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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'. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
By: FUHRER, Bruce & Richard Robinson.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Melbourne, CSIRO: 1992
Seller ID: 14192
96pp, illus in colour. Soft covers (spine a bit faded - to a brighter shade). A very good clean copy. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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... View more info
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. View more info
By: FYSH, Hudson.
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Hobart, Cat & Fiddle Press: 1973
Seller ID: 4635
160pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Maroon cloth with dustwrapper. Owner's bookplate on verso of front free endpaper. A very good clean copy. ***In addition to his role as a pioneer of 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. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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). View more info
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 View more info
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 very good+ clean set. View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
By: GOWLLAND, Kathleen, Ralph & Timothy.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Richmond & Sons: 1973
Seller ID: 36269
60pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Owner's name. ***The osmiridium mining settlement. View more info
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 View more info
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'). View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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... View more info
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. View more info
By: GROVE, James : edited by John Earnshaw.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1959
Seller ID: 7920
Offprint from THRA Papers and Proceedings, 8/1&2; 22pp, 2 illustrations. Stapled in plain titled wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. ***100 copies of this offprint were produced. Grove was with the expedition to found a settlement on Bass Strait, led by Lt-Gov. David Collins, which briefly encamped in Port Phillip Bay before moving to the Derwent where it established Hobart Town. His letters first appeared under the title Lost and Found, by 'Lagged', published in London in 1859 (of which Earnshaw could find only the copy in the British Museum). View more info
By: GUILER, Eric R.
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Melbourne, OUP: 1985
Seller ID: 5324
First edition. 208pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine a little sunned). Owner's blind stamp lower corner of the front free endpaper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0195546032 ***This was the first thorough study by an acknowledged authority on the almost-certainly extinct Tasmanian Tiger. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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 View more info
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 View more info
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 View more info
