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Price: $15.00
Publisher: Hobart, University of Tasmania: 1969
Seller ID: 17948
4to. 135pp, b&w frontis portraits. Side stapled in soft covers with cloth back strip (chipped at the foot). Small tape mark at head of title-page, otherwise a good clean copy. View more info
By: DAVIS, Richard.
Price: $33.00
Publisher: Hobart, Sassafras Books and the History Dept., University of Tasmania: 1983
Seller ID: 4558
164pp, sketch illustrations (caricatures mostly). Stapled in stiff wrappers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0859012212 ***The first full history of the Australian Labor Party in Tasmania. View more info
By: DAVIS, Richard.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Dublin, Geography Publications: 1989
Seller ID: 23092
72pp, illus, maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. View more info
By: DAVIS, Richard.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hobart, University of Tasmania: 1990
Seller ID: 4560
256pp, black & white photographs. Cloth with dustwrapper (spine little dulled). Inscription on front endpaper. A good clean copy. ISBN 0908528183 View more info
By: DAWSON, Tony.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Sydney, Crossing Press: 2004
Seller ID: 35972
148pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0957829167 View more info
By: DEAN, Geoff.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Dover, Tas, Esperance Press: 1998
Seller ID: 28317
182pp. Soft covers (trifling wear). Owner's name. Good to very good. Inscribed by the author. ISBN 1876342021 ***Short stories by the award-winning Tasmanian author. View more info
By: DENHOLM, Carey & Stefan Petrow.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Australian Scholarly Publishing: 2016
Seller ID: 35928
8vo. xvi, 232pp, illustrated. Soft covers. The final few leaves have a tiny bump at the lower corner, otherwise a very good+ clean (unused) copy. ISBN 1925333639 ***Dr Hall made significant contributions to public health in Tasmania, Hobart in particular, where the his name is remembered in the city's annual environmental award. View more info
Price: $550.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co: 1870
Seller ID: 28954
Two volumes. First edition. [I] xvi, 514, [2] (publisher's advert, verso blank) pp, folding coloured map of Tasmania. [II] viii, 446pp, [2] (publ adverts) pp folding map of Southern India (Madras Presidency). Original maroon cloth, decorated in blind; the extremities rubbed. Vol I: some light marks on the upper board and its top corner is bumped; tiny clean tear in fore-edges of the front free endpaper and half-title. Vol II: 40mm split in the cloth near to the foot of the lower front joint. The volumes now with mylar wrappers. One signature towards the middle of each volume is a little lo... View more info
By: DENISON, Sir William & Lady. Edited by Richard Davis & Stefan Petrow.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 2004
Seller ID: 18700
4to. 298pp, illus. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 1862951675 ***Denison was Lt-Governor of VDL 1847-55. An opinionated military engineer, he argued for the continuation of transportation and resisted the establishment of self-government. His two-volume account of his colonial service (largely composed of letters, as often as not written by his wife) was published in 1869, and contained 'much valuable information…presented in an unusual and lively manner'. This volume reproduces the Tasmanian section, with the addition of scholarly notes and commentaries. Only 250 copies we... View more info
By: DENNISON, C.J.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Hobart, Hobart City Council: 2008
Seller ID: 24574
Oblong 4to. 266pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0980513901 ***Grouped by city street, plus the waterfront and Sandy Bay, with location maps. Each establishment is illustrated with an old photograph or contemporary print/sketch and a small picture of the building or site today, and brief historical information. View more info
By: Devonport:
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Devon Historical Society: [1990?]
Seller ID: 9554
56pp, profusely illustrated with sepia photographs, folding panorama at rear. Stapled in pictorial wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. View more info
By: Devonport:
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Devon Historical Society: 1990
Seller ID: 9553
Small 4to. 144 sepia photographs. Stapled in stiff pictorial wrappers (a trifle soiled). A good clean copy. View more info
By: DICK, C. I. [Charlotte Isabel]
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Hobart, Monotone Art Printers: 1927
Seller ID: 17603
Tall 8vo. 70pp. Yapp-style soft covers (faded, the edges slightly creased). Small round stain near lower corner of front cover, evident also on first (blank) leaf, some spotting early and late and one the edges, otherwise a good to very good clean copy. ***A collection of short prose pieces and some poetry, privately issued (see Morris Miller/Macartney, p151). View more info
By: DIXON, James.
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1984
Seller ID: 36010
(Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions no 7.) First published Edinburgh, 1822 (Ferguson 858). #19 of 25 copies thus, from a total print-run of 200. Deluxe issue in full black kangaroo, gilt and blind decorations, raised bands, marbled endpapers; with the original glassine dustwrapper. Small 8vo. [32], 148, 4 (adverts), [6]pp. A fine clean copy. View more info
By: DIXON, James.
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1984
Seller ID: 35300
(Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions no 7.) First published Edinburgh, 1822 (Ferguson 858.) #7 of 25 copies thus, from a total print-run of 200. Deluxe issue in full black kangaroo, gilt and blind decorations, raised bands, marbled endpapers. Small 8vo. [32], 148, 4 (adverts), [6]pp. There are a few slight indentations in the leather on the upper board, otherwise a very good to fine clean copy. A short handwritten note from the publisher, Peter Benson Walker, to the purchaser is loosely inserted. View more info
By: DIXON, James.
Price: $165.00
Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1984
Seller ID: 5327
(Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions no 7.) First published Edinburgh, 1822 (Ferguson 858). #70 of 200 numbered copies (175 thus). Small 8vo. [32], 148, 4 (adverts), [6]pp. Half black kangaroo and marbled boards. A fine clean copy. View more info
By: DOMBROVSKIS, Peter (photographs by).
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Hobart, Peter Dombrovskis: 1983
Seller ID: 21263
Text by Bob Brown. Ecological notes by Jamie Kirkpatrick. First edition. Large 4to. 128pp, colour photographic illustrations, line illustrations, map. Canvas cloth with dustwrapper (spine, and adjacent areas of the rear, quite faded). The book itself is a very good clean copy. ISBN 0959753036 ***The late doyen of Tasmanian wilderness photographers. View more info
By: DOMBROVSKIS, Peter (photographs by). Text by Bob Brown. Ecological notes by Jamie Kirkpatrick.
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Hobart, Peter Dombrovskis: 1983
Seller ID: 5446
Second edition [impression]. Large 4to.128pp, 64 colour photographic illustrations (several double-page), text illustrations, map. Canvas cloth with dustwrapper. One small and faint ink stamp of an aged care organisation on title page, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0959753044 ***The late doyen of Tasmanian wilderness photographers. View more info
By: DOMBROVSKIS, Peter (photographs) & Ellen Miller (text).
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Hobart, Peter Dombrovskis: 1978
Seller ID: 5587
Soft cover reprint. 4to. 112pp, 47 colour photographs. A very good clean copy. ISBN 095975301X ***Dombrovskis's first book, includes a few shots of historic buildings but mostly images of the Tasmanian wilderness. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2014
Seller ID: 32774
xii, 243pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers with french flaps. Fine (new). Signed by the author. ISBN 0992482100 *** The story of five generations of the Cooper family in Tasmania - and in the building trades - since 1855, with an emphasis on its considerable contribution to the built heritage of Hobart. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Launceston, Author?: 1953
Seller ID: 10255
Preface by Karl von Stieglitz. 96pp. Stapled in wrappers. A very good clean copy. Owner's small name stamp inside front wrapper. ***A fictionalised account of the author's forebears - the Grey and Innes families - in early VDL. View more info
By: DUGAN, C.C.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Methodist Assembly: 1920
Seller ID: 5727
Small 8vo. 110pp, 5 plates. Stapled with wrappers drawn on, as issued. The pages are rather yellowed but a good to very good clean copy. View more info
By: DUNBABIN, Tom.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Dunalley (Tas), Bangor Publications: 2010
Seller ID: 28502
Large 8vo. 144pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0646542311 ***The story of two brothers establishing a farm on Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, based mostly on surviving letters. View more info
By: DUNNING, Tom; Barbara Valentine & Paul Richards (eds)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Launceston, LGH Historical Committee: 2016
Seller ID: 34789
First printing of 300 copies. Small 4to. 306pp, a few illustrations. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0994538669 ***Over 50 authors have contributed short essays on the aboriginal, convict, colonial, social, transport, business, religious, institutional, cultural, sporting etc etc history of Tasmania's 'northern capital'. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, St David's Park Publ.: [1992]
Seller ID: 4584
Translated by Edward, Herman & Maryse Duyker. 108pp, case-bound in pictorial cloth. A very good clean copy. ***Translations, original texts and biographical notes from the first two European expeditions to sight VDL. Extracts from Tasman, Arnoldus Montanus (citing Henrik Haelbos), Crozet, Le Jar du Clesmeur, Le Dez, Roux and Chevillard de Montesson. View more info
By: EARDLEY WILMOT, Sir Eardley (signed by). Joseph Speed.
Price: $285.00
Publisher: 1846
Seller ID: 35575
Town Allotment purchase document on vellum (390x600mm), folded, with diagram of the block of land, and seal. To JOSEPH SPEED, for a block of one acre and 14 perches in Kempton, on the corner of Elizabeth and Louisa Streets, adjoining land belonging to George Otter (to the NE) and John Olive (to the SE). Annual quit rent £1.5s. Signed by the Lt. Governor, Sir John Eardley Eardley-Wilmot and by J.E. Bicheno, Colonial Secretary, dated 2 October 1846 (Vic 10). A filing notation on the verso records that the purchase was registered with the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land on 13 October 1846... View more info
By: EBDON, Annette
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Burnie, The Society: 1987
Seller ID: 5433
92pp, illus. Soft covers. Very good. View more info
By: EDDY, W.H.C.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Brisbane, Jacaranda: 1961
Seller ID: 4932
764pp. Cloth with dustwrapper. Small hole in title-page from the attempted removal of an owner's name; otherwise a very good clean copy. Loosely inserted: 'A Brief History of the Orr Case', issued by the Tasmania University Union, July 1963 (12pp, stapled, as issued; the wrappers yellowed). ***A mammoth and detailed account of the trials and tribulations of Sydney Sparkes Orr, who was dismissed from the University of Tasmania in 1956, largely because of an affair with one of his students, and whose 'cause' was taken up by academics and others all round the nation. It has been suggested that th... View more info
By: EDGECOMBE, Jean.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Sydney, Author: 1986
Seller ID: 4620
149pp, illustrated, maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***History, natural history etc. View more info
Price: $110.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau: [1934]
Seller ID: 35259
4to. 48pp, many photos (one of Lord Baden-Powell at the Great Lake, with his catch), and colour reproductions of watercolour Tasmanian landscapes by John Eldershaw. Stapled in pictorial wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. View more info
By: ELDERSHAW, P.R.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers & Proceedings: 1968
Seller ID: 16538
[with] 'Peter Ross Eldershaw: a memoir', by Robert Sharman. Volume 15/3, Jan 1968, pp i-x, 79-149. Stapled in the original wrappers, as issued. ***Three essays. View more info
By: ELIAS, Peter & Ann (editors).
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Hobart Hebrew Congregation: 2003
Seller ID: 35888
Small 4to. 282pp, b&w photographs and maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646422073 ***Twenty-four articles, some short biographies, bibliographic essay, record of Jewish deaths 1804-1954, indexed. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Queenstown (Tas), Eric Thomas Galley Museum: [2005?]
Seller ID: 34923
4to. [ii], 252pp, illustrated. Duplicated typescript, comb-bound with laminated wrappers. A very good clean copy. *** A 'comprehensive record of the unfortunate events of October 12, 1912 and their aftermath' compiled from press reports and other contemporary accounts. View more info
By: Evans, Caroline (editor and interviewer)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Taroona, Tas, Mary's Grange: 2001
Seller ID: 28411
#159 of ??? copies. Oblong 4to. 158pp, illustrated. Metallic ring-binding with soft covers drawn over, in imation of an old photo album (a triumph of what must have seemed a cute idea over utility). Fine. ISBN 0646414690 ***Oral history - interviews with ten residents of a Tasmanian aged care community. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Heinemann: 1967
Seller ID: 25427
Facsimile (first published 1822). 8vo. 140pp, coloured folding map at rear, folding frontis view of Hobart Town. Introductory Note by K.R. von Stieglitz (8pp) loosely inserted (as issued). Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (the cream/red one: spine sunned, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ***This facsimile includes the map which was issued separately to the original edition and is very rarely found with it. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Heinemann: 1967
Seller ID: 24210
Facsimile (first published 1822). 140pp, coloured folding map at rear, folding frontis view of Hobart Town; Introductory Note by K.R. von Stieglitz (8pp) loosely inserted, as issued. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (the white one, extremities a little rubbed, slight soiling, now in protective sleeve). Owner's details on front paste-down, the insert's staples rusted, otherwise a good clean copy. ***This facsimile includes the map which was issued separately to the original edition and is very rarely found with it. View more info
By: EVANS, J.W.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Hobart, Department of Agriculture, Tasmania: 1943
Seller ID: 4604
178pp, illustrated. Cloth backed papered boards. A very good clean copy. View more info
By: EZ Co.:
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Hobart, EZ Co.: [1956]
Seller ID: 23112
4to. [24]pp, illustrated in b&w and colour, 4pp coloured flow diagram (industrial process) tipped-in, full-page coloured map. Stapled in wrappers. Very good. View more info
By: EZ Co.:
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Melbourne, EZ Co.: [1958]
Seller ID: 23111
4to. [64]pp, illustrated in black & white and colour, 4 folding coloured diagrams (industrial processes), full-page coloured map. Soft covers. First page a little spotted, small damp spot at lower edges of first 12pp, with slight damage to one leaf, otherwise very good. View more info
By: Fagan, Mavis & Irene Isles, with the assistance of Janet Cretan.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, [The Society,: 1989]
Seller ID: 4669
78pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***The Society - originally known as Nil Desperandum - was founded by Lady Teresa Hamilton, wife of the Governor of Tasmania 1889-92. View more info
By: FARQUHAR, B.A.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Launceston, Regal Press: 1992
Seller ID: 14307
Third impression. 292pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0949457396 ***The well-known Tasmanian farmer, of 'Rushy Lagoon' in the far north-east. View more info
By: FARQUHAR, B.A.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Launceston, Regal Press: 1992
Seller ID: 30643
Third impression. 292pp, illustrated, map. Pictorial papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0949457396 ***The well-known Tasmanian farmer, of 'Rushy Lagoon' in the far north-east. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Banks Society: 2009
Seller ID: 22644
Edited, with an Introduction and Commentary, by John Currey. 108pp, frontis portrait & 11 illustrations (3 coloured). Printed on Mohawk Superfine Soft White; stiff card covers with coloured dustwrapper, place ribbon. ISBN 0949586285 ***Fawkner was a boy when he arrived at the Derwent with David Collins' settlement party. His previously unpublished memoir was written late in his life, following a visit to Hobart to talk to the few remaining survivors of those early days. Based on memory (his own and others') and hearsay, it contains some errors of fact; nonetheless it is valuable record, wri... View more info
By: FELTON, Heather.
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Hobart, Hydro Tasmania: 2013
Seller ID: 31236
Revised edition. Large thick (and heavy) 4to. 512pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ISBN 0646477242 ***A social history of Tasmania's 20th century hydro-industrialisation, told from the viewpoints of employees, contractors and families of the Hydro-Electric Commission. View more info
By: Female Convict Research Centre : edited by Alison Alexander.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Convict Women's Press: 2014
Seller ID: 32958
230pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Fine (new). ***Background articles on early George Town and its female factory - established in 1822 and closed in 1834 when the remaining inmates were moved to Launceston - with biographies of 31 women who spent time there. View more info
By: Female Factory Research Group: edited by Lucy Frost.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Convict Women's Press: 2011
Seller ID: 29677
238pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0987144308 ***Background articles on the Ross Female Factory (1848-54), and biographies of inmates. View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1986
Seller ID: 4607
#58 of 155 copies, numbered and initialled by the publisher. Crown 8vo. 88pp, full cloth with paper title-label and dustwrapper (slightly rubbed along top edge, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $300.00
Publisher: London, Edward Arnold: 1901
Seller ID: 15848
First edition. 396pp, 32pp publishers adverts at rear. Original blue cloth, decorated in blind, gilt spine titles, extremities a trifle rubbed, small scuff to the cloth at foot of spine (now in protective mylar wrapper). 'With the publisher's compliments' ink stamp, faintly, on half-title. A few pages towards the rear have been untidily opened, with the loss of the top corner of one leaf (well away from the text) and a closed tear to the top corner of the next. Otherwise a very good clean copy. View more info
By: FENTON, James.
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Paul Fenton: [1999]
Seller ID: 7510
Facsimile: first published in Melbourne, 1886 (Ferguson 9581). Small 8vo. xiv (including 5pp Introduction to new edition), 144pp, frontis portrait and another. Cloth-textured papered boards, no dustwrapper (as issued), gilt-stamped title; light surface rubbing as usual. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646372920 View more info
By: FENTON, James.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Devonport (Tas), C.L. Richmond & Sons: 1964
Seller ID: 21952
Facsimile, first published in 1891 (Ferguson 9582). 204pp, frontis portrait of author, map, 4 illustrations. Case-bound in blue cloth (as issued, without a wrapper). A very good clean copy. View more info
