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Tasmanian Built – The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register | King, Torossi, Evans & Plapp | 2022 [NEW – Large SC] See details
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 See details
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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Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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Other Hospitals in Launceston 19th-21st century See details
Other Hospitals in Launceston 19th-21st century
A history of some of the early Launceston hospitals and the women who provided nursing care in the home and in the community - northern Tasmania.
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Persistence Pays - Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal See details
Persistence Pays - Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal
A book about the discovery of Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal of his 1835 voyage from England to New Holland.
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Persistence Pays – The Discovery of Dr William Russ Pugh's Log and Journal of His 1835 Voyage from England to New Holland | John Paull (Ed.) | 2017 | Hardcover Limited Edition 54/150 [USED – HC – Very Good] See details
Persistence Pays – The Discovery of Dr William Russ Pugh's Log and Journal of His 1835 Voyage from England to New Holland | John Paull (Ed.) | 2017 | Hardcover Limited Edition 54/150 [USED – HC – Very Good]

The log and journal kept by Dr William Russ Pugh during his 1835 voyage from England to New Holland — transcribed, annotated and published by retired Launceston anaesthetist Dr John Paull in 2017. Pugh arrived in Hobart in December 1835 and walked north to Launceston, where he established a medical practice that would make history.

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Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land - P.E. de Strzelecki | First Edition, London 1845 See details
Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land - P.E. de Strzelecki | First Edition, London 1845

P.E. de Strzelecki, a Polish-born explorer and geologist, spent 1839–1843 surveying large parts of New South Wales, Gippsland and Van Diemen's Land on foot, during which he identified and named Mount Kosciuszko, Australia's highest peak. This book compiles the results of that survey — mineral assays, soil analyses and geological mapping — accompanied by a fold-out geological map, sections and diagrams, and figures of organic remains.

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Pictorial Portrayal of Tasmania's Past – From Beattie's Studio | Basil Rait | 1982 [USED – HCDJ – Good] See details
Pictorial Portrayal of Tasmania's Past – From Beattie's Studio | Basil Rait | 1982 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

A collection of historical photographs from the Beattie Studio in Hobart — J.W. Beattie's archive of Tasmania's past, selected and presented by Basil Rait. J.W. Beattie was Tasmania's most significant colonial-era photographer, whose studio documented the island's landscape, communities, industries and people across the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Port Arthur - a Story of Strength and Courage See details
Port Arthur - a Story of Strength and Courage
Writer and resident of the Tasman Peninsula, Margaret Scott reflects on the year following the 1996 massacre at Port Arthur.
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Power in Tasmania - Hydro See details
Power in Tasmania - Hydro
A book that considers the power and influence of the Hydro Electric Commission HEC in Tasmania.
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Prospecting the Pieman – George Campbell Meredith 1876–1877 | Alice Meredith Hodgson (Ed.) | 2009 [USED – SC] See details
Prospecting the Pieman – George Campbell Meredith 1876–1877 | Alice Meredith Hodgson (Ed.) | 2009 [USED – SC]

For seventeen weeks over the summer of 1876–77, George Campbell Meredith and his brother Owen prospected and trekked through the remote country along the Pieman River on Tasmania's west coast — one of the least-known and most difficult pieces of terrain on the island.

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Pubs and Publicans of Tasmania's Old West See details
Pubs and Publicans of Tasmania's Old West
A comprehensive listing of the pubs of Tasmania's remote West Coast from the 19th century mining boom to more recent times.
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Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission See details
Reading Robinson - Companion essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission

A collection of essays by Australian and international historians examining George Augustus Robinson's Friendly Mission — the journals Robinson kept during his time among the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land from 1829 to 1834, edited by N.J.B. Plomley and republished in a second edition in 2008.

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