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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]
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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A Compulsion to Kill - Tasmania's Earliest Serial Killers
A Compulsion to Kill is a dramatic chronological account of 19th-century Tasmanian serial murderers. In this book Robert Cox probes the essence of both the crimes and the killers themselves.

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A History of Campbell Town - The Children of Erin
Stories of the early settlers of Campbell Town that are designed to shed light on this Northern Midlands town from its earliest years through to modern times.

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A History of Goldmining on the Tasmanian West Coast
A small but detailed booklet of the history of gold mining in western Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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A History of Tasmania - used
Henry Reynolds' history of Tasmania charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late 18th century, through to the modern day.

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A History of Tasmania – Complete 2-Volume Set | Lloyd Robson | 1983/1991 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

The complete two-volume academic history of Tasmania by Lloyd Robson, widely regarded as the standard modern historical treatment of the island's past. Together the two volumes constitute the most thorough and rigorously researched single-author history of Tasmania available.


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A History of Tasmania – Volume II Only: Colony and State 1856 to the 1980s | Lloyd Robson | 1991 [USED – HCDJ]

Volume II of Lloyd Robson's two-volume A History of Tasmania, sold here as a standalone book. This volume covers the period from 1856 — when Tasmania achieved self-government and the colony's name was formally changed from Van Diemen's Land — through to the 1980s.


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A History of the Post Office in Tasmania
A history of the postal service in Tasmania.

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A Home in the Colonies
A reprint of Edward Braddon's letters written in 1878 for publication in Indian newspapers soon after his arrival in the colony at Forth in North-West Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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A Million Horses - Hydro power history
A Million Horses is a history of the hydro electric power scheme - the Hydro - in Tasmania; published in 1962.

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A Passion for Exploring New Countries
The young exploring lives of Matthew Flinders and George Bass.

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