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Those were the days. Anecdotes collected by Retired Senior Volunteers Programme members.

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Tasmania, Department of Sport & Recreation: 1988?

Seller ID: 29112

4to. Duplicated typescript with stiff plastic binding. 82pp. ***The reminiscences of 12 elderly Tasmanians (Hobart and southern districts), mostly concerning the early decades of the 20th century.
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Hobart Town Courier. This Journal contains every Official Notice in the Hobart Town Gazette of this day. [Eight individual issues from 1833]

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: 1833

Seller ID: 32977

The issues are those of 11 & 25 January; 15 & 22 February; 27 September; 4 & 11 October 1833. ***OFFERED INDIVIDUALLY, the price is per issue***
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Image for General Prison Regulations made the 2nd day of July, 1866 by five justices of the peace in general sessions assembled at Launceston, for the Penal Establishment situate within the Police District of Launceston.

General Prison Regulations made the 2nd day of July, 1866 by five justices of the peace in general sessions assembled at Launceston, for the Penal Establishment situate within the Police District of Launceston.

By: N/A

Price: $285.00

Publisher: Hobart Town, James Barnard, Government Printer: 1866

Seller ID: 36074

In accordance with the Provisions of 8th Vict. No. 16. 12pp, sewn with titled wrappers drawn on. Slight vertical crease throughout, some foxing, mostly to later pages, two small ink spots at top corner of the text block on the last 6pp, not obscuring any text, nor the page numbers; otherwise a good+ clean copy. 'H. Bennett (?) hand-written at head of front cover. ***Ferguson 16779
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Aborigines in Tasmania : On Being Aboriginal (complete set of 7 booklets and 11 display photographs)

By: Aborigines:

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Tasmania, Education Department: 1984-85.

Seller ID: 36551

Heather Felton (series editor). 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) Worret...
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Port Arthur Sketchbook.

By: ADAM SMITH, Patsy.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Rigby: 1971

Seller ID: 11557

Drawings by Arthur Phillips. 64pp, 29 illus. Papered boards with pictorial dustwrapper. Very good. ***Signed by both author and illustrator. ISBN 0851791719
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Heart of Exile: Ireland 1848, and the seven patriots banished; their adventures, loneliness and loves in three continents as they search for refuge.

By: ADAM SMITH, Patsy.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Nelson: 1986

Seller ID: 6082

4to. 369pp, black & white photographs and illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0170061701 ***The Young Irelanders, transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
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There Was a Ship.

By: ADAM SMITH, Patsy.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Rigby: 1967

Seller ID: 19880

First edition. 220pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (slight surface rubbing, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. Copy of a press obituary for the author loosely inserted. ***With the Naracoopa on the Tasmanian coastal trade.
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Port Arthur Sketchbook.

By: ADAM SMITH, Patsy. Drawings by Arthur Phillips.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Rigby: 1974

Seller ID: 5060

64pp, 29 illustrations. Papered boards with dustwrapper (spine sunned and lightly chipped at the head). A good clean copy. ISBN 0851791719
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To Serve in a Distant Land : Bishop Francis Russell Nixon and Anna Maria Nixon, the Tasmanian years 1843–1863

By: ADKINS, Keith.

Price: $54.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 2020

Seller ID: 36047

Published in an edition of 500 copies. 8vo. xvi, 222pp; well illustrated in colour and b&w. Blue buckram with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 090852837X ***The Tasmanian years of the first Anglican Bishop, Francis Russell Nixon (1842-63), and his wife Anna Maria Woodcock. The study concerns not only the Bishop’s role as the colony’s leading churchman, but the couple’s personal stories, and especially their under-acknowledged contribution to colonial art. The book’s numerous illustrations include over forty of their own works, brought together for the first time. *...
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Reading in Colonial Tasmania : the early years of the Evandale Subscription Library.

By: ADKINS, Keith.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Ancora Press, Monash University: 2011

Seller ID: 28984

Large 8vo. 276pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Blue cloth with coloured dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0732624223 ***The Evandale Subscription Library was founded in 1847 by the Presbyterian Reverend Robert Russell. It was a practical expression of his faith and of the ideals of the Scottish Enlightenment, promoting the ideals of education, science, civic-mindedness and sobriety. The Library's manuscript catalogue of books and loans has survived, enabling the author to examine not only what books and periodicals were held in the collection but who it was that donated and/or borrowed...
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The Enigmatic Mr Strange. Creating a Past : the life and art of Frederick Strange c1807-1873.

By: ADKINS, Yvonne.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Launceston, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery: 2017

Seller ID: 35316

Oblong small 4to. 92pp, well illustrated in colour. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0975802631 ***Produced to accompany the first exhibition of the convict landscape and portrait painter's work.
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Repression, Reform & Resilience : a history of the Cascades Female Factory.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison (ed).

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Convict Women's Press: 2016

Seller ID: 34898

264pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0995359903
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Governors' Ladies: the wives and mistresses of Van Diemen's Land governors.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1987

Seller ID: 8051

First edition. 188pp, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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The O'Connors of Connorville : a great Australian story.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Fullers Bookshop: 2017

Seller ID: 35534

Large 8vo. 306pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers with French flaps. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0995381437
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A Heritage of Welfare and Caring : the EZ Community Council, 1918-1991.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, Pasminco Metals–EZ: 1991

Seller ID: 7798

194pp, illus in b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646070126 ***The welfare arm of the Electrolytic Zinc Company's works at Risdon, near Hobart.
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Tasmania's Convicts : how felons built a free society.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Crows Nest, NSW, Allen & Unwin: 2010

Seller ID: 28893

318pp, black & white photographs and illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Edges slightly yellowed, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 1742372058 From the dustwrapper: "Tasmania's convict ancestors, so long figures of shame to their descendants, are examined here in rich and unprecedented detail. In showing us what kinds of people the convicts really were, Alison Alexander dispels many myths. A landmark work" (Christopher Koch).
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Beneath the Mountain : a history of South Hobart.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison.

Price: $80.00

Publisher: South Hobart Progress Association: 2015

Seller ID: 34089

Large 4to. 356pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy.
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Clerk of the House: the reminiscences of Hugh Munro Hull, 1818-1882.

By: ANDEL, Lucille V.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Author: 1984

Seller ID: 4727

1000 numbered copies. 204pp, index, biographical appendix. Brown cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0959276106 ***Hull was Clerk of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and the author of kalendars, guides, statistical summaries on the colony.
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Simpkinson de Wesselow : landscape painter in Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District, 1844-1848.

By: ANGUS, Max

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1984

Seller ID: 4385

#561 of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author. Square 4to. 192pp, 61 full-page colour plates (one a folding panorama) and full illustrated catalogue of the artist's 217 known works (small b&w images). Blue cloth, gilt device on the upper board, with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528132
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A Salute to Watercolour.

By: ANGUS, Max.

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1996

Seller ID: 4384

1000 copies, signed by Max Angus. Square 4to. 132pp, 51 colour plates, pictorial endpapers. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528280 ***The first part is a survey of the medium of watercolour, from its origins in Europe, through its flowering in England in the 18th & 19th centuries, to its role in the topographical recording of Australian colonies. The second part (to some extent autobiographical, with many examples of the author's own work), discusses the medium in modern Australia.
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Simpkinson de Wesselow : landscape painter in Van Diemen's Land and the Port Phillip District, 1844-1848.

By: ANGUS, Max.

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1984

Seller ID: 36372

Special issue bound in blue half-leather and buckram, gilt crest on upper board, with matching slipcase; signed by the author. Thirty copies thus were produced, twenty-five of which were offered for sale (numbered I-XV), and five (A-E) were retained by the publisher for presentation purposes. Square 4to. 192pp, 61 full-page colour plates (one a folding panorama) plus full illustrated catalogue of the artist's 217 known works (small b&w images). The spine a little sunned (to a brownish hue, as often), otherwise a fine clean copy. Loosely inserted are an invitation to the book's launch and the c...
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Art in Australia, a quarterly magazine. Third series, no 30: Tasmanian number : and a new section on Industrial and Applied Art.

By: Art: Ure Smith, Sydney & Leon Gellert (eds).

Price: $85.00

Publisher: December,1929

Seller ID: 28760

[26]pp with 6 tipped-in coloured plates & 48 monochrome plates (paintings and photographs) on Tasmania; the Industrial and Applied Art section with 17 plates, 7 in colour. Stiff card covers with wrapper: the overlapping edges with some small breaks (as usual), small area of silverfishing to rear cover. Slight marks on the first (blank) page, otherwise internally very clean and crisp. A very good copy.
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Moss and Mist : living in Savage River.

By: Australian Resources 88

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Tasmania, Adult Education Dvision of TAFE: 1988

Seller ID: 30006

(Australian Studies - Understanding Australia: a 'We Are a Resource' local social history project.) 4to. 70pp, illustrated. Stapled in cloth-backed wrappers, as issued; now covered in contact plastic. A good clean copy. ISBN 0724616063
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A Research on the Eucalypts of Tasmania and their essential oils.

By: BAKER, R.T. & H.G. Smith

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer: 1912

Seller ID: 34638

Read before the Royal Society of Tasmania. Communicated by L. Rodway, Esq., Government Botanist, October 14, 1912. 8vo. 72pp, 4 plates (at rear). Stapled with grey printed wrappers drawn on, as issued; spine sunned and a little rubbed, tiny nick from fore-edge of the upper wrapper and a small (tea?) stain at its top corner (and, though diminishing, the first few leaves). Owner's details inside front cover. A good to very good clean copy.
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The English Dane : a life of Jorgen Jorgenson.

By: BAKEWELL, Sarah.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 2005

Seller ID: 22580

324pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A little light foxing on the text pages facing either end of the illustration section, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0701173408
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Resources of the Sea : a symposium arranged by the Royal Society of Tasmania at Bicheno, 2-4 November 1974.

By: BANKS. M.R. & T.G. Dix (eds).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Hobart, Royal Society of Tasmania: 1975

Seller ID: 35434

Small 4to. 120pp, maps, diagrams and illustrations, erratum slip loosely inserted. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Owner's name at head of front cover. ISBN 0959867910
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Exiled : the Port Arthur convict photographs.

By: BARNARD, Edwin.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Canberra, National Library of Australia: 2015

Seller ID: 28425

Square 4to. 224pp, well illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0642277095 ***The photographs of ageing convicts, first transported between 1820 and 1850, were taken in the 1870s. This study tells the stories of 65 individuals whose images are held in the National Library and the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston.
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Convict Tattoos : marked men and women of Australia.

By: BARNARD, Simon (written and illustrated by).

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Text: 2016

Seller ID: 35280

Small square 4to. 120pp, well illustrated in colour and duotone. Black cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 1925240398
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History of the Church of England in Tasmania.

By: BARRETT, W.R.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Hobart, Printed at "The Mercury" Press: 1942

Seller ID: 4400

8vo. 92pp, illustrated. Stiff cloth-backed papered card, cut flush. A very good clean copy.
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Out of the Blocks.

By: BARWICK, Bill; with Mike Bingham.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Tasmanian Communication & Marketing: nd [1995].

Seller ID: 36532

#106 of 300 copies (the numbering inscribed in calligraphy on verso of front free endpaper). 4to. 160pp (but see below), b&w photographs. Synthetic cloth with dustwrapper (small tear top corner of rear panel repaired with tape, on the outside, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy, with a special 'bonus'; the first 16pp have been repeated at the end of the book. ISBN 0646258974 ***The story of Tasmania's first Olympic athlete.
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Smile at your District Inspector... it will worry him sick! Ftrom high seas to counting stamps; the entertaining memoirs of a war-time sailor who became an Inspector of Post Offices.

By: BASHFIELD, Jim.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2011

Seller ID: 30930

168pp. Soft covers. Very good. Inscribed by the author. ISBN 0646535366
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Bass Strait Bibliography : a guide to the literature on Bass Strait covering scientific and non-scientific material.

By: Bass Strait: Stephen Murray Smith & John Thompson (General editors).

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Victorian Institute of Marine Sciences: April,1981

Seller ID: 36553

Small 4to. xiv, 272pp. Soft covers. Edges with a touch of pale foxing, otherwise a very good clean copy. ***Sections include: General & Regional aspects (including fiction); Social Sciences (including Aborigines); Biology & Ecology; Commercial Fisheries; Physical Environment; Engineering & Technology.
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The Convict Ships 1787-1868.

By: BATESON, Charles.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Glasgow, Brown, Son & Ferguson: 1985

Seller ID: 4408

Reprint of second (revised & best) edition. 8vo. 422pp, frontis and 13 plates. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0851741959
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Callaghan & Batman, Van Diemen's Land 1825.

By: Batman, John: Edited by E. F.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Sullivan's Cove: 1979

Seller ID: 25915

500 numbered copies. F'cap folio. 44pp, 3 illustrations (three documents, one a double-page map). Blue cloth with dustwrapper (some uneven fading, the laminate a little crinkled in places, as usual). A very good clean copy in a good wrapper. ***Documents concerning John Batman and Eliza Callaghan, who he was to marry in 1828, but particularly the police search of his Ben Lomond property in 1825 for Eliza, who was then an absconding felon.
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Deadly Winter : the life of Sir John Franklin.

By: BEARDSLEY, Martyn.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Chatham Publishing: 2002

Seller ID: 15014

272pp, b&w illustrations, map. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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Re-Discovering Tasmania : the North-West Coast.

By: BECKETT, Pat & Piet Maree.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Burnie (Tas.), The Advocate: 1955

Seller ID: 5992

184pp, well illustrated in b&w. Spiral bound with coloured stiff card covers. A very good clean copy. ***Pat Beckett became better known as Patsy Adam Smith.
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The World of John Boultbee : including an account of sealing in Australia and New Zealand.

By: BEGG, A. Charles & Neil C.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Christchurch NZ, Whitcoulls: 1979

Seller ID: 6527

First edition. 330pp, 133 illustrations (over 60 in colour), 30 figures/maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. Two slight tape marks from a previous covering on each free endpaper. Owner's name. A very good clean copy. ***Much on the Bass Strait seal fishery.
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Primal Places : Tasmania.

By: BELL, Chris.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Hobart, Laurel Press: 2002

Seller ID: 16504

Square 4to. 104pp. Black cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy.
ISBN 0958082502 ***Colour wilderness photography, over 60 images, with the photographer's text, based on field trip notes.
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Primal Places : Tasmania.

By: BELL, Chris.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hobart, Laurel Press: 2002

Seller ID: 35720

Square 4to. 104pp. Black cloth with dustwrapper. Slight bump top corner of lower board, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0958082502 ***Colour wilderness photography, over 60 images, with the photographer's text, based on field trip notes.
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Beyond the Reach : Cradle Mountain - Lake St. Clair National Park.

By: BELL, Chris.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Hobart, Laurel Press: 1990

Seller ID: 29194

Square 4to. 96pp. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646013238 ***Colour wilderness photography.
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Port Arthur, Tasmania.

By: BENNETT, Richard (photographs) & Lucy (text).

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Kingston (Tas), Good Intent Enterprises: 1997

Seller ID: 8701

4to. 64pp. Soft covers. Very good. ISBN 064631677X ***Colour photography.
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The Tasmanian Almanack for the Year of Our Lord 1826; being the second after leap year..

By: BENT, Andrew (compiled and printed by).

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1980

Seller ID: 7792

(Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions, no 4.) First published Hobart Town, 1826 (Ferguson 1091). #136 of 200 numbered copies. Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. A very good clean copy.
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Search for the Tasmanian Tiger.

By: BERESFORD, Quentin & Garry Bailey.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1981

Seller ID: 11669

Square 8vo. 54pp, black & white and colour illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 090852806X
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Tasmania's Forgotten Frontier : a history of exploration, exploitation and settlement around Tasmania's far north-east coast.

By: BESWICK, John.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2017

Seller ID: 36257

Large 8vo. 250pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0995408262
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Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the state of the Colony of New South Wales. / Report… on the Judicial Establishments of New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Land. / Report... on Agriculture and Trade in NSW.

By: Bigge Reports:

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia: 1966

Seller ID: 30292

(Australiana Facsimile Editions nos 68-70.) Facsimiles of House of Commons Papers 1822/448, 1823/33 & 1823/136. F'cap folio. [iv], 186pp; [iv], 90pp; [iv], 112pp - and each volume also includes a Bibliographical Note (2pp, verso blank), A Copy of the Instructions given by Earl Bathurst to Mr. Bigge, on his proceeding to New South Wales (Paper 532 of 1823, [iv], 8pp), an 18pp index. All in the publisher's cloth, the boards slightly bowed (inwardly). Edges and endpapers yellowed. Owner's details and a volumes number (1/2/3) at the head of each front free endpaper. Clean inside - good to v...
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Cascade : a taste of history.

By: Bingham, Mike.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Hobart, The Cascade Brewery Co.: 1992

Seller ID: 27494

4to. 216pp, illustrated in colour and black & white. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (the pink background slightly faded in places, as usual). A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646086758 ***A history of Australia's oldest continuous brewing enterprise.
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The Spirit Never Dies : a history of the Sandy Bay Football Club 1945-1997.

By: BINGHAM, Mike; W.T. Williams & Brian Lewis.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Sandy Bay Past Players, Officials and Supporters Association: 2005

Seller ID: 24867

#775 (this stamped in red at lower corner of the front cover) but print run not stated. 8vo. 430pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A very good to fine clean copy. Presentation inscriptions on half-title (signed by Barry Joyce) and final 'Autographs' page (Tony Martyn and two others).
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Pioneers of Tasmania's West Coast.

By: BINKS, C.J.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1988

Seller ID: 23845

190pp, 73 illustrations, 9 maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy.
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Explorers of Western Tasmania.

By: BINKS, C.J.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: Launceston, Mary Fisher Bookshop: 1980

Seller ID: 35598

First edition. Large 4to. 264pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0908291167
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Hills of the West Wind : reflections on the Tasmanian landscape.

By: BINKS, C.J.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Geelong, Barrallier Books: 2007

Seller ID: 22508

410pp, 3 maps (one coloured), 329 illustrations in colour and b&w, place ribbon. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0958583870 ***Surveys the processes by which the island was shaped and outlines the characteristic landforms and vegetation which distinguish its regions; and examines the relationship between people and the land.
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Category: Tasmania