Tasmania

  • Early houses of northern Tasmania

    # 34661

    ROBERTSON, E. Graeme and CRAIG, Edith N.

    Early houses of northern Tasmania

    Melbourne: Georgian House, 1966. Abridged edition. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, price clipped, pp. vii; 323, illustrated. A very good copy of a scarce reference.  

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  • Tiger-Wolf & wombat

    # 25162

    Anon.

    Tiger-Wolf & wombat

    Also titled lower centre : Australia (Van Diemen’s Land). Lithograph printed in colour, 173 x 260 mm (image), plate number XXIV upper right, very pale foxing, else fine. Originally published in: Wilde Thiere aller Zonen. Ihre Gewohnheiten und Lebensweise, ihr Nutzen und Schaden in 60 nach der Natur gezeichneten und gemalten Tafeln zum Anschauungs-Unterricht für Schulen und …

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  • Sketches in early Tasmania and Victoria by Emily Bowring (deluxe edition)

    # 34539

    BOWRING, Emily

    Sketches in early Tasmania and Victoria by Emily Bowring (deluxe edition)

    Edited by K. R. von Stieglitz, O.B.E. Victorian captions by P. L. Brown. Hobart : Fuller’s Bookshop, 1965. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in illustrated dustjacket (silver fishing, mainly to lower wrapper), pp. [40], illustrated. Presentation copy from von Stieglitz to historian Marnie Bassett with signed inscription, with related correspondence loosely enclosed. ‘The author’s known and …

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  • The continuous landscape of distance : Fred Williams Bass Strait Island paintings

    # 34478

    WILLIAMS, Fred (1927 - 1982)

    The continuous landscape of distance : Fred Williams Bass Strait Island paintings

    [Launceston, Tasmania] : Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, [2014]. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. [28], illustrated. A fine copy.

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  • Days and nights of salmon fishing in the River Tweed

    # 34411

    SCROPE, William

    Days and nights of salmon fishing in the River Tweed

    Illustrated by Sir David Wilkie, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cooke. London : Hamilton, Adams & Co., and Glasgow : Thomas D. Morison, 1885. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth, edges rubbed, old sticker to head of spine, light stains to endpapers, bookplate from the Library of Parliament, Tasmania to front pastedown, lithographed …

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  • Convicts and Carriageways : Tasmanian road development until 1880

    # 34294

    NEWITT, Lyn et al.

    Convicts and Carriageways : Tasmanian road development until 1880

    Researched and written by Lyn Newitt ; edited by Alan Jones. Tasmania : Department of Main Roads, 1988. Folio, illustrated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. ix, 332, illustrated, previous owner’s blind stamp to half-title, a fine copy.

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  • Whaling ways of Hobart Town

    # 34443

    PHILP, J. E.

    Whaling ways of Hobart Town

    Hobart : J. Walch, [1936]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers ( spine chipped with loss), previous owner’s name to upper wrapper and title page, pp. 95, photographically illustrated.  

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  • Terms upon which land is granted to Settlers in New South Wales & Van Dieman's [sic] Land.

    # 33988

    GREAT BRITAIN. COLONIAL OFFICE.

    Terms upon which land is granted to Settlers in New South Wales & Van Dieman’s [sic] Land.

    [Drop-head title]. London : Colonial Office, Downing-Street, April, 1827. Foolscap folio bifolium (340 mm); [3], [1 blank] pp; letterpress on wove paper with Britannia watermark and date 1825; edges untrimmed, neat old folds; a fine example. The rare first edition of this highly significant Colonial Office document outlining the rules by which the acquisition of …

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  • Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.

    # 33639

    CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (after)

    Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.

    [Title from printed caption below image]. Wood-engraved panorama, 195 x 550 mm (sheet); no engraver’s details; central vertical fold with light foxing, else very good. This engraved view was removed (by a previous owner) from a copy of the April 4 1868 edition of the Illustrated London News, in which the panorama was one of …

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  • True light and shade : an aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett's art

    # 34110

    MAYNARD, John

    True light and shade : an aboriginal perspective of Joseph Lycett’s art

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2014. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, illustrated. Out of print, an as new copy. ‘True light and shade’ is filled with beautiful images by convict artist Joseph Lycett that powerfully capture in intimate detail Aboriginal life, a rare record of Aboriginal people within the vicinity of Newcastle and how …

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  • David Chapman 1927 - 83. The Tasmanian years

    # 34074

    DUNABR, Diane

    David Chapman 1927 – 83. The Tasmanian years

    Launceston : Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, 1987. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly marked, pp. 60,  illustrated, extensive catalogue.

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  • Bill Henson : Photographs. May 3rd - 18th 1984. Cockatoo Gallery, 11 Tamar Street, Launceston....

    # 33613

    HENSON, Bill (1955- )

    Bill Henson : Photographs. May 3rd – 18th 1984. Cockatoo Gallery, 11 Tamar Street, Launceston….

    Offset-printed poster, 635 x 460 mm; unmounted; in very good condition, with a few minor surface marks on the lower section; verso with old tape marks at corners. This poster for Henson’s 1984 exhibition at Launceston’s Cockatoo Gallery dates from late in the first decade of the revered photographer’s long and successful career (his first …

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  • Convict and free : the master furniture-makers of New South Wales 1788-1851

    # 33717

    KELLY, David St. L.

    Convict and free : the master furniture-makers of New South Wales 1788-1851

    Kew, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014. Quarto, green cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 377 pp, 24 full-page colour plates and black-and-white illustrations in the text; a new copy of a book now out of print. A superbly produced publication, one which will surely become an essential reference on the subject. The biographies and work …

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  • The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land

    # 33810

    CRAIG, Clifford

    The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land

    Launceston : Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards, x, 172 pp, illustrated with black and white plates, a very good copy. The Geoffrey Ingleton copy, with his bookplate and catalogue number.

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  • Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler's publications for the Sesquicentenary)

    # 33207

    ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (publisher); HURLEY, Frank (photographer)

    Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler’s publications for the Sesquicentenary)

    Sydney, N.S.W. : Simmons Limited, 1938. “Produced by Oswald L. Ziegler under the authority of Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council and in collaboration with its publicity committee.” (title page). Elephant folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher’s tan leather over boards (lightly rubbed and marked), upper board with black leather panel lettered in gilt 150 Years; all …

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  • The Medical telephone : containing hints on the preservation of health, notes on nursing and feeding, plain directions for treating diseases, ambulance lectures on wounds and fractures. 

    # 16140

    HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACY (HOBART)

    The Medical telephone : containing hints on the preservation of health, notes on nursing and feeding, plain directions for treating diseases, ambulance lectures on wounds and fractures. 

    Hobart : The Homoeopathic Pharmacy, 1883. Duodecimo, original printed linen wrappers, 116 pp; a fine copy. Scarce.  

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