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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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The James of George Town: a colonial maritime, mercantile and family correspondence 1813-1857.

By: BROXAM, Graeme (ed).

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.
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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: 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...
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Tasmanians in the Transvaal War.

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.
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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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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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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: $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.
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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: $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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Topographical Sketches of Tasmania, 1845 and 1847 : from Deloraine to Emu Bay; and to the Great Lake and the Nineteen Lagoons.

By: CALDER, James.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1987

Seller ID: 7974

175 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. Maroon cloth, paper title label on the upper board, with dustwrapper. Small 8vo. 76pp. Hand-set and printed by the Nag's Head Press of NZ. A fine clean copy. ***From Calder’s surveying days, first published in the Hobart Town Mercury in 1865.
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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: 36208

From James Calder's text of 1873 together with newly discovered manuscripts, edited by Eustace Fitzsymonds. 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.
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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. 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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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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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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World's End Was Home.

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.
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They Found a Cave.

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
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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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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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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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Notes on Early Life in New Zealand.

By: CLARKE, George.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Hobart, J. Walch & Sons: 1903

Seller ID: 36384

First edition. 106pp, frontis portrait of the author, 4 plates (Maori chieftans, including Hone Heke). Original green cloth, extremities a trifle rubbed. A very good to fine clean copy; appears unused. ***The frontis shows the author in his role as Chancellor of the University of Tasmania; he had been instrumental in its establishment and its first Vice-Chancellor. Clarke had been born in NSW but went, as a young child, with his missionary parents to the Bay of Islands in the 1820s. He grew up there and, after five years schooling in Hobart Town in the 1830s, became fluent in the Maori languag...
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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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Historic Stanley.

By: CLOSE, Marguerite.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Stanley (Tas), Author: 1996

Seller ID: 34295

Reprint. Oblong 8vo. 68pp, b&w sketch illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Signed by the artist. ISBN 0959851933 *** Cover adds: 'Written and illustrated by Tasmanian artist...'.
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Port Cygnet 1914-1919. A History of Tasmania : Volume 4.

By: COAD, David.

Price: $15.00

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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Port Cygnet English Convicts.

By: COAD, David.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Kingston (Tas), Author: 2017

Seller ID: 36422

4to. 264pp, illustrated with black & white photographs, index. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0980692377 *** 86 mainly English convicts (includes a few Irish and Scots who married an English convict) who settled in the Port Cygnet district of southern Tasmania from the 1840s.
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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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South-West Tasmania : a natural history & visitor's guide.

By: COLLINS, Ken.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Hobart, Heritage Books: 1990

Seller ID: 5069

Small 8vo. 368pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Papered boards with dustwrapper (spine a trifle sunned). A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 187511100X
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THE TASMANIAN AREA SCHOOL.

By: Compiled by officers of the Education Department of Tasmania.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Hobart, Govt. Printer: 1942

Seller ID: 4595

66pp. plus illus., orig. papered boards, very good. ***Enthusiastic (official) account of an educational innovation in which Tasmania led the nation.
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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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Rules and Regulations for the Management of the House of Correction for Females.

By: Convicts:

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1995

Seller ID: 36218

Limited edition reprint: #23 of 105 copies, initialled by the publisher. First printed by J. Ross, Liverpool-street, Hobart-town, 1829 (Ferguson 1301). Small 8vo. 32pp. Full cloth with printed label, plain opaque dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***Arthur's regulations for the VDL Female Factory, located in an unhealthy valley near the Cascades. Ross gazetted these but also issued them separately in a pocket-sized edition, only one copy of which is known to have survived.
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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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Category: Tasmania