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Tasmanian Built See details
Tasmanian Built
Added: Mar 27, 2026
A beautifully illustrated book of 100 of the places of the Tasmanian Heritage Register and their stories.
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The Van Diemen's Land Edition of the Pickwick Papers – A Bibliographical Study | Clifford Craig | 1973 | Limited Edition No. 24/150 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good] See details
The Van Diemen's Land Edition of the Pickwick Papers – A Bibliographical Study | Clifford Craig | 1973 | Limited Edition No. 24/150 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]
Added: Jun 20, 2026

Clifford Craig's bibliographical study of one of the most extraordinary episodes in early Australian publishing — the unauthorised "pirated" Van Diemen's Land edition of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, printed in Launceston by Henry Dowling between 1838 and 1839, while Dickens's original London serial publication was still being released.

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History

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

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Heroes and Villains - Cascade Brewery See details
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 See details
Highway in Van Diemen's Land

A history of the main coach highway between Hobart and Launceston in Tasmania - still largely the route followed by north / south traffic through the middle Tasmania.

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Historic Tasmanian Mountain Huts through the photographer's lens See details
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 See details
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 See details
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 See details
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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Houses & Estates of Old Glamorgan See details
Houses & Estates of Old Glamorgan
A revised, updated and enlarged selection of Glamorgan municipality heritage properties on Tasmania's east coast.
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I Had A Quid to Get - Adamsfield See details
I Had A Quid to Get - Adamsfield
I Had A Quid to Get - a book recalling the days around osmiridium mining at Adamsfield 1925 and other Tasmanian stories.
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Ill-starred Captains - Flinders & Baudin See details
Ill-starred Captains - Flinders & Baudin
A book about the South Pacific maritime expeditions of Matthew Flinders for Britain, and Nicolas Baudin for France, at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
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In My Day – A History of General Nurse Training at the Royal Hobart Hospital 1803–1993 | Cheryl Norris | 2011 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
In My Day – A History of General Nurse Training at the Royal Hobart Hospital 1803–1993 | Cheryl Norris | 2011 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A history of general nurse training at the Royal Hobart Hospital, spanning from the hospital's earliest colonial origins in 1803 through to 1993. The Royal Hobart Hospital's roots reach back to the earliest years of European settlement in Van Diemen's Land, and nurse training there evolved over almost two centuries from informal colonial-era care through to the structured professional training systems of the 20th century.

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