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Mrs Fenton's Tasmanian Journal 1829-1830.

By: FENTON, Elizabeth.

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

By: FENTON, James.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1978

Seller ID: 36052

(Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions, no 1.) First published Hobart, 1884 (Ferguson 9580). 462pp, folding map, 4 colour (Bock aboriginal portraits) & one b&w (James 'Philosopher' Smith) plates. Brown cloth, lettered & ruled in black (as issued, without dustwrapper). A very good to fine clean copy.
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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 very good clean copy. ***Signed by the author. ISBN 0995408246
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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 The Railton - Roland Branch Line : a history of railways in the Municipality of Kentish [Tasmania]. Second edition, including Redwater Creek - Sheffield supplement.

The Railton - Roland Branch Line : a history of railways in the Municipality of Kentish [Tasmania]. Second edition, including Redwater Creek - Sheffield supplement.

By: FISHER, Leonard C. & Barbara Wells.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Tasmania, Redwater Stream & Heritage Society: 2008

Seller ID: 35922

Second edition. iv, 106pp, well illustrated. Soft covers. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 0646489186
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Image for Fereday & O'Connor. Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land. Proceedings for Libel, Slander and Malicious Prosecution, 1831. Reported by Robert Lathrop Murray, with Notes & Dramatis Personæ by E. FitzSymonds.

Fereday & O'Connor. Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land. Proceedings for Libel, Slander and Malicious Prosecution, 1831. Reported by Robert Lathrop Murray, with Notes & Dramatis Personæ by E. FitzSymonds.

By: FitzSymonds, Eustace (ed).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Adelaide, James Dally: 2004

Seller ID: 21005

55 numbered copies only, initialled by the publisher. 112pp. Bound at the Chasdor Bindery in pea green buckram, in matching slipcase. A fine clean copy.
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Image for Montagu & Stephen, Van Diemen's Land 1836. Algernon Montagu & Alfred Stephen in Supreme Court proceedings against T.W. Rowlands; with a comment by Robert Lathrop Murray; with Geo. Arthur's despatch.

Montagu & Stephen, Van Diemen's Land 1836. Algernon Montagu & Alfred Stephen in Supreme Court proceedings against T.W. Rowlands; with a comment by Robert Lathrop Murray; with Geo. Arthur's despatch.

By: FitzSymonds, Eustace (ed).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Adelaide, James Dally: 2007

Seller ID: 23899

99 numbered copies only, initialled by the publisher. Small 4to. 168pp. Printed by Hyde Park Press on 118gsm Teton Text and bound by Chasor Bindery in flame red buckram, with matching slipcase. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0975156950 ***The last (and posthumous) book issued under the imprint of the publisher/antiquarian bookseller James Dally (1931-2005), who also published for many years as Sullivan's Cove.
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Gellibrand Days. R.L. Murray and Alfred Stephen, 1825 & 1826, in the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's Land, &c. &c. &c.

By: FitzSymonds, Eustace (ed).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Adelaide, James Dally: 2005

Seller ID: 19781

55 numbered copies only, initialled by the publisher. Small 4to. 144 pages, in Pastoni type with decorative initials, printed on vellum-finish paper and bound in fine English orange cloth with matching slipcase. Fine. ISBN 0975156942 ***The 'joustings' - in print and in correspondence - between the newspaper editor Robert Lathrop Murray and the young Solicitor-General Alfred Stephen, surrounding the latter's resignation and the enquiry into the conduct of Murray's friend, the Attorney-General J.T. Gellibrand.
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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. Slight rubbing to the corners, otherwise 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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My Wicked, Wicked Ways.

By: FLYNN, Errol.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1959

Seller ID: 36399

First edition. 386pp. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. Owner's name. A well-used copy: slightly canted, the cloth silverfished on spine, round glass marks on upper board and rear d/w blurb; the wrapper rather tired but complete, bar a few small chips along the extremities, and in a protective sleeve. A good reading copy. ***Autobiography.
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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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Five Letters from George Frankland in Van Diemen's Land.

By: FRANKLAND, George.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1997

Seller ID: 36230

#14 of 75 numbered copies, initialled by the publisher. Tall 8vo. 32pp. Hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch. Papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***The letters were addressed by the surveyor Frankland to R.W. Hay of the Colonial Office (his patron) between July 1827 and January 1830, giving his perceptions of VDL and telling something of his work and artistic endeavours.
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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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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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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: $60.00

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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A Confidential Despatch from Sir John Franklin on Female Convicts, Van Diemen's Land M.DCCC.XLIII. Addressed to the Secretary of State, Lord Stanley, and now transcribed with notes by Eustace FitzSymonds from the Colonial Office Manuscript.

By: Franklin, Sir John.

Price: $115.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1996

Seller ID: 36220

#20 of 105 numbered copies. 84pp. Papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***Franklin's rather tardy despatch - the subject had been long neglected (as had the appalling conditions in the female establishments) - including much on extent of 'unnatural vice'.
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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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The Horrors of Convict Life.

By: FROST, John

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Hobart, Sullivan's Cove: 1973

Seller ID: 36216

#10 of 150 numbered copies. First published London, 1856 (Ferguson 9781). Small 8vo. 68pp. Case-bound in red buckram with paper title label on upper board and the plain tissue dustwrapper (small chip from foot of spine). Hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch NZ. A very good to fine clean copy. ***The Chartist Frost was sentenced to death for leading an armed uprising after the mass arrests of Chartist leaders in 1839. He was sent instead to Van Diemen's Land.
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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. A fine 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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The Settler in Tasmania 1873-1879.

By: FURLONG, Charles.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1982

Seller ID: 15873

#53 of 150 copies, initialled by the publisher. 132pp, hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch. Green buckram, paper title-labels on spine and upper board, with dustwrapper (spine silverfished with title obscured and several small holes, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy in a silverfished wrapper. ***Originally published in 1879 as Emigration to Tasmania, by A Recent Settler (Ferguson 14764). Furlong farmed near Myrtle Bank in north-east Tasmania.
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The Settler in Tasmania 1873-1879.

By: FURLONG, Charles.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1982

Seller ID: 36229

#52 of 150 copies, initialled by the publisher. 132pp, hand-set and printed at the Nag's Head Press, Christchurch. Green buckram, paper title-labels on spine and upper board, with dustwrapper (spine a little silverfished but only one tiny hole, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy in a good wrapper. ***Originally published in 1879 as Emigration to Tasmania, by A Recent Settler (Ferguson 14764). Furlong farmed near Myrtle Bank in north-east Tasmania.
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Image for Emigration to Tasmania, by A Recent Settler. Dedicated to the sober and industrious toilers of the Mother-land, whether in town or country, struggling for a livelihood, without hope of rising in the social scale.

Emigration to Tasmania, by A Recent Settler. Dedicated to the sober and industrious toilers of the Mother-land, whether in town or country, struggling for a livelihood, without hope of rising in the social scale.

By: FURLONG, Charles]

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, A.H. Moxon: 1879

Seller ID: 21789

Small 8vo. viii, 124pp. Rebound, not recently, in quarter blue morocco and patterned papered boards, without the original stiff wrappers, spine title in gilt. Heavy offsetting on the free endpapers, small brown mark on the top corners of the last few leaves, otherwise a very good clean copy. ***Ferguson 14764; Wilson, Collecting Old Tasmanian Books, pp38-9. The author, retired civil servant Charles George Henry Furlong, emigrated to Tasmania in 1873 and settled in Myrtle Bank in the north-east. He gives a lively account of the voyage and of bush farming, mistakes and all, to serve as a guide f...
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Henry Reed : Van Diemen's Land pioneer.

By: FYSH, Hudson.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press: 1973

Seller ID: 21477

160pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. The half-title has a presentation inscription from a member of the Reed family: 'to show you who really started Victoria & made Tasmania'. ***In addition to his role as a pioneer in both VDL and the Port Phillip district, Reed was instrumental in the formation of the Salvation Army. The author - better known for his role in Australian aviation - is his grandson.
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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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The Ferns of Tasmania : their ecology and distribution.

By: GARRETT, Michael.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Forest Research Council: 1996

Seller ID: 31582

Issued in soft covers and with 100 copies bound thus and signed by the author; but this copy out-of-series (unsigned and unnumbered). 4to. x, 218pp, 150 coloured illustrations, 7 b&w figures (2 maps) , numerous distribution maps. Case-bound in full green leather, gilt titles. A fine clean copy (unused).
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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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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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The South West Book: a Tasmanian wilderness.

By: GEE, Helen & Jane Fenton (eds).

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Australian Conservation Foundation: 1978

Seller ID: 20153

Compiled by Helen Gee, Janet Fenton & Greg Hodge. First edition. 4to. 308pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w, double-page coloured map. Green cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0858020564
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For the Forests : a history of the Tasmanian forest campaigns.

By: GEE, Helen (ed).

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Hobart, The Wilderness Society: 2001

Seller ID: 25115

First edition, special issue of 500 copies numbered (this is #130) and signed by the editor. 4to. 378pp, well illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Printed on 'totally chlorine free' recycled paper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1875768092 ***Short contributions from many (most?) of the activists involved in the campaigns to preserve Tasmania's native forests.
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Tasmanian Literary Landmarks.

By: GIORDANO, Margaret & Don Norman.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, Shearwater Press: 1984

Seller ID: 4650

202pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Very good. ***Short biographies of Tasmanian writers, from Henry Savery to James McAuley.
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John Glover 1767-1849.

By: Glover, John:

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Woollahra, NSW, Rex Irwin:

Seller ID: 4652

Introduction by John McPhee. Small 4to. 32pp, 16 colour and 4 b&w plates. Soft covers (somewhat faded near spine). Very good. ***Exhibition catalogue, October 1986: Rex Irwin, Art Dealer, in conjunction with Spink & Son and Neville Keating Pictures. The subjects of these works are British/European.
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Letters of an Irish Patriot : William Paul Dowling in Tasmania.

By: GLOVER, Margaret & Alf MacLochlainn (eds).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 2005

Seller ID: 20515

144pp. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0909479232 ***Dowling was convicted of sedition in London in 1848, and was transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). Although not a leading member of the Young Ireland movement, his intense patriotism motivated him throughout his life. Dowling remained in the colony, establishing himself as an artist and photographer. His letters give a private account of his expectations and disappointments, and his reflections on local and world affairs.
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Category: Tasmania