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Prelude to Federation (1884-1898). Extracts from the journal of James Backhouse Walker, F.R.G.S., legal practitioner, historian, author.

By: WALKER, James Backhouse.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Hobart, OBM: 1976

Seller ID: 7069

Edited by Peter Benson Walker. 500 numbered copies, signed by the editor. 200pp, frontis portrait of JBW, illustrated, endpaper maps (Alfred Mault's 1880s overlay of the streets of central Hobart on a sketch of the original shoreline and first settlement). Pictorial papered boards with dustwrapper (chipped near head of spine). A very good clean copy in a good wrapper.
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Early Tasmania : papers read before the Royal Society of Tasmania during the years 1888 to 1899 (The Walker Memorial Volume).

By: WALKER, James Backhouse.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Hobart, Government Printer: 1973

Seller ID: 5410

Fourth impression. 294pp, 6 folding charts in rear pocket. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (spine sunned, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ***Includes early European exploration and settlement of VDL, the Norfolk Islanders deported to VDL in 1808, and three papers on the Tasmanian Aborigines (notes from the journals of G.W. Walker, tribal divisions, and a general article).
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The Deportation of the Norfolk Islanders to the Derwent in 1808. [I] The Settlement of Norfolk Island. [II] The Deportation to the Derwent.

By: WALKER, James Backhouse.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hobart,, Government Printer: 1895

Seller ID: 5158

26pp, stapled in titling wrappers (slight rusting of staples and a slightly darkened strip adjacent to spine front and rear). Uncut and partly unopened. A very good clean copy. ***First published in the Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania for 1894-95, and issued thus (and as a Parliamentary Paper) in 1895.
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Early Tasmania : papers read before the Royal Society of Tasmania during the years 1888 to 1899 (The Walker Memorial Volume).

By: WALKER, James Backhouse.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Government Printer: 1914

Seller ID: 7863

(The Walker Memorial Volume.) Second impression. 8vo. viii, 280pp, 6 folding maps. Original red cloth, spine slightly sunned and rubbed at head and tail. The edges well spotted and some foxing on early and late pages, otherwise a good to very good clean copy. ***Includes early European exploration and settlement of VDL, the Norfolk Islanders deported to VDL in 1808, and three papers on the Tasmanian Aborigines (notes from the journals of G.W. Walker, tribal divisions, and a general article).
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Walk to the West.

By: WALKER, James Backhouse.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Hobart, Royal Society of Tasmania: 1993

Seller ID: 27469

Edited by Dr Michael Stoddart. Limited to 880 copies thus (although not so stated - there was also a special issue, the subscribers for which are listed). Large 8vo; xxviii, 76pp, folding map. Cloth with dustwrapper (head of spine rubbed, now in protective sleeve). The lower edge of the upper board has a touch of light silverfishing, otherwise a very good clean copy. ***Account of an 1887 walk by lawyer/historian J.B. Walker, surveyor Sprent and others along the Linda Track to Mt Lyell, and thence to Macquarie Harbour and northwards to near Waratah. With colour and black & white illustrations...
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Walk to the West.

By: WALKER, James Backhouse.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Hobart, Royal Society of Tasmania: 1993

Seller ID: 5161

Edited by Dr Michael Stoddart. Limited to 880 copies thus (although not stated - there was also a special issue, the subscribers for which are listed). Large 8vo; xxviii, 76pp, folding map. Cloth with dustwrapper (closed tear leaving a crease at foot of front panel, head and tail of spine slightly rubbed, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ***Account of an 1887 walk by lawyer/historian J.B. Walker, surveyor Sprent and others along the Linda Track to Mt Lyell, and thence to Macquarie Harbour and northwards to near Waratah. With colour and black & white illustrations by W.C. Pig...
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Sail on the Tide: the story of Flinders Island shipping.

By: WALKER, Leedham C.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, Author: 1994

Seller ID: 5162

Small 8vo. 96pp, black & white photographs, map. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Signed by the author. ***Relates the story of the Flinders Island Shipping Co.
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Enterprise, Risk and Ruin : the stage-coach and the development of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania

By: WALKER, Steven.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Fullers Bookshop: 2016

Seller ID: 34983

Small 4to. xii, 388pp, illustrated. Soft covers with French flaps. Fine (new). ISBN 0994561199
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Enterprise, Risk and Ruin : the stage-coach and the development of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania

By: WALKER, Steven.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Hobart, Fullers Bookshop: 2016

Seller ID: 34984

Special issue of 200 copies, numbered and signed by the author. Small 4to. xii, 388pp, illustrated. Pictorial papered boards. Fine (new). ISBN 0995381402
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I Sleep in Haysheds and Corners : by ten Tasmanian writers and ten Tasmanian craft artists.

By: WALTER, Ben & Kelly Eijdenberg (eds)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Inscrutable Press: 2011

Seller ID: 29102

500 numbered copies. Square 8vo. [56]pp, illustrated in colour, printed on Spicers Freelife Vellum 140gsm. Pictorial soft covers (Spicers Freelife Felt 320gsm). Fine (new). ***Ten stories, each illustrated by a craft artist's response to it.
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Down Wapping : Hobart's vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts.

By: WAPPING History Group.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1988

Seller ID: 31134

First edition. xviii, 252pp, 80 illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine faded). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0908528175
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Down Wapping: Hobart's vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts.

By: WAPPING History Group.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1994

Seller ID: 25625

Reprint, with corrections and a new map. 8vo. xviii, 252pp, 80 illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Soft covers; spine a little faded. Owner's bookplate on half-title. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0908528264
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Down Wapping: Hobart's vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts.

By: WAPPING History Group.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1994

Seller ID: 5163

Reprint, with corrections and a new map. 8vo. xviii, 252pp, 80 illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528264
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A Reid and Shakespeare family history.

By: WARD, Malcolm.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2014

Seller ID: 33453

184pp, illustrated in b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0980307023
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Tasmanian Mammals: a field guide.

By: WATTS, Dave.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Conservation Trust: 1987

Seller ID: 14515

112pp. 38 mammals, each described and illustrated with a full-page colour plate, photographed by the author, footprint illustrations, glossary, location guide and map. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0959050043
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Tamar River Leads : creating a safe harbour entrance.

By: WATTS, John.

Price: $33.00

Publisher: George Town, Tasmania, Author: 2017

Seller ID: 35398

4to. 134pp, b&w illustrations. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ***Describes the various surveys of the dangerous mouth to Port Dalrymple (Tamar River) between 1842 and 1965, and the four sets of lead lights installed to assist navigation.
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A Hundred Years of Yachting.

By: WEBSTER, E.H. & L. Norman.

Price: $285.00

Publisher: Hobart, J. Walch & Sons (printed by): 1936

Seller ID: 20463

Issued under the auspices of the Government of Tasmania, the Hobart Marine Board, and the Hobart City Council. 256pp, well illustrated, folding panorama (2 views) at rear. Original blue reptillian cloth, title printed on spine, coloured illustration laid onto the upper board, as issued (trifling mark to lower corner). Some foxing on the endpapers, otherwise a very good+ clean copy.
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The Diaries of John Helder Wedge.

By: WEDGE, John Helder (edited by The Hon. Mr Justice Crawford, W.F.Ellis and G.H.Stancombe).

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Royal Society of Tasmania: 1963

Seller ID: 30552

Second impression (500 copies). Small 4to. xliv, 100pp, frontis portrait, full-page map, Wedge family tree, 2 illustrations. Blue cloth, as issued (without dustwrapper). In fine (unused) condition. ***Wedge, an early Van Diemen's Land surveyor and explorer, was later a member of the Port Phillip Association and a participant in the foundation of Melbourne.
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Port Arthur : a place of misery.

By: WEIDENHOFER, Maggie.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Melbourne, B. & M. Reid with Port Arthur Management Authority: 1990

Seller ID: 35890

Second edition. Oblong large 8vo. 146pp, illus. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Author's inscription. ISBN 0646000039
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Port Arthur: a place of misery.

By: WEIDENHOFER, Maggie.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Melbourne, B. & M. Reid with Port Arthur Management Authority: 1990

Seller ID: 13580

Second edition. Oblong large 8vo. 146pp, illus. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646000039
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Maria Island: a Tasmanian Eden.

By: WEIDENHOFER, Maggie.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Melbourne, B. & M. Reid in assoc with the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority: 1991

Seller ID: 23587

Foreword by Patsy Adam Smith. Third edition. Small 4to. 64pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy.
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An Intense Scutiny : photography by Stewart Wells.

By: WELLS, Stewart.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2007

Seller ID: 34730

Essay by Greg Lehman. 4to. Unpaginated, 105 colour images. Papered board with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ***Signed by Sterwart Wells. ISBN 0975723782 *** A study of the changes wrought by humans on the Tasmanian environment.
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Image for Michael Howe : the last and the worst of the bushrangers of Van Diemen's Land. Narrative of the chief atrocities committed by this great murderer and his associates during a period of six years in Van Diemen's Land. From authentic sources of information.

Michael Howe : the last and the worst of the bushrangers of Van Diemen's Land. Narrative of the chief atrocities committed by this great murderer and his associates during a period of six years in Van Diemen's Land. From authentic sources of information.

By: WELLS, T.E.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Platypus Publications: 1966

Seller ID: 4721

Facsimile reprint (of Ferguson 716) #132 of 500 numbered copies. Small 8vo. [viii], 36pp. Cloth-backed papered boards. A very good clean copy. ***A facsimile reprint of the first non-official book published in Tasmania, by Andrew Bent, Hobart Town, 1818 (see Ferguson 716). The original is extremely rare.
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Michael Howe : the last and the worst of the bushrangers of Van Diemen's Land. Narrative of the chief atrocities committed by this great murderer and his associates during a period of six years in Van Diemen's Land. From authentic sources of information.

By: WELLS,T.E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Dubbo, Review Publications: 1979

Seller ID: 6951

With an Introduction by George Mackaness. Australian Historical Monographs, reprint series. 40pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff wrappers. A very good clean copy.
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The History of Tasmania. With copious information respecting the colonies of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, &c., &c., &c.

By: WEST, John.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1981

Seller ID: 5177

(Australian Classics.) Edited, with introduction and annotations, by A.G.L. Shaw. Reprint of the 1971 edition (first published 1852). xxii, 700pp, illus, map. Papered boards with dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned). A very good clean copy. ISBN 020714334X ***The classic contemporary account of Van Diemen's Land, here with Professor Shaw's extensive notes and commentary.
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A Guide to Tasmanian Government Administration.

By: WETTENHALL, R.L.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Platypus: 1968

Seller ID: 5182

348pp. Case-bound with printed cloth. Very good.
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Image for The Whitehead Letters : Tasmanian society and politics, 1871-1882, as seen through the letterbooks of John Whitehead MHA of 'Winburn', Lymington [Nile].

The Whitehead Letters : Tasmanian society and politics, 1871-1882, as seen through the letterbooks of John Whitehead MHA of 'Winburn', Lymington [Nile].

By: WHITEHEAD, John. [Compiled by Francisca A. Vernon & edited by Michael N. Sprod.]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1991

Seller ID: 5186

The edition limited to 1000 copies. 270pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0909479054 ***The monthly letters of a northern Tasmanian farmer-politician to an English friend - Edwin Bowring, a former VDL resident and manager of 'Panshanger' - with an introduction concerning Whitehead and the politics of the period, and extensive notes on the people and events mentioned in the letters.
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Railways, Mines, Pubs and People : and other historical research.

By: WHITHAM, Lindsay.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 2002

Seller ID: 23194

264pp, 101 photographs, drawings and maps. Soft covers; reading creases to spine. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0909479216 ***Most of the essays were originally published in the Tasmanian Historical Research Association's Papers & Proceedings. Whitham's interest has been in Tasmania's near-forgotten industrial heritage.
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The Railways and Tramways of Zeehan.

By: Whitham, Lindsay.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers & Proceedings: 1971

Seller ID: 19753

Offprint from THRA P&P 18/2. Repaginated: 18pp, 1 plate, 5 full-page sketch maps. A good+ clean copy, signed by the author. ***Based on an illustrated lecture presented in June 1970 and 'in effect a progress report on the writer's studies of rail transport around Zeehan…a historical summary'.
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The Abels : a comprehensive guide to Tasmania's mountains over 1100m high. Volume 1. Sections 1-5.

By: WILKINSON, Bill (ed).

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Outdoors Collection: 2016

Seller ID: 35106

Second edition, substantially revised and expanded. Pictorial papered boards. 4to. 352pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w. Includes the 'Abel Tables'; the check-list previously issued as small booklet, now updated with GDA references. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0995367361 *** The hard-bound issue of this new edition was limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author; this one is out-of-series (unnumbered) but signed. This volume covers the north-east, north-west, south-east, eastern and wesatern plateaux, the Ossa and Du Cane groups, and the Cuvier Valley region. The second volume - ...
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Irish Convicts and Van Diemen's Land.

By: WILLIAMS, John.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1972

Seller ID: 23145

article in THRAPP, Vol 19/3, September 1972, pp100-20. Stapled in wrappers. Very good.
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Ordered to the Island : Irish convicts and Van Diemen's Land.

By: WILLIAMS, John.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Sydney, Crossing Press: 1994

Seller ID: 31209

226pp. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646160648 ***The only publication of a highly-regarded MA thesis.
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The Straitsmen : a romance.

By: WILLIAMS, Vernon.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1929

Seller ID: 15000

First edition. 308pp. Original brown cloth (no dustwrapper); head and tail of spine a trifle rubbed. Edges a little yellowed and with a few small spots, otherwise a very good clean copy. Owner's bookplate. ***A novel about 'the sealers of Bass Strait, buccaneers to a man'.
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The Luck of the Draw : a centenary of Tattersall's sweeps, 1881-1981.

By: WILSON, Trevor.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Author: 1980

Seller ID: 16536

#200 of the special issue of 600 numbered copies. Large 8vo. 212pp, illustrated in colour. Half-bound in faux leather and papered boards, gilt rules (slight fading to narrow strip at foot of the cloth-textured paper sides). Owner's name pencilled below the limitation statement on the half-title. A very good+ clean copy.
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Tasmanian Insights: essays in honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell.

By: WINTER, Gillian (ed).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, State Library of Tasmania: 1992

Seller ID: 5197

1000 copies only. 245pp, illus in colour and b&w. Red cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 072463892X ***Fifteen articles: on aspects of Tasmanian history, maritime exploration, connections with Antarctica, art, architecture, engineering, jewellery, publishing, interior design (of Government House) - with biographical sketches of Stilwell and Sir William Crowther, and an afterword by Christopher Koch.
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Tasmanian Insights : essays in honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell.

By: WINTER, Gillian (ed).

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Hobart, State Library of Tasmania: 1992

Seller ID: 36140

In the special binding of full maroon leather, gilt rules, raised bands; an out-of-series copy (25 numbered copies, signed by Stilwell and the editor were issued). 8vo. 246pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. A fine clean copy. ***The standard edition was limited to 1000 copies. There are fifteen articles: on aspects of Tasmanian history, maritime exploration, connections with Antarctica, art, architecture, engineering, jewellery, publishing, interior design (of Government House) - with biographical sketches of Stilwell and Sir William Crowther, and an afterword by Christopher Koch.
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Centenary History of St John's Lodge No. 2 Tasmanian Constitution (formerly No. 346 I.C.). 1843 - 1943.

By: WISEMAN, A.R.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Launceston, Foot & Playsted: 1943

Seller ID: 11271

Compiled from the minutes. Small 8vo. 64pp, frontis & 7 plates. Blue cloth, lettered in black on the upper board. A little foxing on the title-page, the lower fore-corners of the first 16pp with a bump (or crinkle), otherwise a good+ clean copy.
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Montgomery of Tasmania : Henry and Maud Montgomery in Australasia.

By: WITHYCOMBE, Robert.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Acorn Press: 2009

Seller ID: 36491

8vo. xii, 300pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0908284780 ***H.H. Montgomery was Anglican Bishop of Tasmania 1889-1901 and, ably supported by his wife ('the proactive wife of an equally proactive bishop'), brought to the role a missionary zeal. Their son Bernard later achieved some fame as a soldier.
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Andrew Bent and the Freedom of the Press in Van Diemen's Land.

By: WOODBERRY, Joan.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Fuller's Bookshop: 1972

Seller ID: 5200

750 numbered copies. 174pp. Brown synthetic cloth with clear acetate dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0858530058
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Floodtide for Rafferty.

By: WOODBERRY, Joan.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Max Parrish: 1960

Seller ID: 28952

Illustrated by the author. First edition. Small 8vo. 184pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with pictorial dustwrapper. Some light foxing on inside of the wrapper, endpapers, edges and first several leaves; otherwise in very good clean condition. ***Author's copy - with inscription on the front endpaper.
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A Survey of Woodcraft in Tasmania.

By: Woodcraft:

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forestry Commission Tasmania: 1988

Seller ID: 27757

4to. 22pp, illus. Stapled in the original wrappers, as issued. Very good. ISBN 0724635203
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Portrait of Jane: a life of Lady Franklin.

By: WOODWARD, Frances J.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1951

Seller ID: 35215

First edition. 382pp, frontis portrait, 6 plates, full-page map of Tasmania, rear endpaper map (illustrating the searches for Sir John Franklin). Green cloth with dustwrapper (spine somewhat soiled and rubbed, now in protective sleeve. From a church library - where, it seems, it was little if ever used - with a spine label on the wrapper, a stamp and a small card pocket on the front endpapers, but no other markings. A very good clean (ex-library) copy.
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Portrait of Jane : a life of Lady Franklin.

By: WOODWARD, Frances J.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1951

Seller ID: 36440

First edition. 382pp, frontis portrait, 6 plates, full-page relief map of Tasmania. Rebound in heavy boards, green half-leather and cloth sides, gilt rules and blind decorations, spine labels and raised bands, new marbled endpapers (and thus the rear endpaper map illustrating the searches for Sir John Franklin is not present). The binding is in fine condition, the first and last couple of leaves and the edges are a little yellowed and foxed, otherwise clean. A very good (rebound) copy.
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A Tour of Old Tasmania.

By: WOOLEY, Charles; Michael Tatlow & Peter Mercer.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Tasmania, Walk Guides Australia: 2008

Seller ID: 28449

232pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, map. Soft covers. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0980563739 *** 'Tours and maps for a week or a month. Presenting 200 towns and secret places.'
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Tasmania's Heroes : awards for valour.

By: World War One:

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Hobart, N.G. Davies at "The Mercury" Office: 1918

Seller ID: 33999

Sold for the benefit of the O.A.S. Fund. Authorised by the State Repatriation Board. Booklet (105x160mm). 32pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff wrappers, as issued, now with plastic covering. The booklet is crinkled throughout (by damp it seems) but with no adhesion of pages, pp25/6 has a small piece from its top corner torn away (clips the marginal border but well away from text). A just-about-good copy of a scarce booklet. ***Cover title adds: 'The Great War'. A list of all awards gained, and includes photos of eight VC winners.
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Launceston Regiment 1860-1960.

By: WYATT, D.M.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Taroona, Tas, Author: 2013

Seller ID: 32218

Published in an edition of 150 numbered copies signed by the author (the first 35 of which are case-bound). 4to. x, 206pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0977503399 ***The Launceston Volunteer Rifle Corps was founded in 1860, although it was disbanded due to insufficient government and public support in 1868. Ten years later, the Tasmanian Volunteer Rifle regiment was formed, with two companies in Launceston and four in Hobart, and the Launceston Regiment can boast an unbroken lineage from that time.
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Artillery in Tasmania 1901-2011.

By: WYATT, Douglas Morris & Keith Glyde.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Authors: 2012

Seller ID: 33384

4to. xii, 254pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0977503372 *** A chronological diary of the evolution of artillery in Tasmania.
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The story of the Deloraine schools 1847-1979.

By: YOUNG, Lexie.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Author?: 1979

Seller ID: 33501

48pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. ***Includes the schools at Red Hills, Moltemea, Quamby Brook, Golden Valley, Dunorlan.
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