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Price: $300.00
Publisher: Hobart, J. Walch and Sons for the Government of Tasmania: 1921
Seller ID: 15875
First edition. 370pp, illustrations. Original red cloth, gilt titles and decoration, head and tail of spine a trifle rubbed. Offsetting on endpapers and edges a little yellowed, as usual, very clean inside. A very good clean copy. ***Includes a complete Muster Roll of all Tasmanians who served. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
By: BROWN, Bob.
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Hobart, The Wilderness Society: 1985
Seller ID: 4790
Square 4to. 24pp (including 2 plates and a map), plus 42 coloured photographic plates (one a folding panorama). Blue cloth with small inset colour photograph on the upper board, in matching slipcase (also with the inset). Profusely and beautifully illustrated in colour and b&w. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0908412169 ***A striking record of the now drowned lake by leading Tasmanian photographers. View more info
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. A fine clean copy. View more info
By: BROWN, Bob.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Green Institute: 2005
Seller ID: 20028
Small oblong 8vo. 56pp, colour photographs, maps. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646448994 View more info
By: BROWN, Bruce.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hobart, Libra Books: 1991
Seller ID: 24669
208pp. Soft covers, slight creasing to top front corner, spine and adjacent areas a little sunned, otherwise a good clean copy. ISBN 090961914X ***Biography of Hobart's "Knight of the Jam Tin". View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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 View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Canberra, Navarine Publishing: 2002
Seller ID: 15467
500 copies. Small 4to. 64pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ***Captain Joseph James operated out of Sydney from 1811 until 1820 when he became the first merchant at George Town, Van Diemen's Land. He died penniless in 1844, leaving his son Captain William Henry James to rebuild the family's fortunes. His story (and theirs) is told here through Broxam's introduction and the 72 family letters. View more info
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 View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
By: BROXUP, John:
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Hobart, Sullivan's Cove: 1973
Seller ID: 36215
#12 of 125 numbered copies. Small 8vo. 24pp. Sewn in stiff wrappers. Hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch NZ. The spine is a little sunned, 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 Hobart Town for four years... View more info
By: BRYCE, David J.
Price: $135.00
Publisher: Hobart, Davidia Publishing: 1997
Seller ID: 8708
4to. [viii], 184, xii (alphabetical index), xxvi (index by address), [6] pp. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. *** Only 300 copies were issued. View more info
By: BUFTON, John
Price: $485.00
Publisher: Hobart, Etched and printed at "The Examiner" and "Weekly Courier" Offices, Launceston for S.G. Loone: 1905
Seller ID: 4470
First edition. Small 4to. [xvi], 536pp, well illustrated including small photographs of each soldier. Original black cloth (slightly faded, extremities slightly rubbed, a few trifling marks), title blocked in gilt on front board, brown patterned endpapers, all edges sprinkled in red. Slight foxing on the engraved half-title, otherwise this is a very good clean copy of a book often let down by its binding. View more info
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 View more info
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... View more info
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). View more info
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. Owner's details on title-page. ***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 th... View more info
By: BURN, David.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press: 1973
Seller ID: 4471
185pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine slightly dulled, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0858530139 View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Burnie State High School: 1952
Seller ID: 23903
32pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff wrappers. A couple of slight marks on the covers: a very good copy. ***The annual school magazine for 1952. View more info
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. View more info
By: BURNS, K.L.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hobart, Department of Mines, Tasmania: 1964
Seller ID: 22533
270pp, 16 black & white photographic plates, 85 figures (maps/sections) including 6 folding maps in rear pocket, tables. Side stapled in soft covers (some areas of sunning, stamp on front cover) Very good. View more info
By: BUTTON, Henry.
Price: $110.00
Publisher: Launceston, Regal Press for The Examiner: 1993
Seller ID: 6053
Facsimile reprint; 100 copies thus. 471pp, plus [27]pp (new extended index), frontis, 36 illustrations. Case-bound in blue cloth, gold-blocked titles on the spine and upper board. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0949457558 ***Much on early Launceston and environs. Button was editor of The Examiner, and mayor of the city. View more info
By: BUTTON, Henry.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Launceston, The Examiner: 1993
Seller ID: 24870
Facsimile reprint. 480pp, frontis, 36 illustrations, new extended index. Soft covers; slight crease near spine on front corner. A good to very good clean copy. ***Much on early Launceston and environs. Button was editor of The Examiner, and Mayor of the city. View more info
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. View more info
By: CALDER, James.
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1985
Seller ID: 36222
#7 of 175 numbered copies, the first ten of which are special, thus, initialled by the publisher. Small 8vo. 52pp. Hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch. Full green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt and with two raised bands. A fine clean copy. ***From Calder’s surveying days, first published in the Tasmanian Tribune in 1876 (and not since). View more info
By: CALDER, James.
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1979
Seller ID: 36208
From James Calder's text of 1873 together with newly discovered manuscripts, edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds. #XXX of 750 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. Folio, 192pp, 4 plates from sketches by Thomas Bock. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. View more info
By: CALDER, James.
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1985
Seller ID: 8027
175 numbered copies. 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). View more info
By: CALDER, James.
Price: $135.00
Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1984
Seller ID: 36174
#54 of 175 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. Crown 8vo. 78pp. Olive green buckram with title label on upper board and dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***Most of the text first appeared in parts in the colonial press: this first complete publication has drawn on the Calder Papers in the La Trobe Library, Melbourne. View more info
By: CALDER, James.
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1984
Seller ID: 36223
#9 of 175 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher, of which the first ten are special, thus. Crown 8vo. 78pp. Hand set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch. Full green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt and with two raised bands. A fine clean copy. ***Most of the text first appeared in parts in the colonial press: this first complete publication has drawn on the Calder Papers in the La Trobe Library, Melbourne. View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Hobart, Monotone Art Printers: 1930
Seller ID: 27458
First edition. 160pp, illustrated, advertisements. This copy does not have the folding map, but evidently was issued without it (we have seen many others thus). Staple-bound with soft covers, as issued, slight chipping at head and tail of spine and slight rubbing of the edges, a small faint owner's name-stamp on the front. A good clean copy. ***An owner has helpfully corrected the mileage tables in the Plume adverts on the inside of both wrappers. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
By: CATO, Nancy
Price: $35.00
Publisher: London, New English Library: 1988
Seller ID: 14417
First (and only) edition. 262pp. Soft covers. Edges a little yellowed, as usual. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0450419053 ***Fictional account of Ronald Campbell Gunn, the Tasmanian botanist and associate of William and Joseph Hooker, and Sir John and Lady Franklin. View more info
By: Cerutty, Leonard (editor).
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, ANZAAS: 1949
Seller ID: 25212
Prepared for the members of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science on the occasion of its Meeting held in Hobart, January 1949. Soft covers (spine sunned). A nice clean copy: good to very good. ***Includes papers by leading Tasmanian scholars - including S.W. Carey, N.J.B. Plomley, Winifred Curtis, W.H. Hudspeth, A.W. Knight, K.M. Dallas - on geography, geology and mining, zoology, vegetation, history, fisheries, hydro-electric power, forestry, agriculture, education and culture, and economic and social conditions. View more info
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. View more info
By: CHAUNCY, Nan
Price: $22.00
Publisher: London, Oxford: 1958
Seller ID: 4499
Illustrated by Shirley Hughes. First issue in Oxford Children's Library. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (extremities rubbed, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. View more info
By: CHAUNCY, Nan.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Bagdad (Tas), Friends of Chauncy Vale: 2005
Seller ID: 36142
Reprint of the Oxford edition, illustrated by Margaret Horder. Soft covers; extremities a trifle rubbed. A good to very good clean copy. ISBN 0975824708 View more info
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. View more info
By: CHRISTENSEN, E.M. and M.C. Jones.
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Lindisfarne, Tas, Authors: 1997
Seller ID: 11536
198pp, b&w photographs, line illus. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646319450 ***Lindisfarne, on the eastern shore of the Derwent near Hobart. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Port Arthur Historic Sites: 2009
Seller ID: 26655
(Port Arthur Occasional Papers No 2.) 171pp, sepia photographs and illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0957939477 ***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/antiquar... View more info
By: CLARK, Julia.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hobart, Corporation of the City of Hobart: 1997
Seller ID: 6363
Oblong 4to. 88pp, predominantly photographic illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Published as an annotated catalogue for a photographic exhibition at the Town Hall 1988. Covering the period from Hobart's first municipal elections to the eve of the first world war. View more info
