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

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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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Real Tassie Legends See details
Real Tassie Legends
Chronicles of an earlier Tasmania.
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Recollections from the Forest See details
Recollections from the Forest

75 years of forest service in Tasmania.

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Reverend George Eastman - The Convicts' Good Parson See details
Reverend George Eastman - The Convicts' Good Parson
The story of a parson who believed that convicts in the later period of Van Diemen's Land's transportation era (1844-1870) could be reformed and who did all within his ability to help them achieve this lofty goal.
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Revolutionary Imperialist - William Smith O'Brien See details
Revolutionary Imperialist - William Smith O'Brien
A book that traces William Smith O'Brien's domestic, political and nationalist life in Ireland, showing that, despite sympathy with British imperialism, he resorted to armed protest to win self-government for Ireland from Britain without a class or civil war. William Smith O'Brien became a political exile in Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania.
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Riders of Time See details
Riders of Time
Dame Mabel Brookes reflects on some key people and events in Australian colonial history.
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Ripper Tassie Tales See details
Ripper Tassie Tales
A combination of true and tall tales from Tasmania's rich pool of history and legend.
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Robert Knopwood in Van Diemen's Land See details
Robert Knopwood in Van Diemen's Land
Robert Knopwood arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1804 to serve as chaplain to the colony.
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Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert See details
Ross Bridge and the Sculpture of Daniel Herbert
The Ross Bridge in the midlands of Tasmania is a beautiful structure in itself but the extraordinary carvings on each stone of each arch make it one of the most remarkable pieces of convict art in Australia. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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