Category: Tasmania

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Peace Trust: 1993

Seller ID: 25608

8pp. Stapled in the original wrappers, as issued. Very good. ***The Tasmanian Peace Trust 1993 Lecture - delivered in verse***
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Selected Poems.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1975

Seller ID: 31356

(A&R Poetry Classics.) First edition. 112pp. Soft covers. Very good. Owner's name. ISBN 0207132097
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Selected Poems.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1990

Seller ID: 23267

(A&R Modern Poets Series.) Further revised (third) edition, incorporating poems from Bone Scan (1990). The second edition had added poems from The Lion's Bride (1985). 216pp. Soft covers. Top corner snipped from half-title, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 020716682X
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Bone Scan.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1988

Seller ID: 18033

First edition. 56pp. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0207160449 ***The well known Tasmanian poet.
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An Australian Democrat : the life, work and consequences of Andrew Inglis Clark.

By: Haward, Marcus & James Warden (eds)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies: 1995

Seller ID: 4505

282pp. Soft covers (slightly curling); otherwise a very good clean copy. ***Papers presented to a 1991 conference - the first extensive study of a man belatedly acknowledged as one of the fathers of Australian federation. Clark was successively engineer, lawyer, radical and reformist politician, and judge. He ranged widely in the realms of mind and spirit, restlessly exploring political, legal, ethical and religious issues in many published and unpublished writings.
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Strabane of the Mulberry Hills : the story of a Tasmanian lake in 1841.

By: HAY, William.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, George Allen & Unwin: 1929

Seller ID: 6400

First edition. 414pp. Original cloth with the dustwrapper featuring a Beattie photograph of Lake St Clair. The front lower corner slightly bumped, the wrapper a trifle chipped at the extremities, otherwise a very good clean copy. With the publisher's small 4pp booklet 'Opinions of the Press on Strabane of the Mulberry Hills' [all positive you will be surprised to hear]. *** The story concerns the disappearance of the wife of Heylin Tamlash, the owner of the Tasmanian estate 'Strabane...', which is cleared up with the help of the bushranger Martin Cash; the malicious oddity of two vaguely arty ...
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Wonderstruck : treasuring Tasmania's caves and karst.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2015

Seller ID: 34314

Large 8vo. 178pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers with French flaps. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0994376154 ***An extremely thorough account of Tasmania's cave systems, their exploration, their role in tourism, and the ecological battles over their preservation.
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On the Ossie.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2017

Seller ID: 35925

4to. 278pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers with French flaps. A fine clean copy. ***Signed by the author. ISBN 0648106373 *** Tasmanian osmiridium and the fountain pen industry.
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Baron Bischoff : Philosopher Smith and the birth of Tasmanian mining.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: n.p., Author?: 2004

Seller ID: 19255

Small 4to. 210pp, well illustrated in b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy ISBN 0958583110 ***James 'Philosopher' Smith discovered the tin deposits at Mt Bischoff in 1871 - an event which reinvogorated the Tasmanian economy after a long depression and ushered in a mining boom.
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A Peopled Frontier : the European heritage of the Tarkine area.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Smithton (Tas), Circular Head Council: 2009

Seller ID: 36272

Edited by Simon Cubit. 4to. 168pp, 4 colour maps, b&w illustrations. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ***Inscribed by the author. ISBN 0958583153 ***Documents the considerable history of human activity (European only) in this region of north-west Tasmania which contains a large tract of temperate rainforest and is often described - erroneously, according to the author - as a wilderness. The debate about its future status continues...
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The Norfolk Plains : a history of Longford, Cressy, Perth and Bishopsbourne, Tasmania.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: [Longford, Tas], Northern Midlands Council: 2013

Seller ID: 36427

Oblong 4to. x, 245pp, well illustrated in colour and black & white. Pictorial papered boards. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646590146
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On the Road to Cradle : historical day walk of Moina, Middlesex and Black Bluff.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Canberra, Tiger Plain Books: 1994

Seller ID: 36448

42pp, illustrations, maps. Stapled in stiff pictorial wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646200313
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A Walk in the Wilderness : tackling Tasmania from Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair.

By: HEARNE, John M. & Rory T. Cornish (eds)

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Canberra, Tiger Plain Books: 1999

Seller ID: 31206

92pp, illustrations, maps. Soft covers. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 0958583102
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Thomas Francis Meagher : the making of an Irish American.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Dublin, Irish Academic Press: 2005

Seller ID: 21092

(The Irish Abroad.) Foreword by Roy Foster. 272pp, illus. Original cloth with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ISBN 0716528126 *** 'Meagher of the Sword' was one of the Young Irelanders transported to Van Diemen's Land, from where he escaped in early 1852 and made his way to America. He became the first commanding general of the famed Irish Brigade during the American Civil War and was post-war de-facto governor of Montana Territory until his mysterious death in 1867.
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Thomas Francis Meagher : the making of an Irish American.

By: HEARNE, John M. & Rory T. Cornish (eds)

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Dublin, Irish Academic Press: 2005

Seller ID: 21093

(The Irish Abroad.) Foreword by Roy Foster. 272pp, illustrated. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0716528134 *** 'Meagher of the Sword' was one of the Young Irelanders transported to Van Diemen's Land, from where he escaped in early 1852 and made his way to America. He became the first commanding general of the famed Irish Brigade during the American Civil War and was post-war de-facto governor of Montana Territory until his mysterious death in 1867.
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Enid Lyons : leading lady to a nation.

By: HENDERSON, Anne.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Pluto Press: 2008

Seller ID: 29431

356pp, b&w illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0980292492
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Veils and Tin Hats : Tasmanian nurses in the Second World War.

By: HENNING, Peter.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Exeter (Tas), Author: 2013

Seller ID: 31456

4to. 306pp, well illustrated. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0987603205
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Island and Otherland: Christopher Koch and his books.

By: HENRICKSEN, Noel.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Educare: 2003

Seller ID: 16878

356pp, b&w photographs, colour photograph and illus. Soft covers. Very good.
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Image for Historical Records of Australia. Series III: Despatches and papers relating to the settlement of the states. [Port Phillip 1803-04; Tasmania 1803-27, West Australia 1826-30; Northern Territory 1824-29.] Volumes 1-6.

Historical Records of Australia. Series III: Despatches and papers relating to the settlement of the states. [Port Phillip 1803-04; Tasmania 1803-27, West Australia 1826-30; Northern Territory 1824-29.] Volumes 1-6.

By: Historical Records of Australia : edited by Frederick Watson.

Price: $600.00

Publisher: Canberra, Commonwealth Parliamentary Library: 1921-1923

Seller ID: 15996

Six volumes in not-quite-uniform bindings. Five of the six are in the original blue half-leather bindings (with slightly differing shades), Vol 5 in a contemporary full navy blue cloth (not the modern re-binding). Vol One with the small bookplate of H.R. White, offsetting on endpapers, edges yellowed and a little spotted. Vol 3 with 'Rt Hon. A. Fisher P.C.' [Prime Minister in 1908–09, 1910–13 & 1914–15] stamped in gilt on the upper board. Extremities a little rubbed on most volumes, and the edges are somewhat yellowed but all volumes clean inside. A good to very good set. ***...
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Historical Records of Australia [III/3]. Series III. Despatches and papers relating to the settlement of the states. Volume III. Tasmania, January-December 1820.

By: Historical Records of Australia : edited by Frederick Watson.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Canberra, Commonwealth Parliamentary Library: 1922

Seller ID: 20286

xxiv, 1052pp. Original blue half-leather and cloth (a few slight marks on the latter), extremities a trifle rubbed. Edges a little yellowed, short gift inscription on preliminary blank. A good to very good clean copy. ***This volume includes the evidence presented to Commissioner Bigge (pp 215-508).
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Historical Records of Australia [III/4]. Series III. Despatches and papers relating to the settlement of the states. Volume IV. Tasmania, 1821 - December 1825.

By: Historical Records of Australia : edited by Frederick Watson.

Price: $120.00

Publisher: Canberra, Commonwealth Parliamentary Library: 1921

Seller ID: 20285

xx, 975pp. Original blue half-leather and cloth, the spine rubbbed. Edges yellowed. Presentation inscription on half-title from the editor, Frederick Watson, to Sir Walter Lee [Premier of Tasmania 1916-22], dated December 1921. A good to very good clean copy.
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Historical Records of Australia [III/9]. Resumed Series III. Despatches and Papers Relating to the History of Tasmania. Volume IX. Tasmania, January - December 1830.

By: Historical Records of Australia : edited by Peter Chapman.

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Melbourne University Press: 2006

Seller ID: 27497

1091pp, endpaper maps. Blue cloth-textured papered boards, a few minor marks, spine gilt (as issued, without dustwrapper). Inscribed by the editor to a colleague from the project. A very good clean copy ISBN 0522851886 ***Produced by working parties attached to the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, and the third of the resumed series relating to the colonial history of Van Diemen's Land. More volumes are in preparation. A major focus of 1830 was the Black Line - the military operations against the Aboriginal population.
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Historical Records of Australia [III/8]. Resumed Series III. Despatches and papers relating to the history of Tasmania. Vol. VIII. Tasmania, January - [December] 1829.

By: Historical Records of Australia : edited by Peter Chapman.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Melbourne University Press: 2003

Seller ID: 24338

500 copies only. cviii (Series Preface, Introduction, Precis of Despatches and Letters), 1379pp. (773pp documents, 777-1009 commentary, 1015-1334 appendices, index). Blue cloth-textured papered boards, spine gilt (as issued, without dustwrapper). The edges are a trifle soiled but very clean inside. Very good. ISBN 0522850464 ***Produced by working parties attached to the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, and the second of the resumed series relating to the colonial history of Van Diemen's Land. More volumes are in preparation.
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Fifty Years 1913-1963 : the history of the Hobart High School.

By: Hobart High School : edited by Neil Batt.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hobart, The School: 1963

Seller ID: 12247

Oblong 8vo. 96pp, illustrated with b&w photographs. Stable-bound with wrappers drawn on, a couple of trifling creases to the front cover; otherwise a very good clean copy. ***The school had just begun its transformation into a matriculation college.
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The Hobart Town Gazette : Volume XL, nos 2038-2094, 2 January - 25 December 1855.

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Hobart Town, James Barnard, Government Printer: 1855

Seller ID: 30934

Title page, 1390pp, including a 6pp index. Contemporary half leather with cloth-covered boards, extremities rubbed. Edges sprinkled. Penultimate leaf a little creased, otherwise a very good clean copy. ***Inscribed 'J. Barnard March 7/56' on title-page.
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The Hobart Town Gazette : Volume XLI, nos 2095-3059, 1 January - 30 December 1856 [in two parts].

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Hobart Town, James Barnard, Government Printer: 1856

Seller ID: 30976

Two volumes: January--June & July--December. 1660pp, with a title-page for each volume, 6pp index. Contemporary half leather with cloth-covered boards, extremities rubbed. Edges sprinkled. A very good clean copy. ***Includes, amongst the usual government notices (with much still pertaining to convicts), the Act establishing the electoral framework for the newly-formed Tasmanian Parliament, the electoral rolls for the various districts of both chambers, the notice announcing the formation of a new Executive Council on 1 November; and lists of citizens qualified for jury duty.
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The Hobart Town Gazette : Volume XLII, nos 3060-4021, 6 January - 29 December 1857.

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Hobart Town, James Barnard, Government Printer: 1857

Seller ID: 30977

4to. [ii], 1200, [ii], 1201-6pp, with 6pp index. Contemporary half leather with cloth-covered boards, extremities a little rubbed. Edges sprinkled. A very good clean copy. ***Includes a folding table of the data from the Census of the Island of Tasmania, 31 March 1857.
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The Hobart Town Gazette : Volume XXXIX, nos 1984-2037, 3 January - 26 December 1854.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Hobart Town, James Barnard, Government Printer: 1854

Seller ID: 30933

Title page, 1534pp, including a 7pp index. Contemporary half leather with cloth-covered boards, extremities rubbed, head of upper joint beginning to crack. Edges sprinkled. Long clean tear to one leaf (1521/22) neatly closed with clear archival tape, otherwise a very good clean copy. ***Inscribed 'Mr B' in pencil on a title-page [i.e. James Barnard].
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The Hobart Town Gazette and Southern Reporter. [1] Volumes I & II. May 11, 1816; June 1, 1816 to December 27, 1817. [2] Volumes III & IV. January 3, 1818 to December 25, 1819.