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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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History

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

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St. Andrew's Immigration Society - used See details
St. Andrew's Immigration Society - used
In 1854 the Launceston-based St. Andrew's Society established a separate association specifically to assist Scottish migrants.
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Suddenly One Sunday - Port Arthur tragedy based on eyewitness accounts, Mike Bingham |SC USED| See details
Suddenly One Sunday - Port Arthur tragedy based on eyewitness accounts, Mike Bingham |SC USED|

On 28 April 1996, a gunman killed 35 people and wounded 23 others at the Port Arthur historic site — the worst mass shooting in Australian history. The tragedy led directly to Australia's National Firearms Agreement, a major reform of the country's gun laws.

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Tales of Old Tasmania See details
Tales of Old Tasmania
Historic stories from the early colonial days of Tasmanian settlement.
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Tasmania Sketchbook See details
Tasmania Sketchbook
Black and white drawings of key Tasmanian landmarks by renowned artist Max Angus, published in the Rigby Australian historical series.
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Tasmania The History See details
Tasmania The History
A condensed history of Tasmania.
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Tasmania the Tipping Point? See details
Tasmania the Tipping Point?
Griffith Review 39
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Tasmania v. British Empire See details
Tasmania v. British Empire

A history of the battle to end convict transportation from Britain to Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania.

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Tasmania – The Postal History and Postal Markings Part I | Campbell, Purves & Viney | 1962 [USED – HC – Out of Print] See details
Tasmania – The Postal History and Postal Markings Part I | Campbell, Purves & Viney | 1962 [USED – HC – Out of Print]

The standard reference on Tasmanian postal history and postal markings, Part I — written by H.M. Campbell, J.R.W. Purves and L.C. Viney and published by the Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria in 1962. Part I covers the early postal history of Tasmania from the Van Diemen's Land period through the colonial era — the establishment of post offices, mail routes, and the postmarks used across the island's towns and settlements.

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Tasmania – The Postal History and Postal Markings Part II | Avery, Edwards, Ingles & Purves | 1975 [USED – HC – Out of Print] See details
Tasmania – The Postal History and Postal Markings Part II | Avery, Edwards, Ingles & Purves | 1975 [USED – HC – Out of Print]

The companion volume to Part I, covering the later period of Tasmanian postal history and postal markings. Where Part I focused on the early Van Diemen's Land period through the colonial era, Part II extends the record into the later period, covering additional postmarks, post office openings and closures, and the development of the Tasmanian postal network through the Federation era and beyond.

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Tasmania's Bygone Years of Road Transport 1900-1929 - used See details
Tasmania's Bygone Years of Road Transport 1900-1929 - used
Tasmania's Bygone Years of Road Transport 1900 - 1929 is a brief history of early motoring in Tasmania.
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