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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. View more info
![Image for Hobart Town Courier. This Journal contains every Official Notice in the Hobart Town Gazette of this day. [Eight individual issues from 1833]](/assets/images/product/32977.jpg "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*** View more info
By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Devonport, Printed by C.L. Richmond [for the Author]: 1986
Seller ID: 32300
Third (revised) edition. Small 4to. 222pp, illustrations & maps. Soft covers (somewhat rubbed). Owner's name. A good clean copy. ***This revised edition includes as Chapter 26 'Adamsfield: the town that lived and died'. Almost all of the text, the town plan, map of tracks in the area, and many photos from Gowlland's book of the same name is included, with some of the passages being expanded, and some new photos. Small sections on shops, the school and drinking have bee... View more info
By: ABEL, Gordon.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Brisbane, Author: [1996]
Seller ID: 5211
64pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. View more info
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 View more info
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 View more info
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. View more info
By: ALEXANDER, Alison & Alice Meredith Hodgson (eds).
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Hobart, Convict Women's Press: 2018
Seller ID: 35690
210pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0994385919 ***The second book in this series relating to the Cascades Female Factory (in South Hobart, Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania), with biographies of 29 female convicts who spent time there between 1829 and 1855. Other titles in the series concern the Ross, Launceston and George Town female factories. View more info
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 View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Hobart, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies: 2005
Seller ID: 35902
566pp, illustrated, coloured endpaper maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine quite sunned, extremities a little rubbed, now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ISBN 186295223X ***1073 entries, by 415 authors, and 18 thematic essays. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Hobart, Jane Franklin Hall: 2010
Seller ID: 29647
4to. 143pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Very slight small mark where owner's name label removed from front enpaper, otherwise fine. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Sydney, Allen & Unwin: 2013
Seller ID: 31417
First edition (the larger format). x, 294pp, 4pp colour and 8pp b&w illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 1742375693 *** Jane (nee Griffin), Lady Franklin, the wife of the Arctic explorer and Lieut-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (1837-43), Sir John Franklin. View more info
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. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Rosny Park, Tas, Clarence City Council: 2003
Seller ID: 30551
4to. 422pp, b&w and coloured photographs. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0959428135 View more info
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 View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Montpelier Press: 1999
Seller ID: 8032
A revised edition (with 'minor corrections and additions') of Governors' Ladies (1987). 252pp, b&w illustrations. Soft covers. Owner's name, and name label inside front cover. Reading crease on spine, otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 1876597011 ***The initial appearance of this study bore a sub-title more accurately reflecting the content: 'the wives and mistresses of Van Diemen's Land governors'. These were: Martha Hayes; Maria Proctor, Ann Yates, Hannah Power & M... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Montpelier Press: 1999
Seller ID: 21532
Second edition (with 'minor corrections and additions'). 252pp, b&w illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 1876597011 ***First published in 1987 as 'Governors' Ladies' with a sub-title more accurately reflecting the content: 'the wives and mistresses of Van Diemen's Land governors'. These were: Martha Hayes; Maria Proctor, Ann Yates, Hannah Power & Margaret Eddington; Maria Lord; Mrs Murray; Mary Geils; Margaret Davey; 'Mrs Sorell' [i.e. Mrs Kent]; Eliz... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Pasminco Metals - EZ: 1992
Seller ID: 33214
Small 4to. 360pp, illustrated in b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Hobart, Fullers Bookshop: 2018
Seller ID: 35912
4to, 202pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0648218058 *** Tells the stories of Aborigines, settlers on the land and other immigrants, political activists, modern-day commune dwellers and others who have sought utopias of different shades in various parts of Tasmania. View more info
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. View more info
By: ANCHEN, Nick.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Sierra Publishing: 2016
Seller ID: 35929
Oblong 4to. 184pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Pictorial papered boards. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0992538831 View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Author: 1984
Seller ID: 4727
1000 numbered copies, signed by the author. 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. View more info
By: ANDREW, Wendy.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tranmere - Clarence Plains Land & Coastcare: 2008
Seller ID: 24817
Large 8vo. 222pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0646489658 View more info
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 View more info
By: ANGUS, Max
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 1984
Seller ID: 22908
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. Minor misfolding of the panorama; otherwise a very good clean copy. ISBN 0908528132 View more info
By: ANGUS, Max.
Price: $200.00
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), discu... View more info
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Launceston, [2009/2016]
Seller ID: 31410
4to. viii, 436pp, illustrated, map, plans, portraits. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 187626151X *** First produced in small print run, primarily for the family, and reissued in 2016 in another small print run. View more info
Price: $70.00
Publisher: Launceston, The Editor: [2015]
Seller ID: 34354
4to. vii, 8-722pp, includes bibliographical references and index. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0646937227 ***During the 1880s, freelance journalist Theophilus Paul Howard Jones travelled extensively throughout Tasmania, penning over 100 articles for the local newspapers of the time as "Our Special Correspondent", under the heading "Through Tasmania". These articles are here transcribed in full, and have notes and commentary by the editor. View more info
By: Art:
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Sydney, The Fine Arts Press: 1985
Seller ID: 27358
[60]pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper (spine a little sunned). A very good clean copy. ***Comprises a reprint of pp 473-532 of Art and Australia, volume 22, no 4; with articles on the collections in the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, the State Library of Tasmania (special collections) and Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery; contemporary landscape art; John Skinner Prout; Benjamin Duterrau; Jack Carington Smith; George Dav... View more info
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. View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Sydney, Allen & Unwin: 2004
Seller ID: 18701
#176 of the special issue of 650 copies. Case-bound in linen, title blind-stamped on upper board, with matching slipcase. Large square 4to. 154pp, lavishly illustrated in colour. The book in fine clean condition, the rear panel of the slipcase has a few small holes (nibbled?) in the cloth. ISBN 1741143543 ***The large temperate rainforest in north-west Tasmania; the subject of much environmental controversy. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, OBM: [1975]
Seller ID: 12935
4to. 52pp, b&w illustrations. Stapled in pictorial stiff wrappers, as issued. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0959903410 View more info
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 View more info
By: BACKHOUSE, Sue.
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Hobart, Pandani Press: 1988
Seller ID: 23771
Special issue: with an original etching, signed and numbered (112/150), by Hobart artist George Davis bound in before the title page. 4to. 244pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Morocco-grained synthetic cloth, with the black cloth-covered slipcase. ISBN 0731618378 View more info
By: BACON, C.A.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Department of Resources and Energy: 1991
Seller ID: 35456
4to. 170pp, maps, diagrams and illustrations; 2 folding maps and 4 foldimng cross-sections in rear pocket. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0724619879 View more info
By: BAILEY, Col.
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Sydney, Harper Collins: 2001
Seller ID: 12059
Second impression. Oblong 8vo. 164pp, illustrated. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0732269253 ***The author, a 'tiger-hunter', wrote a column for a local newspaper featuring yarns and stories about the Thylacine - mysterious sightings, interviews with old trappers etc. etc. View more info
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. View more info
By: BANKS. M.R. & J.B. Kirkpatrick (eds).
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Royal Society of Tasmania: 1977
Seller ID: 35131
The proceedings of a symposium organised by the Royal Society of Tasmania, November 1976. Small 4to. 200pp, maps, diagrams and illustrations. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. Owner's name. ISBN 0959867929 View more info
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 View more info
By: BARKER, Gary.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Murrumbateman NSW, Author: 2009
Seller ID: 26656
4to. 144pp, illustrated, map. Soft covers. This is an unused (new) copy, but there is a slight indentation in the front cover, near the top edge. ISBN 0646515616 ***The civil engineering firm Lunnicks was established in the UK in 1946, and in 1951 moved - along with many of their employees and their families - to Tasmania's north-west coast. Most of these immigrants still live in Tasmania. View more info
By: BARNARD, Edwin.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Canberra, National Library of Australia: 2015
Seller ID: 28425
Reprint. Square 4to. 224pp, well illustrated. Soft covers. A fine 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. View more info
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. Owner's name. View more info
By: BASHFIELD, Jim.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2011
Seller ID: 30930
168pp. Soft covers. Very good. Inscribed by the author. ISBN 0646535366 View more info
By: Bass Strait:
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Royal Society of Victoria: 1973
Seller ID: 19265
Offprint of RSV Proceedings, Volume 85, Part 2, 27 May 1973; vi, pp73-302, maps, plates 5-28 & text illustrations. Original titled wrappers (extremities a little rubbed). There is a slight bump to the top corners throughout, otherwise a good+ clean copy. ***The symposium, conducted by the Royal Societies of Victoria and Tasmania, was held in Melbourne on 14 September 1972. Twelve papers were presented - on history, geology, biology and natural resources (primarily fisher... View more info
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. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bulli, NSW, Austrail Publications: [1971]
Seller ID: 4411
64pp, illustrated. Stapled in wrappers, slight surface rubbing, owner's name at head of front cover; otherwise a very good clean copy. ***An account of Australia's first railway, powered by convicts. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
