. <strong><em> Sir John Franklin in Tasmania 1837-1843. </em></strong>MUP: Melbourne, 1949. 1st ed. 408pp, frontis portrait, 4 illus. Original cloth, spine a little faded (no dustwrapper). Owner's name stamp and inked date on front paste-down, the stamp repeated on a late blank page. A little offsetting on the endpapers, edges yellowed. Good to very good. <em> </em><em>#26622 </em><strong>SOLD</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[46]</strong> FLINDERS, Matthew. <strong><em> A Voyage to Terra Australis undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803 in His Majesty's Ship the Investigator… </em></strong>Libraries Board of South Australia: Adelaide, 1966. (Australian Facsimile Editions, 37.) 2 volumes and box of charts. Large 4to. 269 & 613pp; 16 charts, 4 coastal profile sheets, 10 botanical plates - all folded and in the box. Original canvas bookcloth with spine labels. Top corners of Vol One a trifle bumped, a little light spotting on the edges, otherwise a very good set.. <em> </em><em>#6095 </em><strong>$A800.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[47]</strong> FLINDERS, Matthew. <strong><em> Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its islands, and on part of the coasts of New South Wales; intended to accompany the charts of the late discoveries in those countries. </em></strong>Libraries Board of South Australia: Adelaide, 1965. (Australiana Facsimile Editions, no. 66.) First published 1801 (Ferguson 329). Large 4to. 36pp. Blue vinyl as issued, slight discolouration around the edges. Page edges browned, otherwise very good. Owner's details. The edition was 597 copies according to Peade. <em> ***The three charts were separately published by Arrowsmith in 1800 and 1801. </em><em>#5788 </em><strong>$A125.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[48]</strong> FLYNN, Michael. <strong><em> The Second Fleet. Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790. </em></strong>Library of Australian History: Sydney, 1993. 1st edition. 787pp, illus. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good. Owner's details on front free endpaper. <em> </em><em>#25623 </em><strong>$A150.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[49]</strong> FORSYTH, W.D. <strong><em> Governor Arthur's Convict System, Van Diemen's Land 1824-36: a study in colonisation. </em></strong>Sydney University Press: Sydney, 1970. Reprint (first published 1935). 223pp, b&w frontis portrait. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine dulled, extremities a little rubbed, now in protective sleeve). Owner's details on front free endpaper. A little spotting on endpapers, edges yellowed. Very good. <em> </em><em>#5445 </em><strong>$A60.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[50]</strong> FOWLES, John. <strong><em> The French Lieutenant's Woman. </em></strong>Franklin Library: Philadelphia, 1979. Illustrated by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. A Limited Edition, signed by the author. 489pp. Full blue leather, richly gilt, all edges gilt, place ribbon. Fine. <em> </em><em>#25539 </em><strong>$A225.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[51]</strong> Gibson: <strong><em> The Scone Merinos owned and bred by Messrs W. Gibson and Son. </em></strong>Printed at the "Launceston Examiner" Office: , 1887. Second edition. Small 8vo. [viii], 88pp (last blank). Original cloth over stiff boards, cut flush, gilt title on the upper. Appears to have new endpapers, and thus possibly re-cased. A few light marks on the cloth, light spotting on the title-page, slight creases lower corners of first three leaves, otherwise very good. Ferguson 9903. <em> </em><em>#21474 </em><strong>$A550.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[52]</strong> GOODRIDGE, Charles Medyett. <strong><em> Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and the shipwreck of the Princess of Wales, cutter, with an account of two years residence on an uninhabited island: 4th ed. </em></strong>W.C. Featherstone: Exeter, 1841. Fourth edition. 12vo. 170pp, frontis and two lithographed plates, with tissue guards, [20]pp list of subscribers precedes the text, errata slip at final page. Original green cloth, decorated in gilt on the spine and in blind on the boards, extremities a little rubbed. Hand-written number at end of text and on rear paste-down. Contemporary bookplate on front paste-down. See Ferguson 3606. <em> ***The author was amongst a party shipwrecked off the Crozet Islands in 1821. After considerable hardship they were rescued and taken to Van Diemen's Land. Goodridge stayed in Hobart Town for eight years before returning to England in 1831. This account was first published in 1832. </em><em>#26742 </em><strong>$A300.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[53]</strong> GRAHAM, Marjorie <strong><em> Australian Pottery of the 19th and early 20th century. </em></strong>David Ell Press: Sydney, 1979. Published in association with the National Trust of Australia (NSW), Women's Committee. First edition. Large 8vo. 176pp, coloured and b&w illustrations. Original cloth with dustwrapper. A little fading and bumping along the spine of the book (not the corners), similarly the dustwrapper). Small stain of fore-edges, owner's details on front free endpaper. Otherwise a good clean copy. Loosely inserted are a number of related press clippings, and a typed letter from the author to the owner of the book, in response to her letter relating to a number of pots in her possession, at least one of which, with Port Arthur connections, ended up in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (a copy of a letter to the Gallery about this is also enclosed). <em> </em><em>#26855 </em><strong>$A95.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[54]</strong> GRAHAM, Marjorie. <strong><em> Australian Glass of the 19th and early 20th century. </em></strong>David Ell Press: Sydney, 1981. Photography by Donald Graham. 1st ed. Tall 8vo. 144pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. The foot edges of the boards a little silverfished, owner's details on front free endpaper. Very good. The owner has also added three coloured illustrations (photographs) and a typed caption for these, laid down on the final two pages, below the index on p143 and on the blank verso. These illustrate a ruby-stained water set of glasses and jug, and a set of clear glass tumblers with a raised transfer design, which were donated by the owner to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 1987. A further colour photograph showing a glass bowl (hand-written caption on verso), also donated to TMAG, is loosely inserted. <em> </em><em>#26854 </em><strong>$A100.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[55]</strong> GRANT, James. <strong><em> The Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery, performed in His Majesty's Vessel The Lady Nelson, of sixty tons burthen, with sliding keels, in the years 1800, 1801, and 1802, to New South Wales... </em></strong>Libraries Board of South Australia: Adelaide, 1973. (Australiana Facsimiles no. 28) Facsimile of the London, 1803 edition (Ferguson 375). 4to. xvi, 195pp, folding plan of sliding keels, folding chart, 6 plates (one colour). Original red cloth. Fine. <em> </em><em>#7757 </em><strong>$A185.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[56]</strong> Griffith, J.W.; Rev. M.J.Berkeley and T. Rupert Jones (eds) <strong><em> The Micrographic Dictionary: a guide to the examination and investigation of the structure and nature of microscopic objects. </em></strong>John Van Voorst: London, 1883. 2 volumes bound as one. [I] xlvi, 830pp, 812 figures (woodcuts) in the text; title-page, 53 plates (16 fully or partly hand-coloured), descriptions facing (interleaved). The two volumes together in blue binder's cloth, spine label (extremities a little rubbed). Owner's details stamped on both front endpapers, a few tiny tape marks on eps front and back. A nice clean copy. Good to very good. <em> </em><em>#26546 </em><strong>$A450.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[57]</strong> HANNAFORD, S. <strong><em> The Wild Flowers of Tasmania; or, Chatty rambles afloat and ashore, amidst the seaweeds, ferns, and flowering plants; with a complete list of indigenous ferns, and instructions for their cultivation. </em></strong>F.F. Bailliere: Melbourne, 1866. Ferguson 10213. Small 8vo. [iv] (publisher's advert on verso of second leaf), xii; 188pp; 4pp (publisher's adverts on verso of the first leaf and recto of the second, the other pages blank), 10 b&w plates. Original green cloth, gilt decorations and titles. Ex-Allport Library with its small plate and withdrawal stamp on the front paste-down, pencilled Dewey number on verso of the ffep, no other markings. The uncut edges a little browned, otherwise a nice clean copy. Signature of Mrs Gregson, 1867. Very good. <em> </em><em>#6953 </em><strong>$A400.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[58]</strong> Hobart High School: <strong><em> Fifty Years 1913-1963. The History of the Hobart High School. </em></strong>The School: Hobart, 1963. Edited by Neil Batt. Oblong 8vo. 96pp, illus. Soft covers. Owner's signature top corner of front cover and tiny mathematical calculation on the rear. Very good. <em> ***The school had just begun its transformation into a matriculation college. </em><em>#12247 </em><strong>$A55.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[59]</strong> Hobart High School: Poulson, B.J. <strong><em> 1973 Log of Hobart Matriculation College. Issued to commemorate the Sixtieth Jubilee of the Hobart State High School (est 1913). </em></strong>The College: Hobart, 1973. 4to. 124pp, well illustrated in b&w. Cloth-backed stiff wrappers. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26965 </em><strong>$A40.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[60]</strong><strong><em> The Hobart Town Gazette. Volume XXIV [1839]. </em></strong>William Gore Elliston / James Barnard, Government Printer: Hobart Town, 1839. Weekly issues, numbers 1179-1230, 4 January to 27 December 1839: but lacking issue no 1210 (9 August) and final leaf from issue 1213 (30 August), with a few defective leaves. 4to. 1527pp. Bound in two volumes, modern half leather and brown cloth, spine labels. Some spotting and browning of the pages, but generally clean; the defects in the leaves are mostly ragged edges. Owner's small name labels in each volume. Typed (privately-compiled) index of 'letters requiring postage addressed to Port Phillip' in 1839 loosely inserted. <em> </em><em>#26286 </em><strong>$A750.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[61]</strong><strong><em> Historical Records of Australia [III/2]. Series III: Despatches and papers relating to the settlement of the states. Volume II: Tasmania, July 1812 - December 1819. </em></strong>Commonwealth Parliamentary Library: Canberra, 1921. xxiv, 874pp. Original blue cloth. Very good. <em> </em><em>#20284 </em><strong>$A120.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[62]</strong><strong><em> Historical Records of Australia [III/3]. Series III. Despatches and papers relating to the settlement of the states. Volume III. Tasmania, January-December 1820. </em></strong>Commonwealth Parliamentary Library: Canberra, 1922. xxiv, 1052pp. Original blue cloth. Very good. <em> ***Includes the evidence presented to Commissioner Bigge (pp 215-508). </em><em>#20286 </em><strong>$A135.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[63]</strong><strong><em> Historical Records of Australia [III/4]. Series III. Despatches and papers relating to the settlement of the states. Volume IV. Tasmania, 1821 - December 1825. </em></strong>Commonwealth Parliamentary Library: Canberra, 1921. xx, 975pp. Original blue cloth , 2cm split at head of front joint. Otherwise a very good clean copy. <em> </em><em>#20285 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[64]</strong><strong><em> Historical Records of Australia [III/5]. Series III: Despatches and papers relating to the settlement of the states. Volume V: Tasmania, December 1825 - March 1827. Northern Territory, 1823-1827. Westernport, Victoria, 1826-1827. </em></strong>Commonwealth Parliamentary Library: Canberra, 1922. xxii, 959pp. Original blue cloth (slight mark on upper board). Very good. <em> </em><em>#26353 </em><strong>$A120.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[65]</strong> JOHNSTON, Max. <strong><em> Johnston. 200 years of family history starting with Isabella and William Johnston from 1787. </em></strong>Author?: Ulverstone (Tas.), [1989.?] 4to. 141pp, illus. Soft covers. Very good. <em> </em><em>#7942 </em><strong>$A65.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[66]</strong> KAY, F.N. <strong><em> Gardening in Tasmania. Flower garden, greenhouse, conservatory and kitchen garden. </em></strong>J. Walch & Sons: Hobart, nd. 1st ed. [136]pp (numbered to 132 but pp 8A-8D follow page 8), frontis, 8 plates, includes index, advertisements on [4]pp following index both paste-downs. Original green blind-stamped cloth, with white title lettering on upper board. Very good. <em> ***The Garden Calendar section is based on the original 1870 Walch's Handbook of Gardening for Tasmania, but much revised and with much additional material. </em><em>#13890 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[67]</strong> KOCH, C.J. <strong><em> Crossing the Gap. A Novelist's Essays. </em></strong>Chatto & Windus: London, 1987. 1st ed. 167pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good to fine. <em> </em><em>#5227 </em><strong>$A40.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[68]</strong> KOCH, C.J. <strong><em> The Boys in the Island. </em></strong>Hamish Hamilton: London, 1958. 1st ed. 250pp. Original cloth with dustwrapper (a little soiled). Some spotting on the edges endpapers and a few early leaves, otherwise good to very good. <em> ***The author's first novel. </em><em>#21742 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[69]</strong> KOCH, Christopher. <strong><em> Across the Sea Wall. </em></strong>Heinemann: London, 1965. 1st ed. 234pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (a little dulled, slightly more so on the spine, price-clipped). Edges slightly spotted, and with a small stain at the foot of the fore-edges, clean inside. Very good. <em> </em><em>#7604 </em><strong>$A75.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[70]</strong> Launceston High School: Lord, Harold; Rod Kilner; Heinz Kruesmann and Darryl Hasell. <strong><em> 60 Years On: the history of the Launceston State High School 1913-1966 and the Launceston Matriculation College 1967-1976. </em></strong>The College: Launceston, [1976.] 104pp, b&w photographs and illustrated. Stapled in wrappers (slightly browned around the edges), clean inside. Very good. <em> </em><em>#12808 </em><strong>$A40.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[71]</strong> LIVY: T. Livii Patavini <strong><em> Historiarum ab Urbe Condita: Libri Qui Supersunt Omnes, Ex Recensione Arn. Drakenborhii; accedunt notae integrae ex editionibus J.B.L. Crevierii cum indice rerum locupletissimo. Volumes I-IV. </em></strong>Excudebat W. Baxter; impensis J. Parker [et al]: Oxonii, 1825. Four volumes. 8vo. 608; 591; 508; 440, cxliv pp. Contemporary half brown calf and cloth, spine labels and raised bands, spines faded, extremities rubbed, head and tail of spines a little more so. A little pale spotting early and late in each volumes, owners' names. 12pp of Vol 2 protrude by a few mm from the fore-edges but are solid within the binding. A good to very good set. <em> ***Livy's major work: The Early History of Rome. Text and notes in Latin. </em><em>#25995 </em><strong>$A300.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[72]</strong> Löfstedt, Einar <strong><em> Late Latin. </em></strong>H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard): Oslo, 1959. (Instituttet for Sammenlignende Kulturforskning, Serie A: XXV.) Large 8vo. [8], 216pp, with index and bibliography. Original cloth, a trifle flecked and faded. <em> Einar Löfstedt (1880-1955) and his school threw much light on Vulgar Latin and indirectly on Latin in general. </em><em>#26508 </em><strong>$A165.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[73]</strong> MACAULAY, Lord [Thomas Babington]. <strong><em> Critical and Historical Essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review. </em></strong>Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts: London, 1861. A New Edition. 8vo. viii, 836pp, engraved frontis and vignette title. Contemporary full calf, spines gilt with title label, gilt and blind rules, marbled edges and endpapers. Bookplate on front paste-down. Extremities slightly rubbed. A little spotting to the frontis & vignette title, otherwise very clean. Very good. <em> </em><em>#25935 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[74]</strong> MACAULAY, Lord [Thomas Babington]. <strong><em> The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay. </em></strong>Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts: London, 1860. In Two Volumes. xiv, 395 & viii, 440pp; frontis portrait. Original brown cloth, decorated in blind, spines slightly faded. Edmonds & Remnants binder's label, Sir Henry Ayers' bookplate on both paste-downs. Very good. <em> </em><em>#25936 </em><strong>$A100.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[75]</strong> Manilius, Marcus: recensuit et enarravit Alfred Edward Housman <strong><em> Astronomicon. [5 books in 2] </em></strong>Georg Olms Verlag: Hildesheim, 1972. Quinque tomi in duobus tomibus [5 books in 2 volumes]. Facsimile reprint of the Grant Richards editions. [I] lxxvi,103pp; xxxii,123pp; xxx,72. [II] xviii,130; xlviii,199pp. Original cloth, spine very slightly faded. Edges a little spotted. Very good. Owner's name. <em> ***The first century Roman poet and astrologer; Housman's translation is considered the authoritative edition of his poem in 5 books. Text in Latin, the introductions to each book in English. </em><em>#26116 </em><strong>$A350.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[76]</strong> McCORMICK, Tim et al. <strong><em> First Views of Australia 1788-1825. A history of early Sydney. </em></strong>David Ell Press/Longueville Publications: Sydney, 1987. Foreword by Bernard Smith. Square 4to. 340pp 226 colour and b&w plates, other illustrations. Original cloth with dustwrapper (spine and top edges slightly faded). Very good. <em> </em><em>#26715 </em><strong>$A300.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[77]</strong> MEREDITH, Louisa Anne. <strong><em> Our Island Home: a Tasmanian Sketch Book. </em></strong>J. Walch & Sons/Marcus Ward & Co.: Hobart Town/London, 1879. The plates printed in Autotype, from the Author's pencil drawings. 1st edition. Ferguson 12513. Folio. [iv], 88pp, extra illustrated title & 12 monochrome plates of Tasmanian views. Original brown cloth, decorated in gold and black, the corners a little rubbed, all edges gilt. Some light foxing, especially early and late, but the pages and plates very clean. Very good. <em> </em><em>#4873 </em><strong>$A950.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[78]</strong> MILLER, Linus. <strong><em> Notes of an Exile to Van Dieman's Land: comprising incidents of the Canadian Rebellion in 1838, trial of author in Canada... imprisonment in England, and transportation to Van Dieman's Land... </em></strong>Printed by W. McKinstry & Co: Fredonia, NY, 1846. First edition. xii, 378pp. Original cloth, worn at head and tail of spine and corners but binding solid, now with clear protective wrapper. Moderately foxed throughout, a bit heavier in places and lighter in others, edges darkened, a couple of signatures slightly protruding. Pencilled owners' names on both paste-down endpapers, and another name at head of front free ep. A good copy of a very scarce item. Ferguson 4349. <em> ***Title continues: 'Also an account of the horrible sufferings endured by ninety political prisoners during a residence of six years in that land of British slavery, together with sketches of the island, its history, productions, inhabitants &c., &c.' Ferguson commented: 'A most vivid and interesting account of the convict system in Tasmania from within by a political prisoner, who publishes testimonials to his upright character and reliability from Tasmanian public men'. </em><em>#27004 </em><strong>$A3000.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[79]</strong> MITCHEL, John. <strong><em> The Last Conquest of Ireland (perhaps). </em></strong>Cameron & Ferguson: Glasgow, nd [ c1877.] Author's edition. Small 8vo. 220pp. Contemporary green half leather and cloth, the extremities a little rubbed. Marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled red. A little scattered early spotting but a nice clean copy. Owner's inscription dated 'May 7th /77'. <em> </em><em>#26623 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[80]</strong> MORLEY, John. <strong><em> The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. </em></strong>Macmillan & Co: London, 1903. Three volumes. 661, 666, 648, tissue-protected frontispieces and portraits. Original cloth (a few silverfish nibbles around edges, extremities rubbed, tiny split in tail of spine of volume I). Light offsetting on endpapers, front hinge volume II showing wear but binding solid. Very good. <em> ***Ownership signature of Andrew Inglis Clark on front free endpaper of Volume One. Clark was perhaps the most notable of Tasmanian legal figure of the latter half of the nineteenth century, and was a significant figure in the Australian Federation movement. </em><em>#26435 </em><strong>$A135.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[81]</strong> MURRAY, P.L. (compiler and editor). <strong><em> Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa 1899-1902. </em></strong>[John Burridge: Perth, WA?], nd. Large octavo. Facsimile reprint of 1911 original edition. 607pp. Index. Original green cloth decorated in blind and gilt. One small scuff mark on lower board, otherwise fine. <em> ***A statistical register and a reference tool. It contains highly detailed information on the activities of the Australian contingents during the Boer War with nominal rolls, details of equipment, service, and awards. Each of the Australian States' contribution to the Boer War is outlined. </em><em>#26235 </em><strong>$A550.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[82]</strong> PAINE, Harry Reginald. <strong><em> Taking You Back Down the Track / Taking You Back Down More Tracks. </em></strong>Author?: Somerset (Tas), 1994.-95. Two booklets, A4 spiral-bound, 150 & 82pp, maps and a few illustrations. The first signed by the author. Good to very good. <em> *** The author's recollections of Waratah on Tasmania's west coast, where he was born in 1909 and lived for the first 40 years of his life. </em><em>#26847 </em><strong>$A55.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[83]</strong> PARKES, Henry. <strong><em> An Emigrant's Home Letters, </em></strong>Angus & Robertson: Sydney, 1896. With preface and notes by Annie T. Parkes. 164, 16pp (publishers adverts), publisher's advert slip tipped-in at front hinge. Original cloth, a slight touch of flecking on the upper board. Top edges gilt, the others uncut (and a little spotted), the endpapers with some offsetting. A very nice clean copy. very good. <em> </em><em>#26624 </em><strong>$A100.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[84]</strong> PHILLIP, Arthur. <strong><em> Extracts of Letters from Arthur Phillip Esq., Governor of New South Wales to Lord Sydney; to which is annexed a Description of Norfolk Island by Philip Gidley King, Esq. and An Account of Expences incurred in transporting Convicts to New South Wales. </em></strong>Libraries Board of South Australia: Adelaide, 1965. Australiana Facsimile Editions, no. 15. First published 1791 ( Ferguson 116). 443 copies. Folio. iv, 26pp. Original red rexine, head of spine slightly bumped, otherwise very good. <em> </em><em>#6587 </em><strong>$A100.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[85]</strong> PLINY [the Elder]: with an English translation. <strong><em> Natural History / Naturalis Historia [10 volumes]. </em></strong>Heinemann / Harvard University Press: London, 1958.-62. (Loeb Classical Library.) Original red cloth, the spine of Vol I faded, top edges of a few vols slightly spotted. A very good set. Owner's name. <em> ***Parallel texts in Latin and English. </em><em>#26106 </em><strong>$A300.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[86]</strong> PLOMMER, Hugh. <strong><em> Vitruvius and later Roman building materials. </em></strong>Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1973. (Cambridge Classical Studies.) 1st ed. 118pp, 4 illustrations. Original cloth with dustwrapper (top edge a little worn, now in protective sleeve). Very good+. Owner's name. <em> *** An edition and translation of Faventius' Compendium of Vitruvius' De Architectura (M. Ceti Faventini: De Diversis Fabricus Architectonicae) in parallel Latin--English text (pp39-85). Introduction and commentary in English. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a 1st century BC Roman architect and engineer. </em><em>#26511 </em><strong>$A85.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[87]</strong> Rabelais: illustrated by Frances Broadhurst. <strong><em> The Heroic Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel. </em></strong>Angus & Robertson: Sydney, 1952. 150 numbered copies - this out of series (unnumbered). 2 volumes. 4to. xxviii, 762pp, coloured frontis pieces and 35 other b&w drawings, pictorial endpapers. Original quarter maroon morocco and brown cloth. Some spotting on the endpapers and edges, otherwise clean. Very good to fine. <em> </em><em>#26289 </em><strong>$A275.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[88]</strong> RALSTON, Anntoinette M. <strong><em> John Ralston of Hampden 1850-1908: his life, ancestry and legacies. </em></strong>John Ralston Estate: Launceston, 2004. 100 copies (though not stated). Tall 4to. 114pp, illustrated. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Fine. <em> ***Ralston was a wealthy Tasmanian pastoralist, whose will provided for an extraordinary charitable trust. Amongst the beneficiaries is the University of Tasmania, with its Ralston chairs of Biology and Zoology. </em><em>#26637 </em><strong>$A100.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[89]</strong> Ricardi Divisiensis [Richard of Devizes]. <strong><em> Chronicon De Rebus Gestis Ricardi Primi Regis Angliae. </em></strong>Sumptibus Societatis [English Historical Society]: Londoni, 1838. Nunc primum typis mandatum, curante Josepho Stevenson. xii, 88pp, includes list of EHS members. Original half-leather and pebbled cloth, gilt spine titles and blind rules, the extremities a little rubbed. Slight offsetting on endpapers, the red-sprinkled edges a little darkened. Owner's name on ffep, and his short pencilled note on the rear free endpaper. Very good. <em> ***An account of the affairs of England from 1189 to 1192, and of the exploits of Richard the First, during that time, in the Holy Land, by the monk Richard of Devizes. The text in Latin, preface and notes in English. </em><em>#26147 </em><strong>$A85.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[90]</strong> RICHARDSON, Lieut.-Colonel J.D. <strong><em> The History of the 7th Light Horse Regiment A.I.F. </em></strong>A. Green: Brisbane, 2009. Facsimile edition (first published Sydney, 1923). 400 numbered copies. Small 4to. 122pp, illustrated. With honours and awards, roll of wounded. Cloth-backed papered boards. Fine (new). <em> </em><em>#26674 </em><strong>$A195.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[91]</strong> Rimmer, Gordon. <strong><em> Two Early Views of Van Diemen's Land. </em></strong>University of Tasmania Library: Hobart, 1965. An inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Tasmania on the 3rd November 1965. 22pp. Stapled in the original wrappers, as issued. Owner's details. Very good. <em> ***The views are those of the early historians of Tasmania: Henry Melville and John West. </em><em>#26852 </em><strong>$A15.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[92]</strong> Robinson, James William (edited by Michael Nash). <strong><em> Captain Robinson. The reminiscences of a Tasmanian Master Mariner: James William Robinson 1824-1906. </em></strong>Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2009. 1st edition: the Special Issue of 25 copies numbered I-XXV, signed by the editor and bound in quarter leather and cloth. 8vo. x, 178pp, frontis portrait, colour and b&w illustrations. Fine (new). <em> </em><em>#26090 </em><strong>$A285.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[93]</strong> ROTH, H. Ling. <strong><em> The Aborigines of Tasmania. </em></strong>F. King & Sons: Halifax (England), 1899. Assisted by Marion E. Butler; and Jas. Backhouse Walker, of Hobart, Tasmania, with a Chapter on the Osteology by J.G. Garson, M.D. Preface by Edward B. Taylor. Illustrated. Second edition, revised and enlarged, with Map. 225 copies only. xx, 228, ciii (appendices & index)pp, frontis, 21 plates, text illus & figures, folding map at rear. Original green cloth, blind rules on the boards, gilt titles on spine, extremities slightly rubbed. The edges darkened but a nice clean copy. Very good. Scarce. <em> ***The first edition was limited to 200 copies; this revised edition is generally preferred. </em><em>#18825 </em><strong>$A1100.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[94]</strong> RUBENSTEIN, Hilary L. <strong><em> The Jews in Victoria 1835-1985. </em></strong>George Allen & Unwin: Sydney, 1986. First edition, special issue: #353 of 1000 copies signed by the Chairman and President of the Jewish Museum. Square 8vo. 284pp, illus. Original faux red leather cloth with dustwrapper, and matching slipcase. Very good. Bookplate of Rodney Davidson. <em> </em><em>#26293 </em><strong>$A75.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[95]</strong><strong><em> Sassafras: a history of its settlement and people. </em></strong>Printed by Geneva Press: Latrobe (Tas.), 1988. 126pp, illus. Soft covers, slight crease top corner of rear cover. Owner's name. Very good. <em> </em><em>#5024 </em><strong>$A30.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[96]</strong> SCHAFFER, Irene & Thelma McKay. <strong><em> Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders exiled in Van Diemen's Land 1807-13. </em></strong>St David's Park Publ.: Hobart, 1992. 1st edition. 244pp, with index. Original pictorial cloth. Very good+. <em> </em><em>#5028 </em><strong>$A70.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[97]</strong> SHARP, Andrew. <strong><em> The Discovery of Australia. </em></strong>OUP: Oxford, 1963. 1st ed. 338pp, 19 maps (1 folding). Original cloth with dustwrapper (spine browned, chipped at head and tail, now in protective sleeve). Owner's details on front free endpaper. Very good. <em> </em><em>#5341 </em><strong>$A50.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[98]</strong> SHAW, A.G.L. <strong><em> Convicts and the Colonies. A Study of Penal transportation from Great Britain and Ireland to Australia and other parts of the British Empire. </em></strong>Faber: London, 1966. 1st ed. 399pp. Original cloth with dustwrapper (price-clipped). Owner's details on front free endpaper. Very good. <em> </em><em>#7758 </em><strong>$A65.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[99]</strong> SIMS, Peter C. <strong><em> The Norfolk Settlers of Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land. </em></strong>Author: Quoiba (Tas.), 1987. 1st edition. No. 432 of 500 copies, signed by the author. 4to. 356pp, well illustrated. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Owner's details top corner of ffep. Very good. <em> </em><em>#5333 </em><strong>$A325.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[100]</strong> SKEMP, John Rowland. <strong><em> Memories of Myrtle Bank: the bush-farming experiences of Rowland and Samuel Skemp in North-East Tasmania, 1883-1948. </em></strong>MUP: Melbourne, 1952. 1st edition. 256pp, illus. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Slight offsetting on endpapers; top edges a little spotted. A nice clean copy. Very good. <em> </em><em>#9600 </em><strong>$A75.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[101]</strong> SMEE, Dr C.J. (ed) <strong><em> First Fleet Families of Australia, containing genealogical details of four hundred & fifty six First Fleeters, their children and grandchildren. </em></strong>Editor: Sydney, 1988. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original black cloth, head of spine a trifle bumped. Owner's details on front free endpaper. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26639 </em><strong>$A220.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[102]</strong> SMEE, Dr C.J. (ed) <strong><em> Second Fleet Families of Australia, containing genealogical details of three hundred & forty nine Second Fleeters, their children and grandchildren. </em></strong>Editor: Sydney, 1990. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original black cloth. Owner's details on front free endpaper. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26640 </em><strong>$A220.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[103]</strong> SMEE, Dr C.J. (ed) <strong><em> Third Fleet Families of Australia, containing genealogical details of three hundred & eleven Third Fleeters, their children and grandchildren. </em></strong>Editor: Sydney, 1991. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original black cloth. Owner's details on front free endpaper. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26641 </em><strong>$A180.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[104]</strong> SMEE, Dr C.J. (ed) <strong><em> Fourth Fleet Families of Australia, containing genealogical details of two hundred & five Fourth Fleeters, their children and grandchildren. </em></strong>Editor: Sydney, 1991. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original black cloth. Owner's details on front free endpaper. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26642 </em><strong>$A100.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[105]</strong> SMEE, Dr C.J. (ed). <strong><em> The Pioneer Register, second edition - Volume IV. Containing genealogical details of five hundred pioneers, their children and grandchildren. </em></strong>The Pioneer Register: Sydney, 1992. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original black cloth, no dustwrapper, as issued. Owner's details on front free endpaper. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26970 </em><strong>$A55.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[106]</strong> SMEE, Dr C.J. (ed). <strong><em> The Pioneer Register, second edition - Volume V. Containing genealogical details of five hundred pioneers, their children and grandchildren. </em></strong>The Pioneer Register: Sydney, 1995. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original black cloth, no dustwrapper, as issued. Owner's details on small label stuck to front free endpaper. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26971 </em><strong>$A55.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[107]</strong> SPOTSWOOD, Christopher. (ed) <strong><em> Voyage of Will Rogers to the South Pole. </em></strong>Printed at the Examiner and Tasmanian Office: Launceston, 1888. Small 8vo. 40pp. Stapled & bound in semi-stiff cloth-covered wrappers cut flush, slight wear at head of spine, a little flecking and a few marks to the upper wrapper. Patterned endpapers. Slight rusting of the staples evident and the first two leaves a little strained against the staples. Short clean tear to top edge of rear endpaper, owner's name on front free endpaper. Otherwise clean and in good+ condition. Very scarce. <em> *** 'Fantastic traveller's tale of an Antarctic people, called Bencolians, in the 'forties; with reference to whaling from Van Diemen's Land.' (Morris Miller, 1940). </em><em>#26827 </em><strong>$A875.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[108]</strong> SPROD, Dan (ed). <strong><em> The Tregurtha Log: relating the adventurous life of Captain Edward Primrose Tregurtha. The Napoleonic Wars - The East India Company's China run - Whaling in the South Seas - Shipmaster to the Port Phillip District. </em></strong>Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 1980. No. VIII of XXV copies thus, signed by the editor. F'cap folio. 165pp, frontis portrait and two colour plates (tipped-in), other illus, ep maps. Full maroon calf, gilt titles and rules on spine, ship decoration in gilt on upper board. Fine. <em> ***Captain Tregurtha ended his career sailing from the port of Launceston in northern Tasmania. </em><em>#18025 </em><strong>$A350.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[109]</strong> SPROD, Dan (ed). <strong><em> Van Diemen's Land Revealed: Flinders and Bass and their circumnavigation of the island in the Colonial Sloop Norfolk 1798-1799. </em></strong>Blubber Head Press: Hobart, 2009. 25 copies thus: bound in half leather, numbered I-XXV and signed by the editor. Large 8vo. x, 256pp; frontis portraits, 12pp b&w illustrations, 3 charts folded in pocket at end. Fine. <em> ***Matthew Flinders and George Bass have been given considerable recognition in publications relating to their lives and achievements. One major exploit - their successful circumnavigation of Van Diemen’s Land in 1798 and 1799 in the sloop Norfolk, which established beyond doubt the existence of Bass Strait and that Van Diemen’s Land was an island - has been overlooked to the extent that no separate work brings together source materials relating to the voyage. Van Diemen's Land Revealed is compiled to correct this deficiency, and presents original accounts written by the two adventurers together with commentary, notes and references, a bibliography and index. The account includes the earlier, and progressive, voyages by Bass from Sydney Cove to Western Port (in Tom Thumb I & II and in a whaleboat) and of Flinders to the wreck of the Sydney Cove. A facsimile of Flinders' most rare pamphlet 'Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen’s Land, on Bass’s Strait and its Islands, and on part of the Coasts of New South Wales', published in London in 1801 - together with the three important charts which were intended to accompany the pamphlet - is also reproduced. </em><em>#27049 </em><strong>$A285.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[110]</strong> SPROD, Dan (ed). <strong><em> Van Diemen's Land Revealed: Flinders and Bass and their circumnavigation of the island in the Colonial Sloop Norfolk 1798-1799. </em></strong> [as above]: The standard issue of 750 copies only. Large 8vo. x, 256pp; frontis portraits, 12pp b&w illustrations, 3 charts folded in pocket at end. Case-bound with dustwrapper. Fine. <em> </em><em>#27048 </em><strong>$A77.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[111]</strong> SPROD, Dan. <strong><em> Alexander Pearce of Macquarie Harbour. Convict - Bushranger - Cannibal. </em></strong>Cat & Fiddle Press: Hobart, 1977. 1st edition. #90 of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. 173pp, frontis, 8 illus, endpaper map. Original red cloth, stamped with the broad arrow, with dustwrapper (slight sunning of spine). Very good to fine. <em> </em><em>#6098 </em><strong>$A150.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[112]</strong> Sprod, George Napier. <strong><em> That Odd Mr Sprod: cartoons by George Napier Sprod. </em></strong>Sprod family: Adelaide, 2009. Text by Dan Sprod. Oblong 4to. 108pp, illustrated. With - SPROD: cartoons by that Odd Mr Sprod (exhibition catalogue, 16pp, illustrated in b&w with colour highlights; stapled in wrappers), text by David Sprod. <em> ***Adelaide-born George Sprod (1919-2003) began his cartooning career in Changi Prison during WW2 - the Australian War Memorial holds copies of 'Smoke-oh' the camp magazine which he edited and illustrated - and subsequently worked as a cartoonist and illustrator in Australia and England (1949-69), where he was a frequent presence in Punch magazine. </em><em>#26969 </em><strong>$A44.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[113]</strong> Stansall, Rev. M.E.J. et al. <strong><em> Tasmanian Methodism 1820-1975. Compiled at the time of the last Meeting of Methodism prior to Union. </em></strong>Methodist Synod & Conference: [Hobart?], [1975.] Small 4to. 92pp, illustrated, double-page map on inside of covers. Stapled in stiff wrappers, slightly browned around the edges. Clean inside. Very good. <em> </em><em>#21428 </em><strong>$A30.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[114]</strong> STONEY, Capt. H. Butler. <strong><em> A Residence in Tasmania: with a descriptive tour through the island, from Macquarie Harbour to Circular Head. </em></strong>Smith, Elder & Co.: London, 1856. Ferguson 16295. First London, and first illustrated, edition (originally published as A Year in Tasmania… with map but no plates in Hobart Town, 1854). vi, [ii], 312pp (last colophon only), 16pp publisher's advertisements (dated Feb 1856), frontis & 7 plates with tissue guards, vignette title, double-page folding map, 6 text illustrations. Original green blind-decorated cloth, clean and bright with the extremities only a little rubbed. The edges are somewhat browned, offsetting on the tissue guards and a little light spotting to the plates and browning of text pages but generally clean. One early signature slightly loose. Contemporary gift inscription on verso of frontis. Otherwise a good to very good copy in the original publisher's binding. <em> </em><em>#26826 </em><strong>$A650.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[115]</strong> Summers, Ronnie (with Helen Gee). <strong><em> Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman. </em></strong>Magabala Books: Broome, WA, 2009. Large 8vo. 148pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, with CD inserted in rear pocket. Soft covers. Fine (new). <em> ***Summers was born and grew up on Cape Barren Island. After moving to the Tasmanian mainland, like many of his generation, he kept alive the musical traditions of the Aboriginal community of 'Islanders': a mix of cajun, blues, country and Irish folk which is now recognised as rare example of Australian musical folklore. </em><em>#27030 </em><strong>$A30.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[116]</strong> SWIRE, Herbert. <strong><em> The Voyage of the Challenger. A Personal Narrative of the Historic Circumnavigation of the Globe 1872-1876, by Navigating Sub-Lieutenant Herbert Swire, R.N. </em></strong>Golden Cockerel Press: London, 1938. Illustrated with reproductions from paintings and drawings from his journals. The edition limited to 300 sets and printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type on Van Gelder paper: this is no. 187. 2 volumes. Folio. 192 & 170pp, coloured frontis in each volume, 7 coloured plates & other b&w illus, double-page map on endpapers of Vol I. Original quarter white buckram and blue cloth, spines gilt, in matching cloth-covered slip-case. Small stain at foot of slip-case, which is a little spotted inside; the volumes in fine condition. The bookplate of Rodney Davidson on the front paste-downs of each volume. <em> </em><em>#11494 </em><strong>$A1875.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[117]</strong> Tasmania: <strong><em> Facts on Tasmania. </em></strong>The Examiner Group: Launceston, 1961.? Folio. [48]pp, 20 full-page coloured maps. Bound with brass screws in stiff coloured wrappers (a little slight discolouration and corners a trifle rubbed). Very good. <em> ***Published by Launceston's W.R. Rolph & Sons 'to provide readily accessible detailed information on the Tasmanian economy'. The attractive coloured maps are faced with tabulated information, drawn from the Commonwealth Statistician and covering the latter half of the 1950s, and on occasion up to 1961. The topics are: municipalities and newspaper distribution; population distribution; radio and TV; retail sales/outlets; northern Tas retail; hydro-electricity; northern secondary industries; land utilisation & farm mechanisation; principal crops (acreage); principal crops (production); orchards & small fruits; potatoes, freezing & canning vegetables; livestock; sheep & wool; beef cattle; dairy; education; road, rail & shipping; transportation & tourism; forest resources & timber. Each map also indicates the penetration of the group's newspaper (The Examiner) and radio station (7EX). </em><em>#25499 </em><strong>$A85.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[118]</strong> Tasmanian Historical Research Association. <strong><em> Tasmanian Historical Research Association: Papers and Proceedings. Volumes 2-54. </em></strong>THRA: Hobart, 1952.-2007 A complete run from Volume 2 (1952) to Volume 54 (2007). Except for Volume 2, which is duplicated typescript, stapled in wrappers, as issued. Some of the earlier issues have slightly worn spines; Volume 2 is housed in a plastic binder (two holes punched) and the first, and the last two, leaves are a little ragged at the edges. Otherwise a very good set. <em> ***An important collection of historical essays about Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania. The first two volumes (in roneoed typescript) are very hard to find - this set lacks the first volume only. All the issues from Vol 3 were commercially printed and stapled in printed wrappers. Volume 3 has 6 parts; thereafter there are in most cases four volumes per year in that format (a few volumes combined two issues). ***Three cumulative indexes are now available for this journal - for Volumes 1-30; 31-40; and 41-50. We can supply all of these - please enquire. </em><em>#26864 </em><strong>$A750.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[119]</strong> Theocritos: translated by Jack Lindsay. <strong><em> Theocritos. the complete poems. </em></strong>Fanfrolico Press: London, nd [1929.] With woodcuts by Lionel Ellis and an Introduction by Edward Hutton. #477 of 500 copies. 4to. xxiv, 164pp, 20 full-page woodcut illustrations, with tissue guards. Original green papered boards, gilt illustration on the upper, spine a little faded. Top edges gilt, others uncut. A very nice clean copy. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26294 </em><strong>$A295.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[120]</strong> TILLEY, Wilberton. <strong><em> The Wild West of Tasmania: being a description of the silverfields of Zeehan and Dundas. </em></strong>Evershed Bros.: Zeehan and Dundas, 1891. Ferguson 17173. vi, 94pp (last blank), frontis (actually follows List of Illustrations, which also describes it as 'double-page' but it is in fact two illustrations on one page), 9 other plates, xxv pp adverts (p.xxv is rear paste-down). Cloth-backed illustrated papered boards (view of Mount Zeehan on cover), the extremities rubbed, exposing the board at the corners and along parts of the edges, a little silverfishing. Virtually every copy of this book suffers from water damage: this one has the red cloth backstrip faded (or washed-out), the illustrated covers also a little faded but the colour still clear; some damp spotting to the inner margins of some pages; the boards are very slightly bowed (both in the same direction); edges a bit soiled but pages clean and no sign of adhesion. In short a good to very good copy of this usually damaged item. <em> </em><em>#19589 </em><strong>$A220.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[121]</strong> TIPPING, Marjorie (ed. and intro. by). <strong><em> Ludwig Becker: artist and naturalist with the Burke & Wills expedition. </em></strong>MUP: Melbourne, 1979. 4to, xiii, 224pp, illus. Linen covered boards with dustwrapper, and the publisher's clear plastic sleeve (rubbed). Very good to fine. <em> ***Becker's letters, reports and illustrations published complete and unabridged for the first time. </em><em>#6878 </em><strong>$A175.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[122]</strong> Walch & Sons: <strong><em> Walch's Tasmanian Almanac and Guide to Tasmania for 1865... Third year of publication. </em></strong>J. Walch & Sons: Hobart, 1865. Not in Ferguson (but see Ferg 18046 for the preliminary issue of 1862). xxiv, [1-25], 26-178, [2], 78pp (advertisements, pagination extends to the free endpaper). Original red cloth over stiff boards with title label on the upper, cut flush, a few small stains (most on the lower board), extremities rubbed, several silverfish holes in the cloth on the spine. Blue endpapers printed with the publisher's advertisements. The charts of signals (pp82&83) are a little spotted, slight brownish damp mark to head- and fore-margins of the first few leaves, otherwise clean. A good copy of the third of these famous almanacs. <em> </em><em>#26497 </em><strong>$A375.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[123]</strong> Walch & Sons: <strong><em> Walch's Tasmanian Almanac and Guide to Tasmania for 1868... Sixth year of publication. </em></strong>J. Walch & Sons: Hobart, 1868. Not in Ferguson (but see Ferg 18046 for the preliminary issue of 1862). xviii, [1-25], 26-220, ii, [2], 66pp (advertisements, pagination extends to the free endpaper). Original red cloth with title in gilt on the upper; a little faded, more so on spine, extremities a trifle rubbed. Endpapers printed with the publisher's advertisements. Signal charts present and clean; indeed all pages nice and clean. A very good copy of the sixth of these famous almanacs. <em> </em><em>#26500 </em><strong>$A275.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[124]</strong> Walch & Sons: <strong><em> Walch's Tasmanian Almanac and Guide to Tasmania for 1869... Seventh year of publication. </em></strong>J. Walch & Sons: Hobart, 1869. Not in Ferguson (but see Ferg 18046 for the preliminary issue of 1862). xvi, [1-25], 26-206, ii, 62pp (advertisements, pagination extends to the free endpaper). Original red cloth with title in gilt on the upper; faded, more so on spine, extremities a little rubbed and a small ink stain on the lower board, head of upper joint with 1cm tear to the cloth. Endpapers printed with the publisher's advertisements. Signal charts present and slightly spotted. Contemporary owner's name at head of title-page, a few notations on the memoranda pages; other pages clean. A good copy of the seventh of these famous almanacs. <em> </em><em>#26501 </em><strong>$A225.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[125]</strong> Walch & Sons: <strong><em> Walch's Tasmanian Almanac and Guide to Tasmania for 1870... Eighth year of publication. </em></strong>J. Walch & Sons: Hobart, 1870. Not in Ferguson (but see Ferg 18046 for the preliminary issue of 1862). xvi, [1-25], 26-200, ii, [2], 60pp (advertisements), 40pp Walch's Christmas and New Year's Catalogue of gift, prize and reward books (December 1869), [4]pp (two folding advertisements). Original red cloth with title in gilt on the upper; a little faded, more so on spine, extremities only a trifle rubbed. Endpapers printed with the publisher's advertisements. Signal charts present and clean; indeed all pages nice and clean, apart from some notations on the memoranda pages. A very good copy of the eighth of these famous almanacs. <em> </em><em>#26503 </em><strong>$A275.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[126]</strong> WALKER, Bryan (collector, arranger, annotator). <strong><em> The Fragments of The Perpetual Edict of Salvius Julianus. </em></strong>Cambridge University Press: London, 1877. Octavo. 138pp, 1pp publisher's advertisements. Index. Original cloth (extremities rubbed, light fraying at corners, minor silverfish nibbles). Uncut edges, foxing on endpapers and title page, light spotting on edges. Owner's name on front free endpaper. Good to very good. <em> ***Salvius Julianus, or Julian the Jurist (c100-170), the Roman imperial jurist and public official. </em><em>#26129 </em><strong>$A175.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[127]</strong> WEST, John. <strong><em> The History of Tasmania. </em></strong>Angus & Robertson / RAHS: Sydney, 1971. Edited (with introduction and annotations) by A.G.L. Shaw. 1st edition thus (first published 1852). xxii, 700pp, 27 illus, folding map. Original cloth with dustwrapper (extremities rubbed, now in protective sleeve). Top edges lightly spotted, the others a little yellowed, but a nice clean copy. Very good. <em> ***With Prof. Shaw's valuable notes and introduction. </em><em>#5176 </em><strong>$A95.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[128]</strong> WESTGARTH, William. <strong><em> Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne & Victoria. </em></strong>George Robertson: Melbourne, 1888. 1st edition. iv, 178pp, frontis portrait with tissue guard. Original cloth, blind rules, gilt titles on spine, a few small stains or marks on each boards, but in nice condition. Edges spotted, and a little spotting on endpaper versos and adjacent leaves, but a nice clean copy. Very good. <em> </em><em>#26625 </em><strong>$A150.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[129]</strong> Willelmi Malmesbiriensus Monachi [William of Malmesbury] <strong><em> Gesta Regum Anglorum, atque Historia Novella. </em></strong>Sumptibus Societatis [English Historical Society]: Londoni, 1840. Ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum recensuit Thomas Duffus Hardy. 2 volumes. iv, 1-388 & xxviii, 389-816pp, includes list of EHS members. Verso of half-title is printed 'The Viscount Dungannon M.P. / Member's copy'. Original half-leather and pebbled cloth, gilt spine titles and blind rules, the extremities a little rubbed. Slight offsetting on endpapers, the red-sprinkled edges a little darkened. Owner's name on each ffep, his pencilled translation of a few words in the margins of the first 10pp, and his short pencilled index-style notations on each rear free endpaper. A very good set. <em> ***William of Malmesbury's 'Deeds of the English Kings', the text in Latin, notes in English. </em><em>#26145 </em><strong>$A350.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[130]</strong> Willelmi Parvi de Newburgh [William Petit of Newburgh] <strong><em> Historia Rerum Anglicarum. </em></strong>Sumptibus Societatis [English Historical Society]: Londoni, 1846. Willelmi Parvi, ordinus sancti Augustini Canonici regularis in Coenobio Beatae Mariae de Newburgh in agro eboracensi. Ad fidem codicum manuscriptorum recensuit Hans Claude Hamilton. 2 volumes. xii, 288 & viii, 219pp, includes a Preface in English and index. Original half-leather and pebbled cloth, gilt spine titles and blind rules, the extremities a little rubbed. Slight offsetting on endpapers, the red-sprinkled edges a little darkened. Owner's name on each ffep and his short pencilled index-style notations on each rear free endpaper. A very good set. <em> ***The 12th-century 'History of the Affairs of England', by William Petit (or Parvus), of the Abbey of Austin Canons of Newburgh, in the North Riding of Yorkshire. The text in Latin, preface and notes in English. </em><em>#26146 </em><strong>$A150.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[131]</strong> WILLIAMS, Rev, Thos. <strong><em> Assiduity: being a memoir of the late Mr. Richard H. Hart of Stawell (sometime President of the Australian Natives' Association). </em></strong>Printed by F.W. Niven: Ballarat, 1886. Published under the auspices of the Australian Natives' Association. 8vo. [viii], iv & [5]-238, mounted photographic portrait print as frontis, with tissue guard. Original plum(?) cloth, faded, with gilt title on the upper board. A little foxing on the tissue guard and title-page, otherwise a nice clean copy. Two owners' names on a preliminary blank. Ferguson 18603: 'the biography of a teacher and professor of music, who supported and organized many public movements in Stawell and Ballarat. He died prematurely after winning great public esteem'. <em> </em><em>#26835 </em><strong>$A425.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[132]</strong> WINTERSON, Jeanette. <strong><em> The Passion. </em></strong>Bloomsbury: London, 1987. 1st edition. Original cloth-textured papered boards, gilt, with dustwrapper (not price-clipped). [x], 160, [2]pp; place ribbon. Fine. ***Signed by the author on title-page. <em> </em><em>#25536 </em><strong>$A220.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[133]</strong> WOLLASTON, T.C. <strong><em> Opal: the gem of the Never Never. </em></strong>Thomas Murby & Co.: London, 1924. 1st edition. xii, 164pp, 3 colour and 11 b&w plates, map of Australia showing principal opal fields. Original cloth, gilt titles on spine and upper board, extremities very slightly rubbed, a little light flecking. Edges and endpapers slightly spotted, but very crisp and clean inside. Short gift inscription. Very good. <em> </em><em>#11519 </em><strong>$A300.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[134]</strong> WORGAN, George. <strong><em> Sydney Cove Journal: 20 January - 11 July 1788. </em></strong>Banks Society: Melbourne, 2009. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by John Currey. 140pp, 14 illustrations. Stiff card covers with dustwrapper. Fine (new). <em> ***Worgan was surgeon on the Sirius and a careful recorder of Arthur Phillip's efforts to establish the fledgling colony of NSW. </em><em>#26361 </em><strong>$A38.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>[135]</strong> WRIGHT, Reg. <strong><em> The Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land. </em></strong>Library of Australian History: Sydney, 1986. 198pp, illus. Original plasticised cloth with dustwrapper (spine quite faded). Owner's details at top corner of ffep, three pages with a little underlining and one with a correction to a name (all in ink). Otherwise a nice clean copy. Very good. <em> </em><em>#5206 </em><strong>$A110.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <P ALIGN="LEFT"><center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border=2 bgcolor=FFFFCC><TR><td ALIGN="LEFT" > <strong>Addendum: [136]</strong> GILMOUR, Don <strong><em> Trout Fishery of Tasmania. Volume I (1865-1910). Volume II (1910-1950). Volume III (1950-1999). </em></strong>Author: Launceston (Tas.), 1996.-98. 3 volumes (complete). Limited edition of 300 copies (not stated) - this set has the author's signature only in Volume I, and none of the volumes are numbered. 158/166/163pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, includes an index in Vol III. Full leather and matching slip-cases. The slip-case of Vol I is in plain matching cloth; that is, it does not have the gilt titles and inset illustration on the upper face, nor the blurb laid onto the lower. All fine. <em> </em><em>#26614 </em><strong>$A750.00</strong><br /></td></tr></table></center><p> <center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border="2" bgcolor=FFFFCC background=> <tr> <td > <center><table cellpadding=6 width="96%" border="2" bgcolor=FFFFCC background=> <tr> <td > <center><font size =3><hr size =3>To check which items remain unsold and order any of these <b><i>securely</b></i> <a href="http://www.booksandcollectibles.com.au/esearch.php3?restrict2=34&type=SUB&search_string=cat55"> <B>click here</B></a></center><center><hr size =3><font size =3>[Back to <a href=../index.html > <B> Astrolabe Booksellers </B></a>home page] </center> </body></html>