By: WEBSTER, E.H. & L. Norman.
Price: $285.00
Publisher: Hobart, J. Walch & Sons (printed by): 1936
Seller ID: 20463
Issued under the auspices of the Government of Tasmania, the Hobart Marine Board, and the Hobart City Council. 256pp, well illustrated, folding panorama (2 views) at rear. Original blue reptillian cloth, title printed on spine, coloured illustration laid onto the upper board, as issued (trifling mark to lower corner). Some foxing on the endpapers, otherwise a very good+ clean copy. View more info
By: PATESHALL, Nicholas (edited with an Introduction by Marjorie Tipping).
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press: 1980
Seller ID: 5955
First edition. 94pp, frontis vignette, 2 illus. Decorated papered boards with dustwrapper. Very good. Signed by the editor, on the title-page. ***Pateshall was 3rd lieutenant on the convict transport Calcutta, which was part of David Collins' expedition to found a colony on the shores of Bass Strait - both Victoria and Tasmania's 'first fleet'. View more info
By: PATESHALL, Nicholas (edited with an Introduction by Marjorie Tipping).
Price: $110.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Queensberry Hill Press: 1980
Seller ID: 35977
First edition : de luxe issue. #30 of 115 copies, signed by the editor. 94pp, frontis vignette, 2 illus. Half dark blue morocco, gilt raised bands and rules, sky blue cloth. A fine clean copy. View more info
By: PHILP, J.E. (Edited by R.A. Herr with E.A. Rood).
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association: 1978
Seller ID: 4949
An edition of 500 copies. 208pp, frontis portrait, map, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ***Philp was a Tasmanian shipping clerk who served on a small trading vessel servicing the coconut plantation industry - 'the humour of life aboard ship with a native crew and the tragedy of murder and cannibalism ashore are faithfully and graphically recorded. View more info
By: BROXAM, Graeme
Price: $38.00
Publisher: Canberra, Navarine Publ.: 1992
Seller ID: 17959
#888 of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author - and with his additional inscription. 62pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff pictorial wrappers, as issued. Very good. ISBN 0646113291 View more info
By: BROXAM, Graeme
Price: $38.00
Publisher: Canberra, Navarine Publ.: 1992
Seller ID: 4469
1000 numbered copies, signed by the author. 62pp, illustrated. Stapled in stiff illustrated wrappers, as issued. Very good. ISBN 0646113291 View more info
By: PINK, Kerry.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Burnie (Tasmania), Burnie Port Authority: 1995
Seller ID: 28810
xii, 146pp, well illustrated in colour and b&w. Original cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. Fine. ISBN 0724641831 ***Continues on from Peter Mercer's Gateway to Progress: centenary history of the Marine Board of Burnie (1969). View more info
By: ROSS, Captain Sir James Clark.
Price: $5,000.00
Publisher: London, John Murray: 1847
Seller ID: 34697
With plates, maps and woodcuts. Two volumes. 8vo. [I] liv, 366pp (and chapter half-title leaves not included in pagination, 7 with woodcut vignettes), frontis and 4 other lithographic plates (one folding), 6 maps (two folding). [II] [v]-xii (but complete), 448pp (and chapter half-titles as above, 10 with vignettes), frontis and 2 other lithographic plates, 2 maps (one large folding), 2 text illustrations (one not listed); 16pp publisher's adverts (A List of Works of General Literature dated January 1847). Includes appendices on the geology of Tasmania, NZ and Antarctica by Robert M'Cormick, su... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Papers & Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 1896
Seller ID: 12648
This is a double issue of the RST's Papers & Proceedings for 1894-95: [xvi], xxxvii, 66pp (for 1894); (vi), 120, 6, [6]pp (for 1895). Walker's Tasman article comprises pp[vi], 1-56 (3 folding maps) of the 1895 section; and the Norfolk Islander article is pp1-26 of the 1894 section. Original wrappers, spine slightly soiled and with a couple of tiny chips at head and tail. The large folding map with Mault's paper has its outer edge a trifle worn due to a misfold. Clean inside, a very good copy. ***Walker's essays were later issued in the memorial volume Early Tasmania, published by the RST in 19... View more info
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Melbourne, The Colony Press: 1983
Seller ID: 31869
Edited, with an introduction and notes, by John Currey. First edition. #90 of 185 copies. 76pp, 2 folding illustrations (sketched view and map of the settlement, both by G.P. Harris), 2 tipped-in plates, 2 other illustrations. Half leather and marbled paper boards, place ribbon. Fine. View more info
By: DUMONT D'URVILLE, J.S.C. (edited and translated by Helen Rosenman).
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1987
Seller ID: 5237
First edition. Two volumes. 634pp, 56 plates, text illustrations and maps. Canvas cloth boards with spine labels, with the slipcase. A very good clean set. *** The first comprehensive translation of the official records of D'Urville's two expeditions to the south seas, Australia and Antarctica. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Hobart, Tasmanian Historical Research Association Papers & Proceedings: March,1983
Seller ID: 10846
in Vol 30/1, pp 7-19. Stapled in wrappers, as issued. Also in this issue: 'Tasmanian Members of Parliament 1888 and 1938', by Scott Bennett (pp 20-32). ***From Chamberlain's well-regarded but unpublished thesis on the Tasmanian whaling industry. View more info
By: ROE, Michael.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 2006
Seller ID: 20723
750 copies; x, 294pp, coloured frontis, b&w illus. Cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. Fine (new). ISBN 0908528329 ***On 12 April 1835 the convict transport George the Third, with a cargo of over 200 prisoners, entered D’Entrecasteaux Channel in Van Diemen’s Land after a four-month voyage from England. That night it struck a submerged rock and became a total wreck. The death toll was 133, all but six of whom were convicts. Almost half the convicts who died were in hospital suffering scurvy, and had little chance of escape from the rapid flooding of the ship’s lower reache... View more info
By: ROE, Michael.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 2006
Seller ID: 24759
750 copies; x, 294pp, coloured frontis, b&w illus. Cloth with pictorial dustwrapper. A second-hand copy in very good, clean condition. ISBN 0908528329 ***On 12 April 1835 wreck of the convict transport George the Third, with loss of 133 persons, all but six of whom were convicts. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, Author: 1986
Seller ID: 31932
80pp, b&w photographs, map. Soft covers. A fine clean copy. ***Inscribed by the author. ISBN 0731687779 View more info
By: KERR, Garry J.
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Blackwood, SA, Lynton Publ.: 1974
Seller ID: 5393
144pp, illustrated, pictorial endpapers. Laminated pictorial cloth (as issued, without dustwrapper). A very good clean copy. Owner's name. View more info
By: COX, George W.
Price: $165.00
Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1986
Seller ID: 31814
Deluxe issue: #19 of 50 copies thus, signed by the author. Large 8vo. 372pp, well illustrated. Half blue morocco and contrasting cloth, gilt device on the upper board, owner's initials in gilt lower corner (a presentation copy?). The book won a PICA printing award in 1986 and a slip indicating this is tipped in as a frontis. A fine clean copy. 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 fisheries, oil and gas). These (and two others relating to the Strait) appear in this volume - including the bibliography of Bass S... View more info
By: BONNEMAINS, Jacqueline; Elliot Forsyth & Bernard Smith (eds).
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 1988
Seller ID: 36110
Folio. 348pp, profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. With bibliography and general & scientific indices. Blue cloth, gilt device on upper board, blind rules; with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ***Signed by Jacqueline Bonnemains. ISBN 019554787X View more info
By: HOWARD, John.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Northallerton, North Yorkshire County Record Office: 1996
Seller ID: 12419
Offprint from the NYCRO Review of 1996 (Publication 59). 4to. 52pp, illus, maps. Wrappers with clear cover. A very good clean copy. ***The Gilmore, her voyage and master, Captain Maw, are described in detail, and a chapter is devoted to the convicts on board. Compiled from the documents filed by Maw, now part of the Barry Papers in the County Record Office. View more info
By: BOWDEN, K.M.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1964
Seller ID: 19717
126pp, 8 black & white illustrations, 3 maps. Navy blue cloth with dustwrapper. Slight offsetting on endpapers (as often). A very good clean copy. View more info
By: Robinson, James William (edited by Michael Nash).
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Hobart, Blubber Head Press: 2009
Seller ID: 26088
A limited edition of 500 numbered copies. 240x165mm. x, 178pp, frontis portrait, colour and b&w illustrations. Case-bound with dustwrapper. Fine (new). ISBN 0908528345 ***Written in retirement in 1904, Robinson's ‘tough account of a rough life’ has never before been published. The Captain worked mainly in the pelagic whaling industry out of Hobart, but also carried a variety of cargoes to all the Australasian colonies, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, and to gold-rush California. He undertook the only Australian sealing voyage to subantarctic Heard Island, and collected gua... View more info
By: DUYKER, Edward.
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Miegunyah Press (MUP): 2003
Seller ID: 16194
383pp, b&w illustrations, maps. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***Signed by the author (in Hobart, April 2003). ISBN 0522850103 View more info
By: DUYKER, Edward.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Miegunyah Press (MUP): 2003
Seller ID: 28674
383pp, b&w illustrations, maps. Soft covers. Gift inscription on the imprint page. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0522851606 View more info
By: WILSON, Andrew (photography); text by Finegan Kruckemeyer.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Hobart, Everything Everything & Fullers Publishing: 2016
Seller ID: 35932
Large square 4to. 304pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and duotone. Papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0992303680 *** Photographic documentation of Tasmania's beautiful and dramatic coastline. View more info
By: LEE, Ida.
Price: $200.00
Publisher: London, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1912
Seller ID: 10299
First edition. 340pp, frontis portrait (photogravure, tissue guard), 10 maps (one folding), 23 plates, errata slip. Original cloth, slightly chipped at head of spine, front joint neatly repaired, binding solid, now protected by mylar wrapper. Very clean inside. A good to very good copy. View more info
By: PISIER, Georges.
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Noumea, La Societe d'Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Caledonie: 1976
Seller ID: 33069
(Publications de la Societe d'Etudes Historiques de la Nouvelle-Caledonie, no 13.) 4to. 148pp, illustrations, 2 folding maps. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. View more info
By: CURREY, John.
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Miegunyah Press (MUP): 2000
Seller ID: 11520
First edition. 1250 copies. xiv, 390pp, frontis, 4 colour plates, 12 b&w illustrations. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0522849261 ***The first substantial biography of the Deputy Judge-Advocate of the first settlement in New South Wales - and the author of the most detailed account of the infant colony - who was later the founding Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land. 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: KELLY, James.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Royal Society of Tasmania: 1920
Seller ID: 4763
Offprint, issued separately, of the Society's Papers and Proceedings, 1920, pp.160-81. Stapled in titled wrappers, as issued. Wrappers and first/last pages a little browned, owner's name in pencil on the front. A very good clean copy. ***Kelly's circumnavigation of Tasmania between 12 December 1815 and 30 January 1816. View more info
By: LAMBERT, Andrew.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 2009
Seller ID: 27059
First edition. 428pp, colour illustrations. Papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0571231608 ***Chapters 6 & 7 deal with the Franklins in Van Diemen's Land. 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: LEVY, M.C.I.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Georgian House: 1953
Seller ID: 23489
First edition. 412pp, frontis portrait, 28 illus. Cloth with dustwrapper (extremities rubbed, some chipping at the corners, now in protective sleeve). Top edges tinted blue, the others a little yellowed. Owner's name, ink stamp of the Maritime Museum of Tasmnia, and its de-accession stamp, on front endpaper. A good clean copy. View more info
By: SMYTHE, Suzanne.
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing [for the author]: 2015
Seller ID: 34783
4to. 266pp, illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. Fine (new). ISBN 0994376162 View more info
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Hobart, OBM: 1978
Seller ID: 4909
156pp, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper. A previous covering has left three light tape stains on each blurb flap (now in protective sleeve). A very good clean copy. ***Prepared for publication by the author's son from an unfinished manuscript. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Hobart, OBM: 1978
Seller ID: 30940
First edition. 156pp, illustrated. Cloth with dustwrapper (extremities rubbed, now in protective sleeve). A few light tape stains on the endpapers, otherwise a good+ clean copy. ***Prepared for publication by the author's son from an unfinished manuscript. View more info
By: O'MAY, Harry
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Hobart, Government Printer: 1973
Seller ID: 24478
Second impression. 114, iv & 32pp, plus 20pp b&w photographs, folding map of Derwent Estuary. Red cloth with dustwrapper (surface rubbing). A very good clean copy in a good wrapper. Owner's name. ***Two titles in one volume, each with title-page and index. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2001
Seller ID: 12082
318pp, b&w photographs, ship plan and folding chart at rear. Laminated soft covers. A very good clean copy, inscribed by the author. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Hobart, Author: 2001
Seller ID: 32901
318pp, b&w photographs, ship plan and folding chart at rear. Laminated soft covers. A very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Canberra, Roebuck: 1971
Seller ID: 33064
(Roebuck Series, no 3.) 56pp, 7 black & white plates, map and pictorial endpapers. Cloth with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0950085812 ***Translation of Chaps XXII & XXIII of Francois Peron's 'Voyage of discovery to the southern lands...' - the Baudin expedition. View more info
By: HORNER, Frank.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Melbourne, MUP: 1996
Seller ID: 4566
318pp, 10 plates, 11 maps, 2 ship plans. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0522847587 View more info
By: MacKNIGHT, C.C.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Launceston, Historical Survey of Northern Tasmania (Karuda Press): 1998
Seller ID: 5996
(HSNT no 3.) Small 8vo. 114pp, 10 charts & illustrations. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***The reports of Flinders & Bass, Freycinet & Faure, Collins, Clarke & Brown, and Paterson - between 1798 and 1804. View more info
By: HUNT, Susan; Martin Terry & Nicholas Thomas.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales: 2002
Seller ID: 15614
Large 4to. 144pp, lavishly illustrated in colour and b&w. Soft covers. A very good clean copy. ISBN 1876991003 View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Cambridge (Tas.), Shadrach P/L: 1988
Seller ID: 8378
Large 4to. 186pp, well illustrated & over 90 charts. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. With 'Supplementary Anchorage Charts' (single-page) loosely inserted. ISBN 0731633318 View more info
By: RISBY, Mark.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Hobart, Forty South Publishing: 2013
Seller ID: 31542
500 numbered and signed copies. Square 4to. 112pp, colour reproductions throughout. Pictorial papered boards. Fine (new). ISBN 0987589709 *** The eleven signal charts produced by the untrained Murphy in the 1840s and 1850s represent some of the most significant historical maritime art relating to Tasmania. They contain the only known drawings of the merchant ships' VDL colonial ensign and the entire collection of individual merchant ships' identification flags flown in Hobart Town. The book shows in fine detail the 250 flags and 300 telegraphic semaphore signals and their decodes. View more info
By: DIXON, James.
Price: $165.00
Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1984
Seller ID: 5327
(Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions no 7.) First published Edinburgh, 1822 (Ferguson 858). #70 of 200 numbered copies (175 thus). Small 8vo. [32], 148, 4 (adverts), [6]pp. Half black kangaroo and marbled boards. A fine clean copy. View more info
By: DIXON, James.
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1984
Seller ID: 36010
(Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions no 7.) First published Edinburgh, 1822 (Ferguson 858). #19 of 25 copies thus, from a total print-run of 200. Deluxe issue in full black kangaroo, gilt and blind decorations, raised bands, marbled endpapers; with the original glassine dustwrapper. Small 8vo. [32], 148, 4 (adverts), [6]pp. A fine clean copy. View more info
By: DIXON, James.
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Hobart, Melanie Publications: 1984
Seller ID: 35300
(Tasmaniana Facsimile Editions no 7.) First published Edinburgh, 1822 (Ferguson 858.) #7 of 25 copies thus, from a total print-run of 200. Deluxe issue in full black kangaroo, gilt and blind decorations, raised bands, marbled endpapers. Small 8vo. [32], 148, 4 (adverts), [6]pp. There are a few slight indentations in the leather on the upper board, otherwise a very good to fine clean copy. A short handwritten note from the publisher, Peter Benson Walker, to the purchaser is loosely inserted. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Dubbo, Review Publications: 1979
Seller ID: 19174
With an Introduction by George Mackaness. Australian Historical Monographs, reprint series. 58pp, illustrations, 3 charts (2 folding). Stapled in stiff wrappers. A very good clean copy. View more info
Price: $110.00
Publisher: Sydney, D.S. Ford, Printers [for the editor]: 1946
Seller ID: 8074
With an Introduction by George Mackaness. (Australian Historical Monographs, No. XIV.) #8 of 90 copies for sale (and a further 10 for presentation), all signed by the editor. 60pp, 7 illustrations, 3 charts (2 folding). As issued, stapled in stiff wrappers (extremities slightly rubbed). A very good clean copy. View more info
