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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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Mona Vale Country Fair, 10th February 1973.

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: No publication details: [1973]

Seller ID: 33503

21x17cm. 8pp (including cover), printed on heavy paper and staple-bound. Cover illustration and one other (full-page) by Nairda Lyne. ***With a brief history of the house - one of the grandest in the Tasmanian Midlands - and its most famous visitors.
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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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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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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 Eastern Shore : a history of Clarence.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison.

Price: $35.00

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
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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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The Zinc Works : producing zinc at Risdon 1916-1991.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison.

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.
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Duck and Green Peas! Forever! Finding Utopia in Tasmania.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison.

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.
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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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Brighton and surrounds : a history of Bagdad, Bridgewater, Brighton, Broadmarsh, Dromedary, Elderslie, Mangalore, Old Beach, Pontville and Tea Tree.

By: ALEXANDER, Alison.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Gagebrook, Tasmania, Brighton Council: 2006

Seller ID: 36250

Large 4to. 394pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0646466259
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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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Locomotive Enginemen of Tasmania.

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
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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

Publisher's copy (one of five thus) of the special issue, signed by the author. Bound in blue half-leather and buckram, gilt crest on upper board, with matching slipcase. 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 catalogue for the concurrent exhibition of the artist's work at TMAG. ISBN 0908528132
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The World of Olegas Truchanas.

By: ANGUS, Max.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Hobart, OBM: nd

Seller ID: 23727

7th edition [impression]. Square 4to. 144pp, 44 colour plates, 13 other illustrations, including 2 maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0959821201 ***Truchanas was the leading wilderness photographer of his day and a fine bushman. He was drowned while canoeing in the Gordon River Gorge in January 1972, during the unsuccessful campaign to save Lake Pedder from inundation. The first edition of this book was published by a private committee of his friends, and there were a further seven impressions, by other publishers.
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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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A Pictorial History of the Railways and Tramways of Western Tasmania.

By: AUBREY, Ronald K.

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
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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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Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century : painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers, 1900-1985.

By: BACKHOUSE, Sue.

Price: $200.00

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 (but not the dustwrapper). ISBN 0731618378
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Tasmanian Artists of the Twentieth Century : painters, sculptors, printmakers and photographers, 1900-1985.

By: BACKHOUSE, Sue.

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Hobart, Pandani Press: 1988

Seller ID: 36124

Special issue: with an original etching, signed and numbered (61/150), 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 dustwrapper and black cloth-covered slipcase. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0731618378
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The Coal Resources of Tasmania : Geological Survey Bulletin 64.

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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Port Arthur, Tasmania.

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

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Kingston, Tasmania, Good Intent Enterprises: 1997

Seller ID: 35644

Special issue: #45 of 200 copies, signed by Richard Bennett (the limitation slip tipped to the front endpaper). 4to. 64pp. Cloth with dustwrapper, housed in a matching cloth-covered slipcase. A fine clean copy, with an additional gift inscription from Bennett on the half-title. 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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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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Explorers of Western Tasmania.

By: BINKS, C.J.

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Devonport (Tas), Taswegia: 1989

Seller ID: 4423

Reprint (slightly reduced format). 4to. 264pp, illustrated in colour and b&w, maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 073167300X
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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