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Van Diemen's Land : hell in heaven.

By: EMMETT, E.T. : edited by Daniel Ford.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Canberra, ASPG: 2018

Seller ID: 36338

xii, 272pp, genealogical table. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Best known for his 'Tasmania by Road and Track' (1952), Emmett was the first director of Tasmania's tourist bureau. This hitherto unpublished work is a fictionalised account of his family in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania, from their arrival in 1819 to the 1930s.
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The North Lyell Mining Disaster.

By: Eric Thomas Galley Museum

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.
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Grange Heritage. Ten Tasmanian memories of the nation's life 1902-2001.

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.
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A Geographical, Historical, and Topographical Description of Van Diemen's Land, with important hints to emigrants, and useful information respecting the application for grants of land…

By: EVANS, George William

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.
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Insect Pests and their control.

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.
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Tabart of Fonthill : from England to Van Diemen's Land.

By: EVANS, K. Jane.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Weston-super-Mare, K. Jane Evans and John E. Tabart, for the Tabart Family: 1991

Seller ID: 27603

#77 of ??? copies. Signed by the author. 4to. 178pp, [9] genealogical tables, [4] index of persons, black & white photographs and illustrations, maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0951753800
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Living and Working in Hobart : historical perspectives. Papers and proceedings of the conference held by the Professional Historians Association (Tasmania) Inc on 20 October 2002.

By: EVANS, Kathryn and Ian Terry (eds).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hobart, PHAT: 2003

Seller ID: 16898

4to. 80pp, b&w photographs, line illustrations, maps. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ***Papers on Gertrude Kenny; the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the National Council of Women; living in community housing at Windsor Court; the changing location of Hobart's flour mills; Hobart's war memorials; Hobart city water, street lighting and tram services; larrikins, brawlers and troublemakers in Hobart Town; Tasmania's Bicentenary programme; early settlement and Hobart's Bicentenary.
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Robert Pitcairn 1802-1861. Scottish emigrant, lawyer and law reformer, anti-transportationist and first owner of 'Runnymede' (c. 1836-1850).

By: Evans, Kathryn.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Hobart, National Trust of Australia (Tasmania): 2005

Seller ID: 19692

4to. 22pp. Stapled in illustrated wrappers. A very good clean copy.
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The Hamilton Literary Society 1889-1989.

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.
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Bert's Story.

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.
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Reminiscences of Early Hobart Town, 1804-1810.

By: FAWKNER, John Pascoe.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Banks Society: 2007

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. A very good clean copy. 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 ...
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Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory.

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. A fine clean copy. ***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.
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Convict Lives : Women at Cascades Female Factory.

By: Female Factory Research Group:

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hobart, Research Tasmania: 2009

Seller ID: 26083

188pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A fine clean copy; signed by Lucy Frost, who wrote the introduction and one of the biographies. ISBN 0975678450 ***Short biographies of 33 inmates of the Cascades Female Factory, located in what was sometimes referred to as the 'Valley of the Shadow of Death' beneath Hobart's Mount Wellington.
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Convict Lives at the Ross Female Factory.

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. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0987144308 ***Background articles on the Ross Female Factory (1848-54), and biographies of inmates.
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The Journal of Mrs Fenton : a narrative of her life in India, the Isle of France (Mauritius), and Tasmania during the years 1826-1830.

By: FENTON, Elizabeth:

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, Edward Arnold: 1901

Seller ID: 36390

First edition. 396pp, 32pp publishers adverts at rear. Original blue cloth, decorated in blind, gilt spine titles; head and tail of spine a trifle rubbed. 'With the publisher's compliments' ink stamp on half-title. A little foxing on the endpapers and the edges (fore- and foot-edges uncut). Owner's name (a Fenton) on front endpaper. A very good clean copy.
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The Life and Work of the Reverend Charles Price of Launceston. First Independent Minister in Australia.

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
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A Century Afield : a history of the Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club.

By: FENTON, Janet.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club: 2004

Seller ID: 31223

Large 8vo. 168pp, illustrated. Soft covers (spine a trifle sunned). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0957852916
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A History of Port Davey, South West Tasmania. Volume One : Fleeting Hopes

By: FENTON, Tony.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2017

Seller ID: 35237

Small 4to. 312pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0995408246 ***Longlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize 2017 (Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes), with a sticker on the cover to that effect.
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A History of Port Davey, South West Tasmania. Volume One : Fleeting Hopes

By: FENTON, Tony.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2017

Seller ID: 36568

Small 4to. 312pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial papered boards. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0995408238 ***Longlisted for the Margaret Scott Prize 2017 (Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes), with a sticker on the cover to that effect.
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Tasmanians All.

By: FERRALL, R.A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Launceston, [Author?]: 1982

Seller ID: 4615

Small 4to. 176pp, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper (head of spine with short closed tears). A very good clean copy. ***Tasmanian personalities.
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Partly Personal : recollections of a one-time Tasmanian journalist.

By: FERRALL, R.A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press: 1974

Seller ID: 4613

4to. 140pp, illus. Cloth with dustwrapper (extremities a little rubbed, some silverfishing to spine). A very good clean copy.
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Island Summers : a history of Tasmanian representative cricket.

By: FINLAY, Ric.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hobart, St David's Park Publishing: 1992

Seller ID: 13561

Foreword by David Boon. 232pp, illus. Soft covers (slight creasing to rear). A good to very good clean copy. ISBN 072462273X
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Image for Mortmain : a collection of choice petitions, memorials and letters of protest and request from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land; written by divers persons, both eminent and lowly…

Mortmain : a collection of choice petitions, memorials and letters of protest and request from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land; written by divers persons, both eminent and lowly…

By: FitzSymonds, Eustace (ed).

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Hobart, Sullivan's Cove: 1977

Seller ID: 4891

Collected and transcribed from the originals by Eustace FitzSymonds, with numerous pages of the manuscripts shewn in facsimile. #348 of 500 numbered copies. Folio. 262pp, illustrations (facsimiles of some of the documents). Full cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy.
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A Terrible Beauty : a history of the Gordon River country.

By: FLANAGAN, Richard.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Greenhouse: 1985

Seller ID: 5330

First edition. 4to. 100pp, illustrated. Soft covers (spine sunned). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0864360010
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Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its islands, and on part of the coasts of New South Wales.

By: FLINDERS, Matthew.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Dubbo, Review Publications: 1979

Seller ID: 19174

With an Introduction by George Mackaness. Australian Historical Monographs, reprint series. 58pp, illustrations, 3 charts (2 folding). Stapled in stiff wrappers. A very good clean copy.
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Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its islands, and on part of the coasts of New South Wales; intended to accompany the charts of the late discoveries in those countries.

By: FLINDERS, Matthew.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia: 1965

Seller ID: 5788

(Australiana Facsimile Editions, no 66.) First published 1801 (Ferguson 329). Large 4to. 36pp. Blue synthetic cloth (without a dustwrapper, as issued). A very good clean copy. The edition was 597 copies according to Peade. ***The three charts were separately published by Arrowsmith in 1800 and 1801.
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Observations on the Coasts of Van Diemen's Land, on Bass's Strait and its islands, and on part of the coasts of New South Wales.

By: FLINDERS, Matthew.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Sydney, D.S. Ford, Printers [for the editor]: 1946

Seller ID: 8074

With an Introduction by George Mackaness. (Australian Historical Monographs, No. XIV.) #8 of 90 copies for sale (and a further 10 for presentation), all signed by the editor. 60pp, 7 illustrations, 3 charts (2 folding). As issued, stapled in stiff wrappers (extremities slightly rubbed). A very good clean copy.
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The Problem of the Birth of the Kangaroo.

By: FLYNN, Professor T. Thomson.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Workers' Educational Association of Tasmania: 1928

Seller ID: 14173

(The Searchlight Series, no 1.) 12pp. Stapled in the original grey wrappers. The stapled a little rusted and a little spotting on the centre pages, otherwise a very good clean copy. ***Flynn was the Ralston Professor of Biology at the University of Tasmania. His son Errol later achieved a measure of fame as a film actor.
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The Rainforest of Tasmania.

By: Forests:

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forestry Commission: 1987

Seller ID: 11742

Produced by an editorial team representing the Working Group for Rainforest Conservation. Large 4to. 128pp, well illustrated in colour. Pictorial papered boards with dustwrapper (extremities a little rubbed, now in protective sleeve). The first (blank) page with a little foxing, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0724615202
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Captain Haughton Forrest.

By: Forrest, Haughton:

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, The Fine Arts Committee, University of Tasmania: 1976

Seller ID: 15584

Exhibition catalogue. 16pp, illustrated in b&w, including a 5pp biographical note, two caricatures & two photos of the artist. Stapled in coloured wrappers, slightly rubbed, but a good to very good clean copy.
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Governor Arthur's Convict System, Van Diemen's Land 1824-36 : a study in colonisation.

By: FORSYTH, W.D.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Sydney, Sydney University Press: 1970

Seller ID: 5445

Reprint (first published 1935). 224pp, b&w frontis portrait. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (a trifle spotted, small stain lower spine, now in protective sleeve). Owner's small name label. A very good clean copy.
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Governor Arthur's Convict System, Van Diemen's Land 1824-36 : a study in colonisation.

By: FORSYTH, W.D.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Sydney, Sydney University Press: 1970

Seller ID: 35999

Reprint (first published 1935). 224pp, b&w frontis portrait. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good+ clean copy.
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The Furneaux Group, Bass Strait: a history.

By: FOWLER, R.M.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Canberra, Roebuck: 1980

Seller ID: 36602

(Roebuck Society Publication no 28.) 394pp, 60 illustrations, endpaper maps. Pictorial cloth, sunned with uneven fading discolouration, lacking the dustwrapper. A good+ clean copy. ***Published posthumously - final editing by J.S. Cumpston at the request of the author's widow. The cover title adds 'Volume I', and Cumpston's introduction speaks of a second volume being in preparation, but it never appeared.
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The Narrative of an Expedition to the Head of the Derwent and to the counties bordering the Huon in 1835.

By: FRANKLAND, George.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1983

Seller ID: 36228

#35 of 155 copies, initialled by the publisher; the first ten of which are special. Hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch. Crown 8vo. 46pp. Dark green cloth, paper title-label on the upper board, with dustwrapper (slight silverfishing to spine, leaving a few tiny holes). A very good+ clean copy in a good wrapper.
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The Narrative of an Expedition to the Head of the Derwent and to the counties bordering the Huon in 1835.

By: FRANKLAND, George.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1983

Seller ID: 36221

#6 of 155 copies, initialled by the publisher, of which the first ten are special, thus. Crown 8vo. 46pp. Full green morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt and with two raised bands. A fine clean copy.
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Some Private Correspondence of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin (Tasmania, 1837-1845).

By: FRANKLIN, Sir John & Lady Jane.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Dubbo, Review Publications: 1977

Seller ID: 6010

With an Introduction, Notes and Commentary by George Mackaness. (Australian Historical Monographs, Vols XVII-XVIII (new series); a reprint of no XV of original series.) Two parts: 126&108pp, each with 12 illustrations. Stapled in stiff green wrappers. A very good clean set.
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Some Private Correspondence of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin (Tasmania, 1837-1845).

By: FRANKLIN, Sir John & Lady Jane.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Sydney, D.S. Ford, Printers [for the editor]: 1947

Seller ID: 31295

With an introduction, notes and commentary by George Mackaness. (Australian Historical Monographs, no XV.) 90 copies for sale (10 for presentation) and 100 copies, not for sale, for the Royal Society of Tasmania. This set is neither numbered nor signed, and is presumably one of the latter group. Two parts: 126 & 108pp, each with 12 illustrations. Stapled in stiff red wrappers, as issued, the yapp-style edges rubbed. Owner's ink stamp at head of both title-pages. A good clean set.
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Some Private Correspondence of Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin (Tasmania, 1837-1845).

By: FRANKLIN, Sir John & Lady Jane.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Sydney, D.S. Ford, Printers [for the editor]: 1947

Seller ID: 36504

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Narrative of Some Passages in the History of Van Diemen's Land, during the last three years of Sir John Franklin's administration of its government.

By: FRANKLIN, Sir John.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Platypus Publ.: 1967

Seller ID: 21951

#570 of 750 copies. Facsimile reprint. 158pp. Canvas cloth, title lettering on upper board. A very good clean copy. ***Sir John's account of his dispute with his former Colonial Secretary, John Montagu. The original was privately issued in a small edition and is very scarce. Each copy bears a presentation inscription 'By Order of Sir John Franklin' on the title page - this facsimile used the copy of R.J. Murchison Esq.
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Narrative of Some Passages in the History of Van Diemen's Land, during the last three years of Sir John Franklin's administration of its government.

By: FRANKLIN, Sir John.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, Platypus Publications: 1967

Seller ID: 4628

#500 of 750 copies. Facsimile reprint. 158pp. Canvas cloth, title lettering on upper board, a little light flecking. A good clean copy. ***Sir John's account of his dispute with his former Colonial Secretary, John Montagu. The original was privately issued in a small edition and is very scarce. Each copy bears a presentation inscription 'By Order of Sir John Franklin' on the title page - this facsimile used the copy of R.J. Murchison Esq.
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Boarding With Friends' : boarding and residential living at The Friends' School, Hobart. 1887-2011.

By: Friends' School:

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hobart, The Friends' School: n.d. [2012?]

Seller ID: 33606

55pp, b&w and coloured photographs. Soft covers. A very good clean copy.
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Convict Lives at the Launceston Female Factory.

By: Frost, Lucy & Alice Meredith Hodgson : editors, for the Female Factory Research Group:

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, Convict Women's Press: 2013

Seller ID: 31306

278pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Small crease to lower corner of front cover, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0987144340 ***Short biographies of 30 inmates of the Launceston's Female House of Correction 1834-55. This was the first purpose-built female penal institution in VDL, but overcrowding and maladministration soon reduced its condition to match the squalor of those it was intended to replace.
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Rainforest fungi of Tasmania and South-East Australia.

By: FUHRER, Bruce & Richard Robinson.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Melbourne, CSIRO: 1992

Seller ID: 14192

96pp, illus in colour. Soft covers (spine a bit sunned - to a brighter shade). A very good clean copy.
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Tigers Roar : celebrating Cricket Tasmania's 150th anniversary.

By: GANDY, Michael; Rick Finlay & Rick Smith.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Cricket Tasmania: 2015

Seller ID: 35400

4to. 306pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0994376111 ***Signed all three authors.
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Immense Enjoyment : the illustrated journals and letters of William L. Wells 1884-1888. The life of an early Quaker family in Tasmania.

By: GARDAM, Faye (ed.).

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Devon Historical Society: 1987

Seller ID: 4636

1000 signed and numbered copies (but this one out-of-series and unsigned). Small 4to. 176pp, illustrated. Leather-grained cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0959321918
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A History of Port Sorell 1844-1994.

By: Gardam, Faye et al (eds).

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Tasmania, Port Sorell Sesquicentenary Committee: 1994

Seller ID: 36449

68pp, illus, 2 maps. Stapled in stiff pictorial wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy.
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Names of Bass Strait.

By: GARDNER, P.D.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ensay (Vic.), Ngarak Press: 1996

Seller ID: 4406

102pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Over 400 names from the Victorian and Tasmanian coasts and the islands.
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Viv and Hilda : meeting the Robeys of Maria Island.

By: GATENBY, Kathy

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2011

Seller ID: 29271

Square 8vo. 144pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial papered boards. Fine (new). ISBN 0987091522
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A Field Guide to Tasmanian Fungi.

By: GATES, Genevive & David Ratkowsky.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Field Naturalists Club: 2014

Seller ID: 33888

254pp, well illustrated in colour. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0957852924
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Recollections of Life in Van Dieman's Land.

By: GATES, William : edited by George Mackaness.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Dubbo, Review Publications: 1977

Seller ID: 4639

Australian Historical Monographs, reprint series. Edited, with an Introduction, Notes and Commentary, by George Mackaness. Two parts: 76&52pp, stiff wrappers. A little light foxing on the title-pages, owner's name in the first part, otherwise a very good clean set.
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