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Price: $45.00
Publisher: Glenorchy City Council: 1986
Seller ID: 5077
Sketches and maps by Mollie Tomlin. 382pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (a few closed short clean tears along top edges, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ***Traces the history of Glenorchy from its early days as a farming settlement through urbanisation, to the achievement of city status in 1964. View more info
By: BENNETT, Olive (and others).
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Ringarooma (Tas), Authors?: [1988]
Seller ID: 15133
4to. 116pp, illustrated; index. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Geeveston (Tas.), Author: 1988
Seller ID: 5336
4to. 96pp, map. Case-bound in synthetic cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy ***Colour photography. View more info
By: BESWICK, John.
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Gravelly Beach (Tas), Author: 2003
Seller ID: 36256
'Copy no 40' and the author's signature on the dedication page, but no limitation indicated. Small 4to. 352pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, with 3 folding (double-sided) plates/map. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0975121316 ***Derby, in north-east Tasmania, was an important tin-mining centre in an agricultural district. View more info
By: BESWICK, John.
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Gravelly Beach (Tas), Author: 2003
Seller ID: 20758
Small 4to. 352pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, with 3 folding (double-sided) plates/map. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0975121308 ***Derby, in north-east Tasmania, was an important tin-mining centre in an agricultural district. View more info
By: BETHELL, L.S.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Hobart, Education Dept.: [1957].
Seller ID: 5266
First edition. x, 194pp, 9 maps/plans, illustrated in black and white, index. Original pictorial wrappers (slight fading of spine, otherwise very bright). A very good clean copy. View more info
By: BETHELL, L.S.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1980
Seller ID: 5267
x, 194pp, [10]pp index, 9 maps/plans, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Facsimile reprint of 1957 edition. View more info
By: Bothwell: ELLIS, Shauna (ed).
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Bothwell Historical Society: 2001
Seller ID: 13606
4to. 280pp, well illustrated. Soft covers. In fine clean condition. ISBN 095792500X View more info
By: Campbell Town:
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Campbell Town Council: 1966
Seller ID: 15733
Compiled by the Historical Committee of the National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). Published in an edition of 1000 numbered copies signed by the Warden - this is #792. 4to. 356pp, illustrations, endpaper maps, index. Pictorial cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. View more info
By: CARINS, Peter.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Winnaleah, Tasmania, Author?: 1999
Seller ID: 36102
4to. 54pp, coloured frontis & b&w illustrations. Stapled in stiff wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646382543 ***In north-eat Tasmania. 'Nekah' is Aboriginal for 'round hill'. View more info
By: CORDWELL, Stanley; Joe Cowburn & Rita Cox.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: New Norfolk, Tasmania, New Norfolk Council Historical & Information Centre: nd
Seller ID: 35905
Numbered edition (this is #372) but limitation not stated, signed by the authors. Oblong 4to. 26pp, illus, 54 leaves of burial records, printed rectos only. Staple-bound in cloth-backed soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646157477 View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New Norfolk Council: 1987
Seller ID: 22443
4to. 174pp, illustrated. Soft covers; some darkening of the spine and a few light spots. Slight bumping of top corners, otherwise a goo+d clean copy. ISBN 1862523037 View more info
By: DAVENPORT, Bill & Ruth Amos
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Swansea, Glamorgan Council: 2000
Seller ID: 33127
Reprint. 198pp, illustrated. Soft covers. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Printed by Richmond Printers: 1990
Seller ID: 36267
First edition. Published for the Wilmot Reunion. 178pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Signed by the author. Owner's name. ISBN 0646027654 View more info
By: GARDAM, Faye.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Devonport Maritime Museum & Historical Society: 2001
Seller ID: 30801
Small 4to. 144pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Signed by the author, and with another gift inscription, both on the half-title. ISBN 0959321942 View more info
By: GARDAM, Faye.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Author: 1996
Seller ID: 36268
4to. 374pp., 6 maps, 160 b&w photos. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Signed by the author. ***The Don, a few km west of Devonport in NW Tasmania, was first settled in the 1840s. View more info
By: GEEVES, Lance.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Franklin (Tas), Huon Newspaper Co.: 1988
Seller ID: 15849
232pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0731645847 ***The dustwrapper adds 'A history of the origin, culture and characteristics of people who settled the Great South Land'. Based on the author's family history, a story of pioneering in the Huon district of southern Tasmania, especially around Geeveston. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Tasmania, [Glenorchy Council: 1964]
Seller ID: 4651
Oblong 8vo. 87pp, illus. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. *** Cover title 'A Century in Glenorchy 1864-1964'. View more info
By: GOC, Nicola.
Price: $350.00
Publisher: Hobart, Gentrx Publications: 1997
Seller ID: 36112
4to. 344pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w, place ribbon. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy ISBN 0646331221 ***The half-title adds: 'a social history'. The print-run of 1000 copies sold out within a few months of publication. View more info
By: GRAY, F. Oliver.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Richard Lord: 1978
Seller ID: 36040
Second edition (750 copies). 58pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0959747311 ***First published privately in an edition of 35 copies. View more info
By: GRAY, F. Oliver.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Hobart, Richard Lord: 1978
Seller ID: 20376
Second edition. 750 copies. 58pp, illus. Soft covers. Ex-library: covered in contact plastic, pocket removed inside front cover; library stamp & label on title-page, but the text unmarked. A good copy. ***First published privately in an edition of 35 copies. View more info
By: HAMMOND, David & Annie Rushton Nuss.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Huonville (Tas), Southern Holdings: 1987
Seller ID: 6037
Large oblong 4to. 100pp, well illustrated. Soft covers with dustwrapper (slight fading near spine, a few short closed tears, both as often, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. Gift inscription. ISBN 0949089052 View more info
By: HOOKWAY, Eileen; Jeff Jennings & Phil Page (compiled and edited by).
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Scottsdale (Tas), Scott's New Country Committee: 1981
Seller ID: 36276
Celebrating the Centenary of the North Eastern Agricultural & Pastoral Society, 1881-1981. Revised edition. Large 8vo. 228pp, illustrations, coloured map, 3 folding plates (one with town plan). Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Owner's name. ***Signed by Jeff Jennings. ISBN 0959438408 View more info
By: JENNINGS, J.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Bridport, Author: 1983
Seller ID: 4455
4to. xvi, 220pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Mid-brown cloth with dustwrapper (a little creased at head of spine, with internal tape repair). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0959210105 View more info
By: JERVIS, James : chapters XXIII & XXIV by A.V.J. Parry.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Sydney, Library of Australian History: 1978
Seller ID: 36145
Reprint of the revised edition of 1973. 214pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned). A very good clean copy. Owner's name. ISBN 090812015X View more info
By: JETSON, Tim.
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Launceston, Pelion Press: 1989
Seller ID: 35892
Small 4to. 174pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0731672143 ***The only thorough work on this 'remote and little-known region of rugged beauty and unpredictable weather': the Aboriginal inhabitants; European exploration; bushrangers; the development of the pastoral, fishing and fur industries; and the generation of hydro-electricity. View more info
By: KERRISON, Janet.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Beaconsfield, Rotary Club: 1963
Seller ID: 4412
48pp, illustrated with b&w photographs, map, mine plan. Stapled in wrappers. Very good. View more info
By: LESTER, Suzanne.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Hobart, Artemis [for the Author]: 1994
Seller ID: 36279
4to. 244pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Owner's name. ISBN 0646210610 View more info
By: LORD, Gwenda M.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Taroona, Tas, Richard Lord & Partners: 1998
Seller ID: 30680
4to. 104pp, illustrated, corrigenda slip (at p97). Soft covers; minor scuff top corner of front cover. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646324543 View more info
By: MASTERS, David (and others).
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Launceston, Mary Fisher Bookshop: 1984
Seller ID: 8943
Second edition [impression]. 118pp, illus. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0959143203 ***In Tasmania's Fingal Valley. View more info
By: McMANUS, Tim.
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Falmouth, Author: 1993
Seller ID: 36283
4to. [xi], xiii, 390, [34]pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Case-bound in cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***Signed by the author, on title-page. ISBN 0646083457 View more info
By: Meredith, Louisa & Daniel Griffin.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Launceston, Regal Press: nd
Seller ID: 5837
137pp, b&w photographs. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0949457019 ***Extracts from Meredith's My Home in Tasmania (1852) and Griffin's Deloraine Past & Present (articles in The Daily Telegraph, 1893-94). View more info
By: MILLER, G. & S.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Hobart, OBM: 1979
Seller ID: 6069
1000 copies. Small 4to. 106pp, 3 colour and numerous b&w illustrations, endpaper maps. Cloth with dustwrapper (spine slightly faded, now in protective sleeve).A very good clean copy. ***One of relatively few books on this quarter of Tasmania, covering its early history (including the Aborigines and the Bass Strait islands), much on the mining fields of the N-E (including the once sizeable Chinese community), as well as farming, fishing and timber. View more info
By: PHILLIPS, Joan.
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Robigana (Tas), Author: 1982
Seller ID: 20553
xxii, 89pp, illus. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine. ***The West Tamar, in Tasmania's north. View more info
By: PINK, Kerry & Annette Ebdon.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Smithton, Circular Head History Group: 1988
Seller ID: 36041
#199 of 250 copies, signed by the authors (the numbering is at the foot of the rear blurb of the wrapper, the signatures on the title-page). 268pp, illustrated, index. Maroon cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0731632885 View more info
By: PINK, Kerry.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Burnie (Tasmania), Burnie Port Authority: 1995
Seller ID: 28810
xii, 146pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine. ISBN 0724641831 ***Continues on from Peter Mercer's Gateway to Progress: centenary history of the Marine Board of Burnie (1969). View more info
By: PINK, Kerry.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Zeehan, West Coast Pioneers Memorial Museum: 1982
Seller ID: 18301
First edition. 4to. 155pp, well illustrated. Soft covers. Top corner of front cover and first 10pp a little creased, otherwise a good+ clean copy. View more info
By: PINK, Kerry.
Price: $135.00
Publisher: Burnie, Harris & Co.: 1990
Seller ID: 24855
First edition. 4to. 388pp, well illustrated, general & biographical indexes. Maroon cloth, lettered in gilt, with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0731699270 View more info
By: PINK, Kerry.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Burnie, Harris & Co.: 1990
Seller ID: 5482
First edition. 4to. 388pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w, general & biographical indexes. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine quite faded). A good to very good clean copy. ISBN 0731699270 View more info
By: PINK, Kerry.
Price: $165.00
Publisher: Burnie (Tasmania), Burnie City Council: 2000
Seller ID: 36288
4to. 400pp, illustrated in b&w. Pictorial papered boards (as issued, without a dustwrapper). A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646405322 View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Sydney, Kangaroo Press: 1987
Seller ID: 33712
4to. 64pp, map, illustrations. Soft covers (a trifle marked), otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0864171277 View more info
By: PYBUS, Richard.
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Blackmans Bay (Tas), RC & BJ Pybus: 1988
Seller ID: 23511
256pp, 22pp b&w illustrations. Soft covers, spine slightly faded, slight rubbing at head and tail of spine. Owner's name. A good clean copy. WITH: 'Index to South Bruny Island...' compiled by Kathy Duncombe for the Bruny Island Historical Society (50pp, stapled in wrappers, stamp of Bruny Is Community Library inside front cover and associated inscription at head of front cover, both cancelled; a very good clean copy). ISBN 0731636244 View more info
By: RAE, Lou.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Ulverstone (Tas.), Author: 1993
Seller ID: 36290
4to. 94pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0959209840 ***Mines, rail- and tramways and townships. View more info
By: REID, Owen.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hobart, Curriculum Centre, Education Department: 1977
Seller ID: 11119
4to. 62pp, illus. Stapled in stiif pictorial wrappers. Very good. ***Includes the Fingal Valley and St Helens districts. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Launceston Library: 2005
Seller ID: 13865
Published with support of the Friends of the Launceston Library. Oblong 4to. 180pp, well illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0957937903 ***The first of a series of three: a collection of 85 short pieces on the history of the Tamar River (from the city of Launceston to Bass Strait), first published in the local press, and each accompanied by an illustration. View more info
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Launceston Library: 2005
Seller ID: 20638
Published with support of the Friends of the Launceston Library. Third impression. Oblong 4to. 180pp, illustrated. Soft covers, extremities slightly rubbed; otherwise a good clean copy. Owner's name at head of title-page. ISBN 0957937903 ***The first of a series of three: a collection of 85 short pieces on the history of the Tamar River (from the city of Launceston to Bass Strait), first published in the local press, and each accompanied by an illustration. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Launceston Library: 2003
Seller ID: 27486
Published with support of the Friends of the Launceston Library. Oblong 4to. 216pp, illustrated, folding map at rear. A fine clean copy. ISBN 095793792X ***A collection of 98 short pieces on the history of the Tamar River (from the city of Launceston to Bass Strait), first published in the local press, and each accompanied by an illustration. View more info
By: ROWNTREE, Amy.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Education Dept.: 1951
Seller ID: 20854
With Appendices on Anglesea Barracks by Brigadier E.M. Dollery and W.H. Hudspeth. First edition. 138pp, vi (index), illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Still the only published history of Hobart's historic Battery Point. View more info
By: ROWNTREE, Amy.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Adult Education Board of Tas/Melbourne University Press: 1968
Seller ID: 5005
With Appendices on Anglesea Barracks by Brigadier E.M. Dollery and W.H. Hudspeth. Reprint. 138pp, vi (index), black and white illustrations and photographs, including maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Owner's name. ***Still the only published history of Hobart's historic Battery Point. View more info
By: ROWNTREE, Amy. Illustrated by Fearn Rowntree.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Hobart, Authors?: 1959
Seller ID: 21269
#1477 of a 'limited edition'. 60pp, illustrated. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (slight chipping at head of spine, a couple of trifling stains to front, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ***The limitation is not stated, but we believe it to have been 1500 copies; the number here is hand-written, as more often than not (some are ink-stamped). View more info