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A Mortal Flame : Marie Bjelke Petersen, Australian Romance Writer, 1874-1969.

By: Bjelke Petersen, Marie: ALEXANDER, Alison.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1994

Seller ID: 4381

xii, 276pp, 55 illustrations, bibliography, index. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0 908528 25 6
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Tasmania and beyond.

By: BLIGH, Marjorie Alfreda Willis.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Author: 1988

Seller ID: 35307

Foreword by Bob Hawke. First edition. viii, 464pp, b&w photographs. Soft covers. A very good to fine clean copy. Signed by the author (at the end of her Introduction). ISBN 0959431527 *** A wide-ranging - and rather impressionistic - historical account of Tasmania, and Australia.
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A Soldier's View of Empire : the reminiscences of James Bodell, 1831-92.

By: BODELL, James : edited by Keith Sinclair.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Bodley Head: 1982

Seller ID: 25365

216pp, illustrated in black and white. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine sunned). A few light spots on top edges, otherwise very good. ***Chapter IV (45pp.) concerns Tasmania and Victoria, 1855-63. Also material on England & Ireland, China, and NZ.
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Hobart Town.

By: BOLGER, Peter.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Canberra, ANU Press: 1973

Seller ID: 30424

First (and only) edition. 238pp, black & white illustrations, map. Brown cloth with dustwrapper (spine and adjacent areas faded, as often if not usual, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0708100724 ***A social history of 19th century Hobart, and still the only general history of the colonial city (or the post-colonial city for that matter).
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Port Arthur: a photographic essay.

By: BOLT, Frank.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Action Agencies: 1980

Seller ID: 17186

3rd imp. Oblong 8vo. 64pp. Stapled in stiff wrappers. Very good. ***black &white photography (here printed sepia-toned).
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The Founding of Hobart 1803-1804.

By: BOLT, Frank.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Kettering (Tas), Peregrine Press: 2005

Seller ID: 19078

318pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, folding coloured map. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy, ISBN 0975716603
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The Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth, Commandant of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement.

By: BOOTH, Captain Charles O'Hara.

Price: $285.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1981

Seller ID: 36099

First edition, special binding. 298pp, frontis & 2 colour & 11 b&w illustrations, map. This copy has been bound in full red leather, with spine labels and raised bands, gilt decorations, and housed in a cloth-covered slipcase. All in fine condition. ***Not a publisher's binding - executed by the Dove Bindery of Melbourne, possibly for the Tasmanian bibliophile Peter Benson Walker. The edition was 1000 copies: the number bound thus is not known, possibly ten or so. A matching binding was made for a similar number of copies of the same publisher's Diary of the Reverend Robert Knopwood (1977).
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The Journal of Charles O'Hara Booth, Commandant of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement.

By: BOOTH, Captain Charles O'Hara. (edited by Dora Heard).

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1981

Seller ID: 22793

1000 copies. 298pp, frontis & 2 illus in colour, 11 b&w illus, map. Brown cloth with dustwrapper. A little light spotting on the edges, otherwise a very good clean copy.
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The Roy Bridges Collection in the University of Tasmania : a catalogue. (Studies in Australian Bibliography, Number 4.)

By: BORCHARDT, D.H. and Mrs Bonnie Tilley (compiled and introduced by).

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cremorne, NSW, Stone Copying Co.: 1956

Seller ID: 22247

Edition limited to 95 copies. viii, 24pp. Side stapled with blue cloth backing strip and thick paper covers (small area of fading on back). Flyer loosely inserted. A very good clean copy. ***The Tasmanian novelist and journalist.
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Van Diemen's Land.

By: BOYCE, James

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Black Inc.: 2014

Seller ID: 34807

Reprint. 388pp, 3 maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 1863954910 ***Boyce seeks to describe how the convicts sent to VDL were changed by the natural world they encountered: 'behind the official attempt to create a Little England was another story of adaption, in which the poor, the exiled and the criminal made a new home in a strange land'. Also with an Appendix 'Towards Genocide: government policy on the Aborigines 1827-38' in which Boyce expands on the arguments presented in his essay "Fantasy Island", published in 'Whitewash: on Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Abori...
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God and the City : a history of St David's Cathedral, Hobart.

By: BOYCE, Peter.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, St David's Cathedral Foundation: 2012

Seller ID: 36589

Small 4to. 254pp, coloured frontis, b&w illustrations, pictorial endpapers; errata slip loosely inserted. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646581945
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The Diaries and Letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes : Volume I, 1820-1832.

By: BOYES, G.T.W.B. : edited by Peter Chapman.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Melbourne, OUP: 1985

Seller ID: 16682

692pp, 24 colour illustrations, other black & white illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine sunned). A very good clean copy. ***All published to date.
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A Home in the Colonies : Edward Braddon's letters to India from North-West Tasmania, 1878.

By: BRADDON, Edward.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1980

Seller ID: 4442

Reprinted from THRA Papers & Proceedings 27/4, December 1980. 98pp, illustration. Stapled in stiff wrappers, as issued. A fine clean copy. ***Braddon wrote these, soon after his arrival in Tasmania from India, as a series of articles for the Calcutta Statesman and Friend of India.
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Penal Peninsula : Port Arthur and its outstations 1827-1898.

By: BRAND, Ian

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hobart, Jason Publications: 1978

Seller ID: 4447

First edition. 226pp, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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Sarah Island. An account of the penal settlements of Sarah Island, Tasmania, from 1822 to 1833, and 1846 to 1847.

By: BRAND, Ian.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Launceston, Regal Publications: 1990

Seller ID: 19270

Reprint. 78pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Very good. ISBN 0949457310
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Contested Places : Tasmania's northern districts from ancient times to 1900.

By: BREEN, Shayne.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies: 2001

Seller ID: 12859

226pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***A regional history of the Deloraine, Westbury, Evandale and Longford districts - from the author's PhD thesis. 'A significant and original contribution to understanding the nature of agricultural society in the Northern Districts', combining 'an intensive study of a cultural landscape' and 'the integration of social and environmental history'.
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The Tasmanian Coast : a photographic circumnavigation.

By: BRETTINGHAM-MOORE, J.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Cambridge (Tas.), Shadrach P/L: 1997

Seller ID: 17983

Oblong 4to. 128pp, 61 colour photographs, map. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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Maritime Tasmania : a cruising guide with historical notes and coastal photography.

By: BRETTINGHAM-MOORE, J.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cambridge (Tas.), Shadrach P/L: 1988

Seller ID: 8378

Large 4to. 186pp, well illustrated & over 90 charts. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0731633318
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Never Say Die : the North Hobart Football Club, a history.

By: BREWER, Warren

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, North Hobart Football Club: 1995

Seller ID: 36210

4to. 120pp, illustrated. Soft covers; extremities a little rubbed, with slight crease to lower corner of the front cover. A good to very good clean copy. ISBN 0646235834
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Chinese Lacquer : an Australian story.

By: BRIDGES, Hilda.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: [1926].

Seller ID: 32183

319pp. Original blue cloth, lightly soiled, extremities rubbed. Some light spotting early and late, and on the endpapers and edges; pp17/18 with long clean tear closed with clear archival tape, pp97/98 & 111/112 with ragged edges (probably tipped back in), 7cm tear at the lower gutter of the final leaf. A somewhat tired copy but scarce.
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The League of the Lord.

By: BRIDGES, Roy.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Australasian Publishing Co.: 1950

Seller ID: 33241

First edition. 358pp. Original blue cloth, no dustwrapper but its front pictorial panel is laid down over the front paste-down endpaper. Extremities a trifle rubbed, the edges yellowed but clean inside. Owner's inscription: 'Koch' (the novelist Christopher Koch). A good to very good clean copy. ***The Tasmanian journalist and prolific novelist (1885-1952). This is one of his Van Diemen's Land convict series.
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The League of the Lord.

By: BRIDGES, Roy.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Australasian Publishing Co.: 1950

Seller ID: 21095

First edition. 358pp. Original blue cloth. Slightly canted, edges yellowed. Formerly in the collection of the Glamorgan Public Library (east coast of Tasmania), the small stamp of which appears on the title-page and at the end of the text. There is a strip of brown paper pasted across the endpaper gutters front and rear (prophylactic rather than repair) and the front panel of the dustwrapper has been laid onto the front free endpaper; two catalogue numbers are written above the d/w panel (one crossed out), and the names of borrowers on the rear endpaper. A good reading copy. ***The Tasmanian j...
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The League of the Lord.

By: BRIDGES, Roy.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Australasian Publishing Co.: 1950

Seller ID: 21097

First edition. 358pp. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (a little chiped along the edges and lacking small pieces at head and tail of spine, now in protective sleeve). The volume is slightly canted, otherwise a good clean copy. Owner's name. ***Convicts and colonists in Van Diemen's Land.
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Time Given : poems 1970-1976.

By: Brindabella Press: McAULEY, James.

Price: $475.00

Publisher: Canberra, Brindabella Press [Officina Brindabella]: 1976

Seller ID: 35846

#131 of 230 copies (but see below), signed by the printer/publisher Alec Bolton. Tall 8vo. 44pp. Black cloth with mylar dustwrapper. A nice clean copy in fine condition. *** The seventh publication of Alec Bolton's Brindabella Press / Officina Brindabella (the latter title used between 1985 and 1992). 'Published after our old friend's death... Many copies were bought by his friends, and few have come onto the market - this is one of the hardest Brindabella books for collectors to find' (Alec Bolton, in Michael Richards: A Licence to Print, p23). Apparently 40 of the 230 were destroyed while pr...
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TASMANIAN JOURNEY.

By: BROGDEN, Stanley.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Pioneer Tours: 1949

Seller ID: 6476

Illus. by R. Clayton Skate. 2nd imp. 4to. 96pp, illus. Orig. cloth. Bookplate on ffep. Very good.
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30 YEARS OF ROTARY IN HOBART.

By: BROOKS, G.V.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, J. Walch & Sons: 1955

Seller ID: 15045

96pp, b&w photographs. Original papered boards (short split at rear joint). Occasional marks in margins. Annotation on front paste-down. Good.
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An Affirming Flame : adventures in continuing education.

By: BROOKS, Kenneth .

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, William Legrand Publishing: 1987

Seller ID: 20856

Large 8vo. 208pp, illus. Soft covers. Very good. Signed by the author. ISBN 0731611063
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Lake Pedder.

By: BROWN, Bob.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, The Wilderness Society: 1986

Seller ID: 4791

Square small 4to. 24pp (including 2 plates and a map), plus 42 coloured photographic plates (one a folding panorama). The soft cover issue, with dustwrapper (spine sunned). A very good clean copy.
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I Excel! : the life and times of Sir Henry Jones.

By: BROWN, Bruce.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hobart, Libra Books: 1991

Seller ID: 36430

208pp. Soft covers. Owner's name inside front cover. A very good clean copy. ISBN 090961914X ***Biography of Hobart's "Knight of the Jam Tin".
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Haughton Forrest 1826-1925.

By: BROWN, George Deas.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Malakoff: 1982

Seller ID: 7398

#234 of 1500 numbered copies (of which the first 150 were leather-bound and boxed). Large 4to. 184pp, 36 colour plates & other illustrations, lists of exhibitions and collections. Maroon leather-grained cloth with dustwrapper (a little slight surface rubbing). Light spotting on the top edges, otherwise clean and in very good condition. ISBN 0959274308 ***Signed by the author.
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Poverty is Not a Crime : the development of social services in Tasmania, 1803-1900.

By: BROWN, Joan C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1972

Seller ID: 20702

192pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (slight silverfishing, now in protective sleeve). Both boards have an indentation in the foot edge; otherwise a good clean copy. ISBN 090947902X
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Poverty is Not a Crime : the development of social services in Tasmania, 1803-1900.

By: BROWN, Joan C.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1972

Seller ID: 23313

192pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 090947902X
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The Pheasant on King Island: hunting and management. A consultant's report for the Department of Lands, Parks & Wildlife.

By: BROWN, P.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: n.p., Author?: nd

Seller ID: 19709

4to. 47pp, maps, figures, line illus. Side stapled in soft covers with cloth spine strip (back lower corner creased). Owner's name on t.p. Very good.
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Voyages in a Caravan : the illustrated logs of Frank Styant Browne.

By: Browne, Frank Styant.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Launceston Library / Brobok: 2002

Seller ID: 20987

Published with the support of the Friends of the Launceston Library. Oblong 4to. 128pp, 88 illustrations, 2 maps. Soft covers; slight rubbing to front cover midway down the spine, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0957937911 ***The 'logs' of two journeys made by Browne and Joshua Higgs Jr, in a caravan, around northern Tasmania in 1896 & 1899, along with the photographs taken along the way (presumably these are the 41 photographs numbered). Browne was a pharmacist and pioneer in the field of X-rays in Tasmania, and a keen amateur photographer. Higgs was an architect, surveyor and artist.
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A Steamship for Hobart: S.S. Reemere 1909.

By: BROXAM, Graeme

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Canberra, Navarine Publ.: 1992

Seller ID: 17959

#888 of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author - and with his additional inscription. 62pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff pictorial wrappers, as issued. Very good. ISBN 0646113291
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A Steamship for Hobart: S.S. Reemere 1909.

By: BROXAM, Graeme

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Canberra, Navarine Publ.: 1992

Seller ID: 4469

1000 numbered copies, signed by the author. 62pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff illustrated wrappers, as issued. Very good. ISBN 0646113291
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Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Tasmania. Volume 3 : 1843-1850.

By: BROXAM, Graeme.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Canberra, Navarine Publishing: 1998

Seller ID: 5708

(Roebuck Series, no 45.) 4to. 603pp, 65 illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine. ISBN 0958656134
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Pride of the Port : the watermen of Hobart Town.

By: BROXAM, Graeme.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Navarine Publishing: 2012

Seller ID: 25694

Revised edition. 4to. 108pp, illustrated. Stapled in coloured wrappers. Fine (new). ***Signed by the author. ISBN 0975133144
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Shipwrecks of Tasmania's Wild West Coast.

By: BROXAM, Graeme.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Canberra, Navarine Publishing: 1993

Seller ID: 11396

(Roebuck Series, no 44.) Small 4to. 472pp, illustrated. Blue morocco-grained cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. WITH: Shipwrecks of Tasmania's Wild West Coast: addenda & errata (first edition), corrected to 30 January 1996 (28pp, stapled in wrappers; covered in contact plastic by a previous owner, otherwise a very good clean copy). Owner's name in both items.
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The Life of John Broxup : late convict of Van Diemen’s Land.

By: BROXUP, John:

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Sullivan's Cove: 1973

Seller ID: 28684

#28 of 125 numbered copies. Small 8vo. 24pp. Sewn in stiff wrappers. Hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch NZ. The fore-corners of the lower wrapper a trifle curled, otherwise a very good+ clean copy. ***First published by the author: Leeds, 1850 (Ferguson 5303). A former soldier, Broxup was convicted of receiving stolen goods in 1829 and sentenced to seven years transportation in Van Diemen's Land. This is a brief account of his time in servitude, including several punishments of flogging and time on the chain gang. After his sentence expired, he worked as a labourer in H...
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WWI : the stories behind the names on the Oatlands War Memorial.

By: BURBURY, Stephanie.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: Jericho, Tasmania, Author?: 2019

Seller ID: 36103

Second impression. 4to. 464pp, well illustrated in b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646800507
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An Iron Will : mining in Beaconsfield 1804 to 1877.

By: BURCH, Nigel.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Author?: 2012

Seller ID: 36259

4to. 250pp, illutstrated in colour and b&w, maps, bibliography, index. Soft covers. ISBN 0987371304 *** 'Before the gold rush of 1877, the Beaconsfield district was the centre of Australia's iron industry. It was here that the largest iron smelter in the southern hemisphere was built on the west bank of the Tamar River - forty years before BHP Newcastle. This book documents the events and introduces the people who explored the region from the first settlement in 1804' (rear cover). Contains information on the Tasmanian Charcoal Iron Company, 1872-73, British and Tasmanian Charcoal Iron Company...
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Duck Reach and Launceston's electric light : the story of Australia's first publicly owned hydro-electric power scheme.

By: BURGESS, Julian.

Price: $38.00

Publisher: Launceston, Christopher (Gus) Green: 2016

Seller ID: 34602

4to. 184pp, well illustrated in b&w. Soft covers. Fine (new).
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Narrative of the Overland Journey of Sir John and Lady Franklin and party from Hobart Town to Macquarie Harbour 1842.

By: BURN, David.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Dubbo, Review Publications: 1977

Seller ID: 5831

Edited with an Introduction, notes and commentary by George Mackaness. (Australian Historical Monographs, reprint series.) 70pp, 5 b&w illustrations. Stapled in stiff green wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. ***First published in six monthly parts in the United Services Journal, June--December 1843 (and some brief extracts also appeared in the Launceston Examiner of 23 June 1928). Burn's original manuscript is in the Mitchell Library. This is a reprint of Vol XXXII (1955) of Mackaness's Historical Monographs series, which was the first publication of the text as a complete work. It h...
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Narrative of the Overland Journey of Sir John and Lady Franklin and party from Hobart Town to Macquarie Harbour 1842.

By: BURN, David.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Sydney, D.S. Ford, Printers [for the editor]: 1955

Seller ID: 5256

Edited with an Introduction, notes and commentary by George Mackaness. (Australian Historical Monographs, no XXXII.) #81 of 135 numbered copies (for sale, another 15 were printed for presentation), signed by Mackaness. 72pp, 5 illustrations. Original green stiff yapp-edged wrappers. A very good to fine clean copy. ***First published in six monthly parts in the United Services Journal, June-December 1843 (some brief extracts also appeared in the Launceston Examiner 23 June 1928). This is the first publication in one volume. The original manuscript is in the Mitchell Library.
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The Darwinian. Volume XXXVI, December 1957.

By: Burnie State High School:

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Tasmania, Burnie State High School: 1957

Seller ID: 24943

32pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff wrappers. A couple of slight marks on the covers: a very good copy. ***The annual school magazine for 1957.
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Levee, Line and Martial Law : a history of the dispossession of the Mairremmener people of Van Diemen's Land 1803-1832.

By: CALDER, Graeme.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Launceston, Fullers Bookshop: 2009

Seller ID: 27817

(Studies in the History of Aboriginal Tasmania, 2.) Large 8vo. 321pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0646530852 ***The story of the 'fast-moving and terrible fate' that befell the people better known as the Oyster Bay and Big River tribes.
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Rambles on Betsey's Island, Tasman's Peninsula, and Forestier's Peninsula in February 1848.

By: CALDER, James.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1985

Seller ID: 8027

175 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. Small 8vo. 52pp. Hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press. Brown cloth, title label on the upper board, with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ***From Calder’s surveying days, first published in the Tasmanian Tribune in 1876 (and not since).
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