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: $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: 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: HUDSPETH, Audrey & Lindy Scripps.
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Hobart, Hobart Ports Corporation: 2000
Seller ID: 28855
4to. 462pp, well illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ***Established on a 'guild' structure and free from government control, the Hobart Marine Board has developed the port since the mid-19th century entirely from its own resources. Its juridiction has traditionally covered much of the Tasmanian coastline beyond Hobart and included at various periods, signal stations, pilot stations and lighthouses. 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. 8vo. x, 178pp, frontis portrait, colour and b&w illustrations. Case-bound with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. 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 coll... 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: 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
By: MITCHENER, E.A. (Ted) : edited by Peter Boyer and Graeme Broxam.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Hobart, Maritime Museum of Tasmania: 2015
Seller ID: 21623
4to. 376pp, illustrated. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. *** The definitive history of the ships that ventured into Antarctic waters for exploration or commerce between 1699 and 1937. 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
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
Price: $85.00
Publisher: Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia: 1965
Seller ID: 5788
(Australiana Facsimile Editions, no 66.) First published 1801 (Ferguson 329). Large 4to. 36pp. Blue synthetic cloth (without a dustwrapper, as issued). A very good clean copy. The edition was 597 copies according to Peade. ***The three charts were separately published by Arrowsmith in 1800 and 1801. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Launceston Library: 2003
Seller ID: 27486
Published with support of the Friends of the Launceston Library. Oblong 4to. 216pp, illustrated, folding map at rear. A fine clean copy. ISBN 095793792X ***A collection of 98 short pieces on the history of the Tamar River (from the city of Launceston to Bass Strait), first published in the local press, and each accompanied by an illustration. View more info
By: Richardson, Peter (editor).
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Tasmania, Launceston Library: 2007
Seller ID: 23452
Published with support of the Friends of the Launceston Library. Oblong 4to. 224pp, well illustrated in black & white. Soft covers. A very good+ clean copy. ISBN 0957937938 View more info
