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A broad collection of Tasmanian history books, spanning colonial settlement and Van Diemen's Land through to the state's more recent history. For town and district-specific histories, see our Local History section; for the stories of individual Tasmanians, see Biography.

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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 - Peter Degraves' fall from grace and Major Hugh Macintosh's mutiny in India, before Cascade Brewery | Greg Jefferys | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Heroes and Villains tells two very different life stories that converged on the same ship to Hobart - Peter Degraves, industrialist and Major Hugh Macintosh, soldier of fortune. The two men's paths meet in the book's third section, aboard the colonial ship Hope, bound for Hobart, where Degraves went on to found Cascade Brewery — today 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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History of Tasmania
A history of Tasmania from its discovery in 1642 to 1884 by James Fenton with map of the island and portraits of aborigines in chromo-lithography - facsimile edition published in 1978.

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Hobart Town Album 1804-1850
General views of Hobart Town or of its individual buildings sketched by various artists before 1850.

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Hobart Town or Summer Holiday Resort in the Antipodes
A translation into English by Eva Meidl of Archduke Ludwig Salvator's 300-page illustrated book Hobarttown oder Sommerfrische in den Antipoden, written following his visit to Tasmania in February 1881.

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