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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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History of the Site of Bowen's Settlement Risdon Cove.

By: GLOVER, Margaret.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sandy Bay, Tas, National Parks and Wildlife Service: 1979

Seller ID: 19710

(NPWS Occasional Paper No 2.) Reprint. 4to. 32pp, sketch map. Cloth-backed stiff wrappers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0724602518
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Tasmanians Remember 1900-1969.

By: GOC, Nicola.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Gentrx: 1999

Seller ID: 7589

Tall 4to. 208pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy - signed by the author. ***An illustrated oral history : Family Life, School Days, Getting There, Leisure Time, Going to Town, Black Tuesday.
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Jews in Van Diemen's Land.

By: GORDON, Max.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Author: 1965

Seller ID: 27758

141pp, 16 b&w plates. Cloth with dustwrapper (spine dulled, extremities a little rubbed). Top edges lightly spotted, owner's details on front free endpaper. A good to very good clean copy.
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Trampled Wilderness : the history of South-West Tasmania.

By: GOWLLAND, Ralph and Kathleen.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Printed by C.L. Richmond (for the Author?): 1975

Seller ID: 4657

First edition. Small 4to. 160pp, black & white illustrations and maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. The cloth is faded along the spine and a previous covering has left small tape stains on the endpapers and blurb flaps, now in a new protective sleeve); otherwise a very good clean copy. Owner's name. ISBN 0959842012
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Trampled Wilderness : the history of South-West Tasmania.

By: GOWLLAND, Ralph and Kathleen.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Printed by C.L. Richmond [for the Author]: 1977

Seller ID: 13893

Second edition. Small 4to. 206pp, illustrations & maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ***Over 50 extra illustrations, and a new chapter on Adamsfield (a slightly abbreviated version of the author's book 'Adamsfield: the town that lived and died').
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K & D : centenary history of Kemp & Denning Limited 1902-2002.

By: GRAEME-EVANS, A.L. & A.G. Kemp.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasbook Publishers / Kemp & Denning: 2002

Seller ID: 28852

#368 of 600 copies, with presentation plate. 4to. 414pp, well illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (extremities a trifle rubbed, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0958733430 ***The well-known Hobart timber and hardware merchants. Most of the edition of 600 copies was distributed amongst the firm's employees.
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Against the Odds. Risbys : Tasmanian timber pioneers 1826-1995.

By: GRAEME-EVANS, Alex.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasbook Publ.: [1995]

Seller ID: 4981

4to. 422pp, illustrated. Soft covers; with slight creasing, otherwise a good to very good clean copy. ISBN 0949457884
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Guns Across the River: the Battle of the Windmill, 1838.

By: Graves, Donald E.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Prescott, Ontario, Friends of Windmill Point: 2001

Seller ID: 28028

Oblong 8vo. 264pp, illustrated in b&w. Soft covers. Very good. ISBN 1896941214 ***The 1838 ill-fated American attack on Prescott, Upper Canada, which resulted in the transportation of many of the rebels to Van Diemen's Land.
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Tasmanian Pastoral.

By: GRAVES, Kathleen.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1953

Seller ID: 6837

First edition. 144pp, frontis, 15 illustrations. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ***Author's account of life at her home, the 'Woodlands' estate in Tasmania's Meander valley.
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A Model Municipality : places of management, mentoring and medicine in Launceston.

By: GREEN, Anne.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Tasmania, Launceston City Council: 2007

Seller ID: 24820

[Stories in Stone: 3.] 4to. 248pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Owner's large bookplate inside front cover. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 0959609083 ***Examines the city's institutions and their buildings in the fields of administration, health & welfare, education and learning, religion and mentoring
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The Fortieth : a record of the 40th Battalion A.I.F.

By: GREEN, F.C.

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Perth, WA, [John Burridge Military Antiques: , 1980s?]

Seller ID: 5274

With a Foreword by John Monash. Facsimile reprint (with no publication details). 248pp, frontis portrait, 12 full-page maps at rear. Maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. A fine clean copy. ***First published in 1922 by the 40th Battalion Association in Hobart, 1922. The original edition is scarce - as indeed is this reprint.
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The Tasmanian Club, 1861-1961.

By: GREEN, Frank C.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, The Club: 1961

Seller ID: 5105

500 copies only. 8vo. viii, 94pp, 13 plates. Navy blue cloth, club crest gold-blocked on the upper board. A very good clean copy.
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The Murids and Small Dasyurids in Tasmania.

By: GREEN, R.H.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Launceston, Queen Victoria Museum: 1967-72.

Seller ID: 27942

Seven parts, in three issues of the Records of the Queen Victoria Museum: Parts 1 & 2 (#28, 1967); Parts 3 & 4 (#32, 1968), Parts 5 to 7 (#46, 1972). All issues stapled in the original wrappers, as issued. Very good.
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Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert.

By: GREENER, Leslie & Norman Laird.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Fuller's Bookshop: 1971

Seller ID: 4664

Large square 4to. 192pp, 47 b&w plates, line illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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The Thorough Business Man : memoirs of Walter Powell, merchant, Melbourne and London.

By: GREGORY, Benjamin.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Wesleyan Conference Office: 1879

Seller ID: 27668

Sixth edition. Small 8vo. viii, 382pp, tissue-protected frontispiece with facsimile signature. Original green cloth with black decoration and blind, lettering on cover and spine in gilt ( head, tail and edges of spine, and corners a little rubbed). Edges yellowed and a few spots on some pages, mostly on first and last few leaves; otherwise a very good clean copy. ***English-born Powell (1822-68) grew up in Tasmania and later worked for a Launceston merchant and auctioneer before moving to Melbourne in the mid 1840s where he became a successful businessman. The first chapter of his memoir deal...
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The Ever-Varying Flood : a guide to the Franklin River.

By: GRIFFITHS, Peter, and Bruce Baxter.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Prowling Tiger Press: 1997

Seller ID: 4630

66pp, illus, 6 maps. Spiral-bound, printed on waterproof paper.
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Tasmanian Tiger : a lesson to be learnt.

By: GUILER, Eric & Phillipe Godard (with the contribution of David Maguire).

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Perth, WA, Abrolhos Publishing: 1998

Seller ID: 7031

4to. 256pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Case-bound in brown vinyl with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0958579105 ***The almost-certainly extinct Thylacinus cynocephalus.
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Thylacine : the tragedy of the Tasmanian Tiger.

By: GUILER, Eric R.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Melbourne, OUP: 1985

Seller ID: 36391

First edition. 208pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine slightly sunned). A very good+ clean copy. ***Signed by the author. ISBN 0195546032 ***This was the first thorough study by an acknowledged authority on the almost-certainly extinct Tasmanian Tiger.
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Gone and Almost Forgotten : jetties in Southern Tasmania.

By: GUILER, Eric R.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Hobart, Author: 1998

Seller ID: 35947

468pp, illustrated with sketch maps. Soft covers. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 0646348043 ***Scarce: only 300 copies were printed.
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366 Days of Tasmania : a story for every day of the year.

By: GUNN, Thomas.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Launceston, Footprints in the Past: 2016

Seller ID: 35181

Special issue: only ten copies thus were produced, with only five made available for sale. These were numbered 6 to 10 and signed by the author. 8vo. 168pp, illustrated in b&w. Synthetic cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean (new) copy. ISBN 0995411603
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A Van Diemen's Land Settler : the letter of Samuel Guy, Van Diemen's Land 1823.

By: GUY, Samuel.

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Sydney, St Mark's Press: 1991

Seller ID: 35949

With an Introductory Note by Irene Schaffer. Illustrated by Roderick Shaw. #34 of 60 numbered copies signed by the publisher. Small 8vo. [x], ii, 20pp. Hand-set and printed on hand-made rag paper. Cloth-backed paste-papered boards with leather spine label and mylar protective wrapper. A fine clean copy. ***The seventh book of the press. Samuel Guy arrived in Hobart Town in November 1822 and settled at New Norfolk, where he received a grant of 800 acres. The letter is to his brother in Sussex, describing life in the colony and offering some advice to any intending emigrants.
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THE TASMANIAN AND NEW ZEALAND GROUPS.

By: HALL, Robert.

Price: $18.00

Seller ID: 4668

Reprinted, with orig. pagination [275-87], from The Emu, Vol. XIX, Part 4, April 1920. Orig. wrapps (Emu cover). Very good. ***Bird groups.
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Tasman's Landing Place.

By: HALLIGAN, G.H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 1926

Seller ID: 6724

RSTPP for 1925, pp 195-202, with map. Original wrappers, as issued. Very good. ***Also in this issue: 'Some Notes on a Tasmanian Aboriginal Skull' by H.H. Scott & R. McClinton; 'Notes on the currency of early Tasmania' by John Reynolds; and R.W Giblin on Charles O'Hara Booth - and much natural history.
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The Hamilton Literary Society : 120 years on, a continuing tradtion. The years 1990-2009.

By: Hamilton Literary Society:

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Hamilton Literary Society: 2009

Seller ID: 35075

Small 8vo 68pp, illustrated. Soft covers. ***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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Cider Gums and Currawongs : a history of lifestyle, people and places. The Lake Country of Tasmania to the 1950s.

By: HARDSTAFF, Gwen.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty Degrees South, for the author: 2010

Seller ID: 28650

New edition, revised and with an index. Large 8vo. 360pp, well illustrated in colour and black & white. Pictorial papered boards. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0980797160
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Image for The Voyage of the Caroline from England to Van Diemen's Land and Batavia in 1827-28. With chapters on the early history of Northern Tasmania, Java, Mauritius and St. Helena by Ida Lee.

The Voyage of the Caroline from England to Van Diemen's Land and Batavia in 1827-28. With chapters on the early history of Northern Tasmania, Java, Mauritius and St. Helena by Ida Lee.

By: HARE, Rosalie (edited by Ida Lee).

Price: $135.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd.: 1927

Seller ID: 36333

First edition. xiv, 308pp, 40 plates (8 folding). Original blue cloth; extremities a trifle rubbed, slight crinkle in the cloth towards the foot of the upper joint; otherwise a very good clean copy. *** Includes a substantial section (pp30-44, pp81-198) on north-western Tasmania and the early days of the Van Diemen's Land Company.
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Cleansing the Colony : transporting convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen's Land.

By: HARMAN, Kristyn.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Dunedin, NZ, Otago University Press: 2017

Seller ID: 35373

8vo. 248pp, colour and b&w plates, maps. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1988531063
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Tasmanian Passes, Checks & Club Tokens.

By: HARPER, Noel G.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Hobart, Jasneath Publ.: 1985

Seller ID: 4673

78pp. Soft covers. A little light spotting on the half-title. Very good. ISBN 0959011404
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One Hundred Islands : the flora of the Outer Furneaux.

By: HARRIS, Stephen, Alex Buchanan and Amy Connolly.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Dept. of Primary Industries, Water and Environment: 2001

Seller ID: 13928

Illustrated by Anna Stewart. 361pp, colour photographs and illustrations, maps. Cloth-backed illustrated papered boards.
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The National Trust in Tasmania.

By: HARRISON, J.N.D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Sydney, Cassell: 1980

Seller ID: 4675

Reprint. Photographs by Frank Bolt. Square 4to. 240pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0726937371
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The Economic Development of Van Diemen's Land 1820-1850.

By: HARTWELL, R.M.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1954

Seller ID: 4678

274pp, 2 maps, 18 tables. Cloth with dustwrapper. Edges a little spotted, owner's name on front paste-down. A very good clean copy.
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Tasmania : classic images.

By: HARVEY, Marcus & Graeme Clennett.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Hobart, Classic Image Photographs: 2006

Seller ID: 22153

4to. 88pp, 55 full-page plates in sepia. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0975738410 ***Historical images from many of the great Tasmanian photographers of the early 20th century, including J.W. Beattie, Stephen Spurling III, Fred Smithies, Frank Hurley and Michael Sharland.
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The Present Tense.

By: HARWOOD, Gwen : edited by Alison Hoddinott.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, Imprint: 1995

Seller ID: 18034

First edition. 135pp. Soft covers, page edges a little yellow, otherwise very good. ISBN 1875892281 ***A new collection of poetry and prose.
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Bone Scan.

By: HARWOOD, Gwen.

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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Freely They Stood Who Stood, and Fell Who Fell.

By: HARWOOD, Gwen.

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.

By: HARWOOD, Gwen.

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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Poems.

By: HARWOOD, Gwen.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Sydney, Angus & Robertson: 1963

Seller ID: 32998

First edition. 8vo. 100pp. Pictorial papered boards with dustwrapper (price-clipped, spine slightly dulled, a couple of small silverfish nibbles on the front). The boards a trifle bowed. A very good clean copy. Owner's name. ***Harwood's first book.
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Selected Poems.

By: HARWOOD, Gwen.

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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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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The Norfolk Plains : a history of Longford, Cressy, Perth and Bishopsbourne, Tasmania.

By: HAYGARTH, Nic.

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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The Wild Ride: revolutions that shaped Tasmanian black & white wilderness photography. From the sublime to the skyline.

By: HAYGARTH, Nic.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Launceston, National Trust of Australia (Tasmania): 2008

Seller ID: 30668

Small 4to. 148pp, well illustrated in b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0958517444
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Wonderstruck : treasuring Tasmania's caves and karst.

By: HAYGARTH, Nic.

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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Baron Bischoff : Philosopher Smith and the birth of Tasmanian mining.

By: HAYGARTH, Nic.

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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On the Ossie.

By: HAYGARTH, Nic.

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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A Peopled Frontier : the European heritage of the Tarkine area.

By: HAYGARTH, Nic.

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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Thomas Francis Meagher : the making of an Irish American.

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

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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Category: Tasmania