Tasmania
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Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls - Convict Women In Van Diemens Land 1803 - 1829
by Phillip Tardif
American Citizens, British Slaves Yankee Political Prisoners In an Australian Prison Colony 1839-1850
by Cassandra and Hamish Maxwell-Stewart Pybus
Tasmania Books & Ephemera
Tasman's Insel an der Kuste von Tasmanien - Saulenbasalt
by [Tasmania; Australia]
Germany: Schreiber J.F., 1873. First printing. Print. Very good condition. Chromolithograph depicting basalt pillars on the coast of Tasmania. The image measures 26.2 x 36.2 cm on a sheet 31.6 x 41.2 cm. Central fold, slight dusting around the edges. Libraries Australia ID 774855.
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€140.92
Tasmania or Van Diemens Land by M. Flinders 1798-9. South Coast, Sheet VI
by Flinders, M. (Matthew)
London: British Admiralty Hydrographical Office, 1860. Maps. Map of Tasmania based on Matthew Flinder's chart. In 1798, Flinders and George Bass set out in the 'Norfolk' to explore the extent of the strait between the mainland and Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania]. By circumnavigating Van Diemen's Land, Flinders proved that it was a separate island. This Admiralty chart of Tasmania includes Hunter, Three Hummock Island and most of Barren Island, with insets of Sullivan Cove (Hobart Town) by Mr. I Welsh and...
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€1,879.00
![Girelle a dos Rose, Girelle a Queue Tachetee, Girelle a Baudrier, Girelle Bordee, Girelle a Dorsale Rayee. [Stipple engraving of fish from the South Pacific]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/575/437/822437575.0.b.1.jpg)
Girelle a dos Rose, Girelle a Queue Tachetee, Girelle a Baudrier, Girelle Bordee, Girelle a Dorsale Rayee. [Stipple engraving of fish from the South Pacific]
by [Dumont D'Urville] Bevalet pinx; Teillard sc
Paris: Remond, 1835. Exquisite stipple engraving of fish discovered on Dumont D'Urville's "Voyage de l'Astrolabe". The French voyages in this period benefited from the French expansive world view, that saw artists & scientists accompanying the sailors on French voyages of exploration, recording scientific detail and assembling natural history collections. Jules Dumont D'Urville visited Australia twice, 1826-29 & 1837-40. His account of the second voyage was published in 1842 (text volumes); 1846 (atlas)...
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€164.41
Picturesque Tasmania Letter Card, with five printed Tasmanian views
by [Tasmania]
Hobart: J. Walch & Sons, 1903. Very good condition. Five charming Tasmanian landscape b&w photographs including Wellington Falls, Mt. Wellington; Tasmanian Bush Scene; Fern Retreat Hut, Cascades; Russell Falls; and Fern Tree Bower (back cover) decorate this folding self mailing note. Stiff blue paper wraps with address panel at the front cover, a single stapled sheet of folded white paper for message, and photograph on the back. This message from a Scottish woman to her mother in Aberdeen (Mrs. Smith...
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€117.44
Flotsam & Jetsam.
by BUTTON, HENRY
Launceston, Tasmania, A. W. Birchall & Sons, N.D. (c. 1909).. 8vo; pp. xx, 479; frontispiece, 36 b/w illustrations, index; original blue cloth, title on front board in gilt; stain to front side edge of boards, bumped head and tail of spine and corners of boards, previous owner's bookplates on front endpaper, a good copy. Wonderful accounts Railways and of bushrangers including John Quigley holding up a stage coach, the explosion of Krakatoa and much more.
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€55.85
The History of Tasmania
by John West
Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The History of Tasmania.
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€71.96
Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert
by GREENER, Leslie and Norman LAIRD
Hobart: Fullers Bookshop, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Hobart, Fullers Bookshop, 1971 (first edition). Square quarto, viii, 192 pages with 109 diagrams, 14 illustrations (by Max Angus) and 47 plates. Papered boards; extremities bumped (with light associated creasing to the leaves); a very good copy with the dustwrapper a little sunned, creased, chipped and torn.
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€34.13
Lichens of Rainforest in Tasmania and South-eastern Australia
by KANTVILAS, G. and S.J. JARMAN
Canberra: Australian Biological Resources Study, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Canberra, Australian Biological Resources Study, 1999. Octavo, xii, 212 pages with over 140 colour illustrations from photographs by B.A. Fuhrer. Colour-pictorial card covers; spine a little canted; top corners (and a few adjacent leaves) slightly bumped; an excellent copy. Flora of Australia Supplementary Series Number 9.
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€24.82
Our Wild Flowers - 6 hand colored engravings
by Meredith, Louisa Anne (nee Twamley)
London: Charles Tilt, 1839. Six engravings of English flowers published in Our Wild Flowers. Two have black ink on upper left corner. 4 5/8 x 7 3/8". Meredith is a well-known botanical artist who illustrated this book before she migrated to Australia (1839) where she drew fascinating flora & insects with a beautifully composed Victorian sensibility. Meredith continued painting in Tasmania until she passed in 1895.
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€164.41
Wild Rivers. Franklin/ Denison/ Gordon
by DOMBROVSKIS, Peter and Bob BROWN
Sandy Bay: Peter Dombrovskis Pty Ltd, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included. Sandy Bay, Peter Dombrovskis Pty Ltd, 1983. Large quarto, 128 pages with drawings (by Peter Jackson) and numerous colour plates (after photographs by Peter Dombrovskis). Cloth; two small tape stains on each pastedown; an excellent copy with the dustwrapper slightly sunned on the spine and a little cockled on the front panel. A singular copy: the title page is signed by Peter Dombrovskis (1945-1996),...
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€589.48
Hobart, Tasmania Souvenir note book, advertising
by [Tasmania; Advertising; Jewelry] Taylor & Sharp
Hobart, 1928. Fine. Two white cards held together by a grommet with 2 sheets of notepaper between them. The cover has a map of Tasmania and Taylor & Sharp Jeweller's and Optician's Departments information, Elizabeth St., Hobart. Verso has "Make a note of the things you've seen and the places you've been to on your trip to Tasmania, and call on Taylor & Sharp for a souvenir for friends at home." 25/3677. 2 3/8 x 4 5/8" with rounded corners.
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€56.37
The Killing At Risdon Cove
by Refshauge, W. F
North Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing. 2016. MINT - a NEW copy. The discolouration on the cover is part of the design. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 154 pages. An analytical approach to the events at Tasmania's Risdon Cove on 3 May 1804 where between 3 to fifty Indigenous people were killed by British soldiers. . New. 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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€21.69
Tasmania
by Harvey, Norton
Adelaide: Rigby. 1971. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Colour photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. Unpaginated. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€15.51
Journal of Commodore Goodenough
by Goodenough, James Graham
London: Henry S. King, 1876. Second edition. Hardcover. Good + condition. The journal records the period of Goodenough's last command as Senior Officer on the Australian Station, 1873-75. The author's tour took him throughout the South Pacific, visiting Fiji, New South Wales & Tasmania. He unveiled the Cook monument in Sydney in 1876. 8vo, 369pp, 31pp ads dated October 1876, maps in text, 2 folding maps in rear pocket. In the original navy gilt decorative cloth bright with faint mark on back board,...
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€164.41
The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-Maritime Journal
by Martin, Robert M., edit
London: Fisher Son, 1841. Hardcover. Very good. Articles include one on Western Australia - The Dispersion System of Colonization, and Uniform Price of All Lands Examined, with great detail for emigration, giving land grants, prices per acre, outputs (p22-36) ; Australasian Islands (New Hebrides); The China Expedition - Extension of Commerce with China (Hong Kong); Present State of Sydney, NSW; two on aborigines of Western Australia by George Fletcher Moore, one on California & Oregon, one on Van...
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€258.36
Van Diemen's Land
by Boyce, James
Melbourne: Black Inc.. 2008. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket. DJ now protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. B/w maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 388 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€15.51
!["Darke of the Peaks" A Short History of Surveyor-Explorer John Charles Darke [1806-1844] in Van Diemans Land, Victoria and South Australia](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/853/273/1544273853.0.b.jpg)
"Darke of the Peaks" A Short History of Surveyor-Explorer John Charles Darke [1806-1844] in Van Diemans Land, Victoria and South Australia
by Gowlland, Ralph W. [Compiled & Edited by]
Published by Author. 1976. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - small mark to base of spine where previous owner applied his own cataloging sticker. Previous owner's details and cataloguing information to title page. Illustrated with Black & White Photographs and Maps. 63 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Softcover.
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€15.51
Women of Faith and Action. A history of the Catholic Women's League, Tasmania 1941-1986.
by Nuss, Anne Rushton
Hobart: Catholic Women's League. 1986. Octavo Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Gift inscription to front free endpaper (flyleaf). Illustrated with Colour and Black and White Photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 128 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€12.41
Tasmanian Mammals. A Field Guide
by Watts, Dave
Hobart: Tasmanian Conservation Trust. 2002. Octavo Size [approx 15x21cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with colour photographs. B/w maps. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 119 pages. . 3rd Printing. Softcover.
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€8.69
The History of Tasmania
by John West
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The History of Tasmania.
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€49.72
The Bauden Expedition and the Tasmanian Aborigines 1802
by PLOMLEY, N.J.B
Hobart: Blubber Head Press, 1983. Limited Edition. Near fine/near fine. Hardcover : pp. [x] 245 [3 blank] : limited edition of 1000 copies numbered and signed by the author, of which this is number 696 : frontispiece : 27 plates : 5 maps : pictorial endpapers : rust red cloth boards with gilt illustration to upper board : gilt to spine : illustrated jacket Very light smudge to top edge of block; tail of spine ever so gently pressed; jacket spine sunned and slightly creased; head and tail of jacket...
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€186.15
Guide to the Flowers and Plants of Tasmania
by Launceston Field Naturalists Club; Edited by Mary Cameron
Frenchs Forest, NSW: A.H & A.W. Reed. 1981. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with colour photographs and black & white drawings. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 120 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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€12.41
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque
by HANSEN, David
Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2003. First Edition. Near fine. Hardcover : pp. [9] 311 [312] : beautifully illustrated throughout : foreword by Robert S McKay : pictorial boards and endpapers. A handful of spots to block top edge; minor shelf-wear. Exhibition and book by David Hansen, Senior Curator of Art, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. This major exhibition toured around Australia and featured 100 paintings, watercolours, drawings and sketches of Regency Britain and colonial Tasmania...
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€27.92
Victorian and Edwardian Hobart from Old Photographs
by Sprod, Dan (Ed.)
Sydney & Auckland: John Ferguson, 1977 The dust jacket is wrapped in torn plastic. The inside cover page has a pen inscription. The first few front and back pages have light spotting. 204 captions b&w photographs. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Size G: 10"-11" Tall (254-279mm).
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€20.17
The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-Maritime Journal
by Martin, Robert M., edit
London: Fisher Son, 1841. Hardcover. Very good. Articles include one on Western Australia, with great detail for emigration, giving land grants, prices per acre, outputs (p22-36) ; two on aborigines of Western Australia by George Fletcher Moore, one on California & Oregon, one on Van Diemen's land, one on Washington DC & Baltimore, Madagascar, Jamaica, India & the China Company. Nd. (August 1841) Vol. 5 only. 8vo, 512pp, woodblock ills. in text. Half green calf & marbled board, raised bands, gilt title...
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€328.82
