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Tasmanian Built – The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register | King, Torossi, Evans & Plapp | 2022 [NEW – Large SC]
Added: Mar 27, 2026

One hundred places on the Tasmanian Heritage Register — and the stories of why they were built, who built them, and why they matter. Tasmania has more heritage-listed buildings per capita than any other Australian state, and the stories behind them are often as significant as the buildings themselves.


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We Were The First - early pioneering in north-west Tasmania and Trowutta
Added: Aug 12, 2026

Seafield Deuchar (born Brisbane, 1886) studied at Cambridge before settling near Wynyard in Tasmania's north-west in 1916, taking up and clearing pioneering farmland near Trowutta. This book, illustrated throughout with Deuchar's own paintings, covers clearing the forest, building the family home, water supply, early agriculture and exploration of the district, and the pioneers of Trowutta and district.


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History

Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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God Bless Little Sister
Tasmanian historical novel based on the 1912 Queenstown mining disaster at North Lyell.

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Gravely Tasmanian - 3 volume set
A set of the three titles published in the Gravely Tasmanian series - Volumes I, II & III - friendly guides to some Tasmanian graveyards, illustrated with black and white sketches throughout.

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Hearts to Love & Hands to Save
The story of Calvary Hospital, Hobart.

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Henry Hellyer's Observations - softcover

Bertram Thomas presents the journals of Henry Hellyer, Van Diemen's Land Company surveyor, exploring and mapping north-west Tasmania in 1826–27. Softcover, 2011, illustrated.


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Henry Reed Van Diemen's Land Pioneer
An early Tasmanian biography. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Here's Cheers - A Pictorial History of Hotels, Taverns & Inns in Hobart

A pictorial history of hotels, taverns and inns in Hobart which, through its enticing illustrations, encourages us to explore for ourselves the beguiling stories behind the public houses of early Hobart.


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Heritage of Stone
Heritage of Stone is a vintage booklet capturing the character of old stone buildings and structures in Tasmania. Illustrated with black/white sketches.

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Heroes and Villains - Cascade Brewery
Heroes and Villains tells the story of the founders of Cascade Brewery, Australia's oldest brewery.

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Highway in Van Diemen's Land – History of the Main Coach Highway Between Hobart and Launceston | G. Hawley Stancombe & Eric Ratcliff | 1968 | Signed & Numbered 694/1000 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

G. Hawley Stancombe and Eric Ratcliff's history of the main coaching highway between Hobart and Launceston — the road that became the Midland Highway, and remains today the primary artery connecting Tasmania's two largest cities through the island's historic pastoral heartland.


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Historic Tasmanian Mountain Huts through the photographer's lens
The introduction of portable dry plate cameras in the late 1970s marked the beginning of a golden age of Tasmanian landscape photography.

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