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

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Lady Franklin's Revenge - used See details
Lady Franklin's Revenge - used
A true story of ambition, obsession and the remaking of Arctic history.
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Lake Pedder - Why a national park must be saved See details
Lake Pedder - Why a national park must be saved
A vintage booklet published to support the campaign to save Lake Pedder from flooding for the purposes of expanding Tasmania's hydro-electric power scheme in the 1970s.
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Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists - Van Diemen's Land 1803-1822 See details
Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists - Van Diemen's Land 1803-1822
This book records many of the old documents from the early convict settlement of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1822.
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Launceston General Hospital - celebrating 150 years of caring See details
Launceston General Hospital - celebrating 150 years of caring
A history of the LGH.
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Lawless Harvests or God Save the Judges See details
Lawless Harvests or God Save the Judges
A legal history of Van Diemen's Land (subsequently Tasmania) from 1803 to 1855.



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Lawyers and the Community See details
Lawyers and the Community
A history of lawyers and the Tasmanian community from Tasman Shields K.C. to John Kable Q.C. This is an out-of-print book in USED and somewhat worn condition.
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Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb See details
Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb
The history of the convict William Webb, transported for theft, and the very successful legacy his family left to the young colony in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania and beyond.
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Letters from Hobart 1889–1892 | James Backhouse Walker | Margaret Glover (Ed.) | 2015 | Signed by Editor [USED – HCDJ] See details
Letters from Hobart 1889–1892 | James Backhouse Walker | Margaret Glover (Ed.) | 2015 | Signed by Editor [USED – HCDJ]

The correspondence of James Backhouse Walker to his sister Mary in London over four years from 1889 to 1892, edited by Margaret Glover and published in 2015. Walker was one of Hobart's most prominent lawyers and a noted historian of Van Diemen's Land — his historical papers on early Tasmania remain among the most cited sources in Tasmanian colonial history.

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Letters to Pituncarty Tasmania - signed See details
Letters to Pituncarty Tasmania - signed
Colonial correspondence of Christian Taylor Buist who lived at Pituncarty on the Macquarie River in Tasmania's Midlands, including letters from Ellinthorpe (sic) Hall, telling much of the local Taylor family history.

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Letters to Sir Joseph Banks See details
Letters to Sir Joseph Banks
Letters from Hobart's founder David Collins to the naturalist Sir Joseph Banks - London and the Derwent 1798-1808.

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