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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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Memories of Ashley Boys' Home and other ramblings.

By: CANDEN, Chas J.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: [New Norfolk, Tasmania], Aus I Tech: 2004

Seller ID: 36604

Small 4to. 98pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646435094
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The Last Log of our old 'Captain' : 80 years, 1856-1936.

By: Captain, The [T.G. Ford].

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Hobart, Printed by N.H. Propsting: [1936].

Seller ID: 25553

74pp. Staple-bound with the pictorial soft covers drawn on, as issued. A very good clean copy.
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In Old Days and These, and other stories.

By: Captain, The [T.G. Ford].

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, Colin Dennison: 2011

Seller ID: 28942

1000 numbered copies. Reprint, with a new foreword and a comprehensive index added. 196pp, illustrated, advertisements, folding map. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 1877055026
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Martin Cash : the Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land in 1843-4. A personal narrative of his exploits in the bush and his experiences at Port Arthur and Norfolk Island.

By: CASH, Martin.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, J. Walch & Sons: 1981

Seller ID: 17488

53rd thousand, with illustrations. 12th impression (first published 1870). Small 8vo. 174pp. Soft covers. A very good clean copy.
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Martin Cash: the Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land in 1843-4 : a personal narrative of his exploits in the bush and his experiences at Port Arthur and Norfolk Island.

By: CASH, Martin.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, J. Walch & Sons: 1961

Seller ID: 17702

Seventh edition; 32nd thousand. 174pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A good to very good clean copy.
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Lawless Harvests, or God Save the Judges. Van Diemen's Land 1803-55 : a legal history.

By: CASTLES, Alex C.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing: 2006

Seller ID: 22555

240pp, b&w illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1740971426
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A Tasmanian Idyl: poems.

By: CHANCELLOR, A.Ernest.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Melbourne, W.A. Hamer: 1923

Seller ID: 27354

94pp (last 2 adverts). Cloth-backed decorated wrappers (spine sunned and slightly browned at head and foot margins. Very clean inside, and inscribed by the author. Very good.
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The Lighthouse Keeper's Son.

By: CHAUNCY, Nan.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 6007

Illustrated by Victor G. Ambrus. First edition. 154pp, text illustrations. Red cloth with dustwrapper. The front endpaper has a 35x100mm piece of plain tape (no inscription, does not appear to be obscuring one either) in the centre of the page. Otherwise a very good clean copy.
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Image for Christ's College : Tasmania. An exhibition of books from Christ's College Library 1846-1856, arranged by the Friends of the University Library.

Christ's College : Tasmania. An exhibition of books from Christ's College Library 1846-1856, arranged by the Friends of the University Library.

By: Christ's College:

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, The College: 1971

Seller ID: 36409

8vo. 24pp, b&w illustrations. Stapled in wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy.
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The Parliament of Tasmania : an historical sketch.

By: CLARK, Carrel Inglis.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Government Printer: 1947

Seller ID: 4506

Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. A very good clean copy. ***Part I (88pp) is the 'historical sketch', Part II (30pp) is 'A Record of the Services of Members and Officers of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly…'. The author, the son of Andrew Inglis Clark, was the Clerk of the Legislative Council.
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Maconochie's Experiment.

By: CLAY, John.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, John Murray: 2001

Seller ID: 20233

276pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0719560454 *** 'How one man's extraordinary vision saved transported convicts from degradation and despair' (from cover).
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kunyani / The Mountain.

By: CLEMENS, Mark.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Peregrine Press: 2014

Seller ID: 33203

Square small 4to. 110pp, lavishly illustrated in colour. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646917412 *** A 'visual evocation and intimate photographic study' of Hobart's Mount Wellington.
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A Vision For Design : thirty years of transforming perceptions and practice in Tasmania.

By: CLEVELAND, Gary.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Canberra, Karuda Press: 2006

Seller ID: 22252

Historical Survey of Northern Tasmania 9. 150pp, black & white photographs and illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine [new]. ISBN 0977598306
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The Viking of Van Diemen's Land : the stormy life of Jorgen Jorgensen.

By: CLUNE, Frank & P.R. Stephensen.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1954

Seller ID: 9617

With Illustrations by Albert Zimmerman. 482pp, coloured frontis portrait, text illustrations. Blue cloth, extremities a trifle rubbed, no dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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The Heart of James McAuley : life and work of the Australian poet.

By: COLEMAN, Peter.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Syd., Wildcat Press: 1980

Seller ID: 4844

132pp, illustrated, index. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (part faded). Very good.
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PROCEEDINGS... at the Meetings of the General Council held in Launceston, March, 1879, [with] Constitution of the Union, and Rules of Allied Societies.

By: CONGREGATIONAL UNION and Mission of Tasmania.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Launceston, Printed at the "Launceston Examiner" Office: 1879

Seller ID: 4517

36pp., blue wrappers. Very good.
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Further Correspondence on the subject of Convict Discipline and Transportation, February & August 1855 and March & August 1857 [four parts in three].

By: Convict Discipline and Transportation: GREAT BRITAIN - Parliament - New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

Price: $650.00

Publisher: London, Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, for Her Majesty's Stationery Office: 1855& 1857

Seller ID: 34435

Four papers in three volumes, foolscap folio, uniformly bound in half brown calf and cloth sides, spine title labels; ink stamp of the Law Society of the United Kingdom on the title page and final blank page of the second volume. The PAPERS are thus: [1] In continuation of Papers presented May 1854. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty February 1855 (xii, 222pp). [2] In continuation of Papers presented February 1855. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty August 1855 (viii, 164pp). [3] In continuation of Papers presented 2 June 1856. Presen...
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Railroading in Tasmania 1868-1961.

By: COOLEY, Thomas C.T.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Hobart, Government Printer: 1961

Seller ID: 6894

First edition. 158pp, full-page map, 202 plates at rear. Red cloth with dustwrapper (chipped around the edges with small pieces lacking from head of spine and lower rear panel, some closed tears, now in protective sleeve). The book is in very good clean condition, the wrapper good only. ***The dustwrapper has the dates in title as 1830-1962. There is an early reference to the Port Arthur convict-powered railway, and the first railway proper (Launceston & Western) was initially proposed in 1855, so...
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A History of Trains and Trams in Tasmania.

By: COOLEY, Thomas C.T.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Government Printer: 1987

Seller ID: 9565

184pp, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ***By the author of Railroading in Tasmania (1961).
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Railroading in Tasmania 1868-1961.

By: COOLEY, Thomas C.T.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Government Printer: 1961

Seller ID: 15511

First edition. xvi, 158pp, full-page map, 202 black & white plates at rear. Red cloth, title lettered on upper board (no dustwrapper). A very good clean copy. ***The dustwrapper (not here present) has the dates in title as 1830-1962. There is an early reference to the Port Arthur convict-powered railway, and the first railway proper (Launceston & Western) was proposed in 1855 and opened in 1871, so...
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Tasmanian Marsupials and Monotremes.

By: COOMBE, Elizabeth.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hobart, Port Press: 1986

Seller ID: 21081

Inscribed by the author and illustrator on the verso of the first leaf. Illustrations by Anthony Burrows. 54pp, black & white illustrations, location maps. Soft covers (spine and adjoining narrow strip on back discoloured). Very good. ISBN 0958898405
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The Art of Apple Branding : Australian apple case labels and the industry since 1788.

By: COWLES, Christopher & David Walker.

Price: $88.00

Publisher: Hobart, Apples from Oz: 2005

Seller ID: 20438

Square 4to. 218pp, 64 colour plates on art paper, numerous other colour and b&w illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646434209 ***Describes the growth of the industry and its way of life, with the focus being on the marketing of the product and in particular the use of case labels and other printed marketing material. Includes a 48-page illustrated 'Complete guide to Australian apple case labels' (in effect, a catalogue raisonné), biographies of label designers, and a list of the printers who produced the labels. A comprehensive coverage ...
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Patchwork Prisoners : the Rajah Quilt and the women who made it.

By: COWLEY, Trudy & Dianne Snowden.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Research Tasmania: 2013

Seller ID: 31696

Small 4to. xxiv, 326pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0975678469 ***A study of the 180 female convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land on the 'Rajah' in 1841, and of the quilt made by some of them - the only surviving such artefact (now in the National Gallery of Australia).
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Ships in Tasmanian Waters : riverboats, ferries and the floating bridge.

By: COX, George W.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Fuller's Bookshop: 1971

Seller ID: 33787

Large 8vo. 224pp, b&w photographs. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (small piece missing near head of spine). A very good clean copy.
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Ships in Tasmanian Waters : riverboats, ferries and the floating bridge.

By: COX, George W.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Fuller's Bookshop: 1971

Seller ID: 17787

224pp, b&w photographs. Blue cloth with dustwrapper (extremities rubbed and a little discoloured, now in protective sleeve). The cloth is slightly flecked. Owner's name. A good clean copy.
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Lefroy : Tasmania's forgotten gold town.

By: COX, Peter.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: George Town, Tasmania, George Town and District Historical Society: 2016

Seller ID: 36438

Oblong 4to. 156pp, 1 colour plate and numerous b&w illustrations. Soft covers. A fine clean copy.
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Ships of Hobart Harbour.

By: COX, Rex & G.W. Cox.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Wentworth Falls (NSW), Ron Withington: 2014

Seller ID: 32881

Small 4to. xii, 612pp, well illustrated in b&w. Pictorial papered boards. Fine (new). ISBN 0646913638
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A Miscellany of Tasmania: selected vice-regal speeches.

By: COX, William

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2008

Seller ID: 25478

199pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ISBN 064650603X ***The author was Governor of Tasmania 2004-08.
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Image for Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania. The Dr Clifford Craig Collection : the important collection of books, manuscripts, prints, drawings and paintings relating to the discovery and history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania. The Dr Clifford Craig Collection : the important collection of books, manuscripts, prints, drawings and paintings relating to the discovery and history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

By: Craig Sale:

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Launceston, Christie, Manson & Woods: 1975

Seller ID: 28395

Offered for auction at the Masonic Hall, Brisbane Street, Launceston. On Monday October 13, 1975 and the two days following. The first issue in dusky pink soft covers, with the illustrations bound in. Two parts. 90pp, coloured frontis, 5 other colour and 16 b&w plates, 4 full-page illustrations (title pages) & 130pp, frontis & 4 other b&w plates, 1 full-page illustration. Price realisation sheets, and the notice of altered auction times due to the illegality of holding auctions in Tasmania in the evening, loosely inserted.. A very good clean set.
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The Van Diemen's Land Edition of The Pickwick Papers : a general and bibliographic study with some notes on Henry Dowling.

By: CRAIG, Clifford (ed).

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press: 1973

Seller ID: 4532

#96 of 150 numbered copies. Small 4to. xiv, 66, frontis portrait, pictorial endpapers, 10 full-page illustrations. Decorated cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***Includes a list of 'Other books and pamphlets bearing Henry Dowling's imprint'.
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Mr Punch in Tasmania : colonial politics in cartoons, 1866-1879.

By: CRAIG, Clifford.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Hobart,, Blubber Head Press: 1980

Seller ID: 5951

375 numbered copies, signed by the author. Demy 4to. 312pp, full-page illustrations (the cartoons). Maroon buckram, gilt Mr Punch device on the upper board, with the dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528051 ***From the six distinct Punch magazines published in Tasmania.
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Mr Punch in Tasmania : colonial politics in cartoons, 1866-1879.

By: CRAIG, Clifford.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart,, Blubber Head Press: 1980

Seller ID: 10843

#128 of 375 numbered & signed copies. 4to. 312pp, full-page illustrations (the cartoons). Maroon buckram, gilt Punch device on the upper board, with dustwrapper (some slight fading to spine and head of rear panel). A little pale spotting on the top edges, otherwise clean and in very good condition. ISBN 0908528051 ***From the six distinct Punch magazines published in Tasmania.
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More Old Tasmanian Prints: a companion volume to The Engravers of Van Diemen's Land and Old Tasmanian Prints.

By: CRAIG, Clifford.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Launceston, Foot & Playsted: 1984

Seller ID: 19497

1000 numbered copies. Small 4to. 389pp, coloured frontis, 62 plates. Pictorial cloth, with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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More Old Tasmanian Prints : a companion volume to The Engravers of Van Diemen's Land and Old Tasmanian Prints.

By: CRAIG, Clifford.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Launceston, Foot & Playsted: 1984

Seller ID: 4528

1000 numbered copies. 389pp, coloured frontis, 62 plates. Pictorial cloth, with dustwrapper and title banner. A very good clean copy - with a typed slip tipped to the front endpaper, reading 'to G.T. Stilwell, with kind regards and many thanks from C. Craig'.
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Old Tasmanian Prints: prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the mainland of Australia.

By: CRAIG, Clifford.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Launceston, Foot & Playsted: 1964

Seller ID: 15477

#542 of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author. 349pp, coloured frontis, 80 plates. Pictorial cloth (as issued, without dustwrapper); with the publisher's wrap-around title-band (closed tear). Two marks left by tape from a previous covering on both free endpapers, a few small brown stains near lower corner of rear cover. Otherwise a very good clean copy.
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The Engravers of Van Diemen's Land.

By: CRAIG, Clifford.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1961

Seller ID: 17102

#648 of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author. Small 4to. 172pp, frontis, 43 plates. Pictorial cloth (as issued, without dustwrapper). Owner's name, twice, otherwise a very good clean copy.
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The Printed Maps of Tasmania.

By: CRAIG, Clifford.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers & Proceedings: July,1968

Seller ID: 4529

in Vol 16/1, pp 18-25. Stapled in wrappers, as issued . Very good. ***Lists 49 pre-1856 maps not in Tooley's 'The Printed Maps of Tasmania... 1777-1900', Map Collectors' Circle, No.5, 1963.
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Old Tasmanian Prints : prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the mainland of Australia.

By: CRAIG, Clifford.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Launceston, Foot & Playsted: 1964

Seller ID: 21990

#500 of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author. 349pp, coloured frontis, 80 plates. Pictorial cloth, wrap-around paper title band (as issued, without dustwrapper). A very good clean copy. Owner's small name stamp at foot of front endpaper.
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Notes on Tasmaniana : a companion volume to The Engravers of Van Diemen's Land, Old Tasmanian Prints and More Old Tasmanian Prints.

By: CRAIG, Clifford.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Launceston, Foot & Playsted: 1986

Seller ID: 36442

#764 of 1000 numbered copies. 4to. 324pp, coloured frontis, 44 b&w and colour plates. Pictorial cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. Owner's name. ISBN 0959987363
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Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

By: CRAIG, Clifford; Kevin Fahey & E. Graeme Robertson.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Georgian House: 1972

Seller ID: 35664

First edition. 4to. 220pp, frontis, well illustrated. Black cloth (lacking the dustwrapper). Spine sunned; otherwise a very good clean copy. ***The first major study of early colonial furniture, and a standard reference.
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Landscape : photographs by Cam Crawford, Tim Faircloth, Alan Moyle and Ivan Stringer.

By: Crawford et al.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Landscapetas: 2002

Seller ID: 15593

Square 8vo. 46pp, with 56 images in colour. Soft covers. Fine. ISBN 0975002805 ***Tasmanian images, by the first four recipients of the Dombrovskis Award for nature photography.
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The History of the Early Water Supply of Hobart Town: the first 100 years, 1804-1904.

By: CRAWFORD, P.G. & K.A. Ryan.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Institution of Engineers, Australia (Tasmania): [1988]

Seller ID: 9217

Large 8vo. 66pp, illustrations, maps, plans. Soft covers. A very good clean copy.
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The Launceston Artillery.

By: CRAWFORD, Sir George.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Launceston, Royal Society of Tasmania, Northern Branch.: August,1973

Seller ID: 17841

A paper read... on 5th June, 1970. (Royal Society of Tasmania, Northern Branch, Bulletin 3.) 4to. 43pp roneoed typescript (printed rectos only), stapled in wrappers (yellowed towards the spine). A very good clean copy. ***Formed in 1860 as the Launceston Citizens Voluntary Rifle Corps, this unit became known as the Launceston Artillery. It was absorbed into the Commonwealth Military Forces after Federation and went through many permutations - some volunteer, some not - and eventually became the 6th Field Regiment.
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Tasmania Visited.

By: CROFT, Christopher et al.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: [1981]

Seller ID: 23257

Small square 4to. 55pp, colour and black & white illustrations. Soft covers. Very good+. ISBN 0724610286 ***Catalogue of an exhibition in Hobart 3 November - 6 December 1981 and Launceston 19 December 1981 - 17 January 1982.
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A Survey of the MSS, logs and ships journals and maritime material in the State Library of Tasmania [3 parts].

By: CROWTHER, Dr W.E.L.H.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 1971-1974

Seller ID: 15250

In three complete issues of RSTP&P, vols 105-107. Part I: Those in the Archives Department of the Library with emphasis on the logs concerning the Whaling industry (Vol 105, pp41-8). Part II: The material in the Crowther Collection, State Library of Tasmania, grouped in 3 sections of particular interest (Vol 106, pp59-68). Part III: The material in the Crowther Collection, State Library of Tasmania. Miscellaneous Voyages: intercolonial and on the high seas, especially for whales (Vol 107, pp33-45). Each part in the original wrappers and in very good clean condition. ***Vol 105 also contains 'A...
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Mountain Stories : echoes from the Tasmanian high country. Volume One.

By: CUBIT, Simon

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2016

Seller ID: 36261

Large 8vo. 276pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0995367396
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Tasmanian High Country Huts : from the Central Plateau to Cradle Mountain.

By: CUBIT, Simon & Des Murray.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2013

Seller ID: 31666

Oblong 4to. xxi, map frontispiece, 122pp, profusely illustrated in colour and black & white (pencil drawings). Pictorial papered boards. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0987589717
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Historic Tasmanian Mountain Huts through the photographer's lens.

By: CUBIT, Simon & Nic Haygarth.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2014

Seller ID: 33451

Oblong 4to. 115pp, well illustrated in b&w, place ribbon. Pictorial papered boards. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0992551331 *** 'The introduction of portable dry plate cameras in the late 1870s marked the beginning of a golden age of Tasmanian landscape photography. With cameras on their backs, adventurers explored the wilds of Tasmania, recording not just the dramatic physical features they found but also the typically rough shelters of the miners, hunters, stockmen and piners who lived or worked in the bush. In this beautiful book Simon Cubit and Nic Haygarth use this rich photographic heritage a...
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