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Irish Traces on Tasmanian History 1803-2004.

By: DAVIS, Richard.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Hobart, Sassafras Books: 2005

Seller ID: 21524

226pp. Soft covers; slight reading creases to spine, otherwise a very good clean copy.
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Eighty Years' Labor : the ALP in Tasmania, 1903-1983.

By: DAVIS, Richard.

Price: $35.00

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; signed by the author, ISBN 0859012212 ***The first full history of the Australian Labor Party in Tasmania.
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The Tasmanian Gallows: a study of capital punishment.

By: DAVIS, Richard.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press: 1974

Seller ID: 7034

120pp, 6 illustrations. Cloth with dustwrapper (slight loss at head of spine, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ***Covers the colonial period, and up to 1968 when the death penalty was abolished.
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Over the Fence : Tasmanian bush yarns.

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.
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A Narrative of a Voyage to New Holland and Van Diemen's Land. Facsimile extract from: Narrative of Voyages and Travels, in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

By: DELANO, Amaso.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press: 1973

Seller ID: 25993

500 copies. [58]pp. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ***Facsimile extract from Amasa Delano's 1817 'Narrative of Voyages and Travels...' (Ferguson 673).
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Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall : coloinial medical scientist & moral activist. Includes the text of his 1833 shipboard diary.

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.
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Varieties of Vice-Regal Life.

By: DENISON, Sir William

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...
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Varieties of Vice-Regal Life (Van Diemen's Land section).

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...
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Garden Peace and Christmas Tales.

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).
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Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land in the ship Skelton in the year 1820.

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.
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Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land in the ship Skelton in the year 1820.

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.
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Narrative of a Voyage to New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land in the ship Skelton in the year 1820.

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.
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Wild Rivers : Franklin - Denison - Gordon.

By: DOMBROVSKIS, Peter (photographs by).

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Hobart, Peter Dombrovskis: 1983

Seller ID: 31432

Text by Bob Brown. Ecological notes by Jamie Kirkpatrick. First edition. Large 4to. 128pp, colour photographic illustrations, line illustrations, map. Canvas cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0959753036 ***The late doyen of Tasmanian wilderness photographers.
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Wild Rivers : Franklin - Denison - Gordon.

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. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0959753044 ***The late doyen of Tasmanian wilderness photographers.
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The Quiet Land.

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.
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The Quiet Land.

By: DOMBROVSKIS, Peter (photographs) & Ellen Miller (text).

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Peter Dombrovskis: 1977

Seller ID: 6067

First edition. 4to. 112pp, 47 colour photographs. Canvas cloth with dustwrapper. Almost all copies of the first edition suffer from slight bowing of the boards and/or browning and bubbling of the lamination on the dustwrapper. This one has both of these afflicitions, but much less than usual, indeed both are quite slight, although the dustwrapper front flap is price-clipped. A nice clean copy in good to very good condition. ISBN 0959753001 ***Dombrovskis' first book, mostly pictures of the Tasmanian wilderness, but includes a few shots of the built environment.
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Dombrovskis : a photographic collection.

By: Dombrovskis, Peter.

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Hobart, West Wind Press: 1998

Seller ID: 36171

Essay by Bob Brown. A Personal and Natural History by Jamie Kirkpatrick. First (only) edition: the slipcased issue. Large 4to. 196pp, 150 colour plates. Black cloth with photographic portrait laid into front cover, with matching black cloth-covered slipcase, lettered in red and with a smaller inlaid portrait. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0958683328 ***4000 (unnumbered) copies thus, but the book went out-of-print immediately on publication and is now very hard to find.
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Dombrovskis : a photographic collection.

By: Dombrovskis, Peter.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Hobart, West Wind Press: 1998

Seller ID: 7571

Essay by Bob Brown. A Personal and Natural History by Jamie Kirkpatrick. Large square 4to. 196pp, 150 colour plates. Black cloth with dustwrapper, with a heavy actetate protective sleeve (as issued). A fine clean copy. ISBN 0958683328 ***The first issue was of 4000 copies, which came in a slip-case, and went out-of-print almost immediately. This subsequent issue went the same way soon after.
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Building on Firm Foundations. The Cooper family in Tasmania: stonemasons, builders and architects.

By: DOOLEY, Lorraine.

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.
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Federation : Australia's adventure peak.

By: DORAN, Kevin.

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Hobart, Desdicahdo: 2004

Seller ID: 18962

Small 8vo. 128pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Inscribed and signed by the author. ISBN 095869351X ***Federation Peak in Tasmania's south-west.
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A Story of a Pioneering Family in Van Diemen's Land.

By: DOUGHARTY, Kate Hamilton.

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.
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A Century of Tasmanian Methodism 1820-1920.

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.
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Making Their Own Way : the Dunbabins on Maria Island 1869-1876.

By: DUNBABIN, Tom.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Dunalley (Tas), Bangor Publications: 2010

Seller ID: 36445

Large 8vo. 144pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ***Signed by the author. ISBN 0646542311 ***The story of two brothers establishing a farm on Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, based mostly on surviving letters.
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The Fabric of Launceston : a collaborative community history.

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'.
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The Discovery of Tasmania: journal extracts from the expeditions of Abel Janszoon Tasman and Marc-Joseph Marion Dufresne.

By: DUYKER, Edward (ed).

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.
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Reverend George Eastman: the convicts' good parson, Van Diemen's Land 1844-1870.

By: EASTMAN, Terence George & Pamela Tyson.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Victoria (BC, Canada) & Hobart (Tasmania), Tasmania Convict Free Press: 2019

Seller ID: 36266

Oblong 4to. 124pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. ***Signed by the authors, and with a small sticker on the front cover reading 'autographed edition' [i.e. issue]. ISBN 1771367172
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Defying the Odds : the history of the Burnie Agricultural & Pastoral Society.

By: EBDON, Annette

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Burnie, The Society: 1987

Seller ID: 5433

92pp, illus. Soft covers. Very good.
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ORR.

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...
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Guide to the Public Records of Tasmania: Colonial Secretary's Office / Governor's Office / Convict Department.

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.
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Tasmania by Road and Track.

By: EMMETT, E.T.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1962

Seller ID: 4597

Reprint. 176pp, illustrated, map. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***A classic account of a walking tour by the legendary buswalker and pioneer of the Tasmanian tourist industry.
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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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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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Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Limited. Official Opening of the Sulphate of Ammonia Plant by His Excellency, the Governor of Tasmania, the Right Honourable Sir Ronald Cross, Bart., KCMG, KCVO. 1st November 1956.

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.
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Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Limited. Risdon Works, Tasmania. Description of Activities. March 1958.

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.
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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: $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.
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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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Aborigines in Tasmania : On Being Aboriginal (complete set of 7 booklets and 11 display photographs)

By: Felton, Heather (series editor).

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Tasmania, Education Department: 1984-85.

Seller ID: 36551

Seven oblong booklets and an 'Interim Teachers Guide' (all 21x29cm), 11 large photo-prints (37x27cm) with small caption booklet, all enclosed with a cover sheet in a large plastic sleeve. All in very good to fine clean condition. ***Note that the set was envisaged as 8 booklets and 12 photographs, but neither Book 7 'Acceptance' nor #11 of the large photo-prints were produced. The former is not mentioned at all in the Teachers Guide and the latter was initially described in the guide to the photos but was deleted from later printings. The booklets are (1) Worrete - Moete - Yenner and Dolly Dal...
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Ticklebelly Tales and other stories from the people of the Hydro.

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.
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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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A History of Tasmania from its discovery in 1642 to the present time.

By: FENTON, James

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1978

Seller ID: 36094

(Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions, no 1.) First published Hobart, 1884 (Ferguson 9580). De Luxe issue: #23 of 100 copies thus. 462pp, folding map, 4 coloured plates (Bock aboriginal portraits) & one other (James 'Philosopher' Smith). Full dark blue leather, blind-stamped decorations, spine label and raised bands, with the publisher's plain card sleeve. A fine clean copy.
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