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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. 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...
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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 XXXI, December 1952.

By: Burnie State High School:

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.
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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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Geological Survey Explanatory Report. DEVONPORT. (One Mile Geological Map Series K'55-6-29)

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.
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Flotsam and Jetsam : floating fragments of a life in England and Tasmania. An autobiographical sketch with an outline of the introduction of responsible government.

By: BUTTON, Henry.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Launceston / Hobart, A.W. Birchall / J. Walch: [1909]

Seller ID: 36353

First edition. 480pp, frontis, 36 illustrations. Original blue cloth, decorated in gilt, the spine slightly faded, extremities a little rubbed. The cloth has only a few tiny marks of flecking which often affect this book. A very good clean copy. WITH: 'Comprehensive and enlarged index to Flotsam and Jetsam... compiled by Mrs Dent, The Public Library, Mechanics Institute, Launceston' (1965). Typescript, 20x13cm, bound in cloth-covered boards, cut-flush. A touch of flecking to the cloth but in very good clean condition. ***Much on early Launceston and environs. Button was editor of The Examiner...
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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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Rambles on Betsey's Island, Tasman's Peninsula, and Forestier's Peninsula in February 1848.

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).
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Brady, McCabe... and their associates. Bushrangers in Van Diemen's Land 1824-27.

By: CALDER, James.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1979

Seller ID: 23359

From James Calder's text of 1873 together with newly discovered manuscripts, edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds. #336 of 750 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. Folio, 192pp, 4 plates from sketches by Thomas Bock. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. Top edges with a little pale foxing, otherwise a very good clean copy.
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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 Distant Island.

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.
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Queen Trucanini.

By: CATO, Nancy & Vivienne Rae Ellis.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1976

Seller ID: 12816

First edition. 256pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***A novel.
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Handbook for Tasmania.

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.
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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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They Found a Cave.

By: CHAUNCY, Nan.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1958

Seller ID: 8542

Illustrated by Margaret Horder. Second edition (first impression in Oxford Children's Library). 196pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (edges rubbed, clear tape repairs to head and tail of spine and front corners; both sides alas, but neatly done, now in protective sleeve). Some offsetting on the endpapers, otherwise a very good clean copy in a good-only wrapper.
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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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Before They Built the Bridge : an anecdotal history.

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.
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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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This Southern Outpost : Hobart 1846-1914.

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.
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Stories of Australia in the early days.

By: CLARKE, Marcus.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson: 1897

Seller ID: 21954

Second edition. xxii, 200pp. Original green cloth, decorated in black with gilt spine lettering; the edges uncut. A couple of small marks to the cloth, but in very bright condition. Heavy foxing on the endpapers and adjacent leaves, otherwise very clean. Prize inscription on front paste-down. A very good copy. ***Includes a biography of the author and twenty well-known colonial tales, including many concerning Tasmania - Abel Tasman, the 1820 Hobart Town Gazette, James Ross (his 'settler's life'), Jorgen Jorgenson, Michael Howe, the 'Cyprus' seizure, Macquarie Harbour, William Buckley, John Mi...
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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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Port Cygnet 1914-1919. A History of Tasmania : Volume 4.

By: COAD, David.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Kingston (Tas), Author: 2014

Seller ID: 29752

4to. 199pp, illustrated with black & white photographs. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ***Chapters on: Gallipoli 1915; Home Front 1915; The Somme 1916; Home Front 1917 (2); The Road to Passchendaele; The Final Push; Home Front 1918; and an Epilogue, Bibliography and Index of Servicemen.
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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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Account of a Voyage to Establish a Settlement in Bass's Straits; to which is added a description of Port Phillip and an account of the landing in the Derwent in 1804.

By: COLLINS, David (edited by John Currey).

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Melbourne, The Colony Press: 1986

Seller ID: 36546

Edited from the despatches of David Collins… by John Currey. First edition of 320 numbered copies. 4to. 258pp, 15 illustrations, folding map. Quarter leather, spine label, marbled-paper boards; deckled fore-edges. The paper on the upper board unevenly sunned (two unfaded stripes left), top edges a trifle spotted, otherwise a very good to fine clean copy.
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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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Child of Gondwana : the geological making of Tasmania.

By: CORBETT, Keith

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2019

Seller ID: 36108

Large 8vo. 198pp, well illustrated in colour, maps. Pictorial papered boards. A fine clean copy.
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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: $60.00

Publisher: Hobart, Research Tasmania: 2013

Seller ID: 31696

Small 4to. xxiv, 326pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Fine. 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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