Tasmania's War Record, 1914-1918
Hobart, Published for the Government of Tasmania by J. Walch and Sons, 1921. Pages 217-370 contain 'Tasmania's Muster Roll, 1914-1918'. Dornbusch 213; Fielding and O'Neill, page 227; Trigellis-Smith 195. More
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The Fortieth. A Record of the 40th Battalion, AIF
Hobart, John Vail, Government Printer, for the 40th Battalion Association, 1922. Dornbusch 314; Fielding and O'Neill, page 229; Trigellis-Smith 238. More
Caught in the Act. Unusual Offences of Port Arthur Convicts
Port Arthur, Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority, 2002 (second impression)/ 1999 (revised edition)/ 1996. More
Thirty Years of Shikar
Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895. Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry Braddon KCMG (1829-1904), civil servant and politician, spent the years 1847 to 1878 in India, mainly as an administrator in the Deoghar division and the 'recently annexed province of Oudh.... much of his time was spent in the saddle', and..... More
Convicts Unbound. The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and their Settlement in Australia
Ringwood, Viking O'Neil, 1988. 'The book traces the lives and experiences of the specially selected 308 convicts transported in 'HMS Calcutta' in 1803' (from the blurb). More
The Illusion of Riches. Scale, Resolution and Explanation in Tasmanian Pleistocene Human Behaviour
Oxford, Tempus Reparatum, Archaeological and Historical Associates Limited, 1995. With the contemporary ink ownership details of pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022). British Archaeological Reports International Series, Number 608. More
Coastal Southwest Tasmania. The Prehistory of Louisa Bay and Maatsuyker Island
Canberra, The Australian National University, 1984. Terra Australis series, Number 9. More
Report of the Southern Forests Archaeological Project. Volume 1: Site Descriptions, Stratigraphies and Chronologies
Bundoora, School of Archaeology, La Trobe University, 1996. Presentation copy. Inscribed and signed in ink by the editor to pioneering desert field archaeologist Professor Mike Smith AM (1955-2022), and with Smith's ink ownership details. Tempus. Archaeology and Material Culture Studies in Anthropology, Volume 4. More
The Student's Flora of Tasmania. Part 1: Gymnospermae. Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. [Together with] ... Part 2: Angiospermae: Lythraceae to Epacridaceae; ... [and] Part 3: Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae
Hobart, Government Printer, 1956, 1963 and 1967. The first three parts of five (Part 4B was published in 1994). More
Kate Weindorfer. The Woman Behind the Man and the Mountain. A Biography of Kate Julia Weindorfer, Wife of Cradle Mountain Pioneer Gustav Weindorfer
Launceston, Regal Publications, 1998/ 1995. More
Broken Spear. The Untold Story of Black Tom Birch, the Man who Sparked Australia's Bloodiest War
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2021. 'Black Tom Birch was the most feared and hated man in Van Dieman's Land. For four years he kept the colony in a state of terror ...' (from the blurb). More
Continuity and Change. An Investigation of the Flaked Stone Artifacts from the Pleistocene Deposits at Bone Cave, Southwest Tasmania, Australia
[Bundoora], Archaeology Program, School of Historical and European Studies, La Trobe University, 2004. Loosely inserted is a University of Auckland letterhead compliments slip inscribed and signed in ink by the author ('Simon'). Simon Holdaway lectured at La Trobe from 1994-1998, returning to The University of Auckland in 1999, and became..... More
The Encounter, 1802. Art of the Flinders and Baudin Voyages
Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002. This sumptuous catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the AGSA in early 2002 to commemorate the bicentenary of the historic meeting of the two expeditions in Encounter Bay. More
Lake Pedder
Hobart, The Wilderness Society, 1985. The other contributors mentioned at the foot of the title page are Kevin Kiernan, Ralph and Elspeth Hope-Johnstone, and Geoff Parr. More
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque
Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2003. More
Black War. The Extermination of the Tasmanian Aborigines
Melbourne, Cheshire-Lansdowne, 1966 (second edition)/ 1948. The title leaf is a cancel. 'Cheshire-Lansdowne' is printed at the foot of the title page; 'First published by F.W. Cheshire in 1948. This edition by Lansdowne Press Pty. Ltd.' is printed on the recto; and 'Nation Evergreen' is printed at the foot of..... More
The Brief Case. A Collection of Papers on Tasmanian Legal Memorabilia and Tasmanian Places associated with the 21st Australian Legal Convention
Hobart, The Law Council of Australia/ Melanie Publications, 1981. 'A souvenir of the 21st Australian Legal Convention held in Hobart, Tasmania 4-11 July, 1981'. More
Charles Davis. 150 Years
Toorak, Harris Scarfe Holdings, 1998. Number 841 of 2000 copies. A giant in Australian retail, who arrived in Tasmania as a convict and built a lasting retail empire (absorbing Harris Scarfe and G.P. FitzGerald). More
Systematic Account of the Geology of Tasmania
Hobart, William Thomas Strutt, Government Printer, 1888. Robert Mackenzie Johnston (1843-1918), civil servant, scientist and statistician, whose 'greatest claim to scientific fame was his monumental "Systematic Account of the Geology of Tasmania" (1888). Its treatment of the island's Permian, Triassic and Tertiary rocks and fossils demonstrated outstanding scientific skills and..... More
Journals of Expeditions in Van Diemen's Land, 1833
[Adelaide], Sullivan's Cove ('set and printed entirely by hand at the Nag's Head Press in Christchurch'), 1985. One of only 175 copies initialled by the publisher (James Dally). This is the first publication of these expeditions (from the original manuscripts in the Archives Office of Tasmania). They are 'To the..... More
Old Colonial Buildings of Australia
Sydney, Methuen Australia, 1980. More
New Holland Journal. November, 1833 - October 1834. Translated and edited by Dymphna Clark. Botanical Index by Roger Hnatiuk
Carlton, Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press in association with the State Library of New South Wales, 1994. Number 17 in the first numbered Miegunyah series. More
Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
Melbourne, Georgian House, 1972 (first edition). The half-title has been signed by Kevin Fahy, and inscribed and signed by Clifford Craig (as 'Cliff Craig'). More
The Story of the Twelfth. A Record of the 12th Battalion AIF, during the Great War of 1914-1918
Swanbourne, John Burridge, 2000 [large-format revised edition]/ 1925. 'Unusually for Burridge, this is not a facsimile, but a new edition in a larger format. John Burridge told me in 1996 that he had put off this project for some years because of the challenge presented by the squat, thick format..... More
Wild Rivers. Franklin/ Denison/ Gordon
Sandy Bay, Peter Dombrovskis Pty Ltd, 1983. More