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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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The Master of Hell’s Gates See details
The Master of Hell’s Gates
Captain William Kinghorne (1796 - 1878) navigated some of the most treacherous waters in the world.
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The Old Kirk and St. Andrew's Church, Launceston See details
The Old Kirk and St. Andrew's Church, Launceston
An account of the people and events in the life of The Old Kirk and St. Andrew's Church, Launceston.
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The Peaks of Lyell See details
The Peaks of Lyell
A history of Mount Lyell Mining & Railway Company in Tasmania.
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The Prince and the Assassin - Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror See details
The Prince and the Assassin - Australia's First Royal Tour and Portent of World Terror
The engrossing real life story of how Queen Victoria's favourite son, Prince Alfred, undertook the most ambitious Royal tour, only for Australia's overwhelming joy of having the first Royal on its shores jolted by his decadent behaviour, then shocked by an attempted assassination by a man trained as a priest.
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The Remarkable Captain James Kelly of Van Diemen's Land See details
The Remarkable Captain James Kelly of Van Diemen's Land
The story of James Kelly, the son of a convict woman, who became the first Australian born master mariner, a trader, explorer and entrepreneur.
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The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd - signed See details
The Rise and Fall of Gunns Ltd - signed
At its peak, Gunns Ltd had a market value of $1 billion, was listed on the ASX 200, was the largest employer in Tasmania and its largest private landowner.
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The Rock which makes Tasmania See details
The Rock which makes Tasmania
The Rock which makes Tasmania - Tasmania's Curse is a book about dolerite and Tasmanian geology.
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The Sarah Island Conspiracies See details
The Sarah Island Conspiracies
An account of twelve voyages to Macquarie Harbour and Sarah Island on the west coast of Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania between 1822 and 1838.
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The Scott Letters - VDL & Scotland 1836-55 See details
The Scott Letters - VDL & Scotland 1836-55
This book contains letters written in the early 1800s by James and George Scott, surveyors and early Tasmanian explorers, to their brother Thomas when he returned from Van Diemen's Land to live in Scotland.
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The Struggle for Self Government in Tasmania 1842-1856 See details
The Struggle for Self Government in Tasmania 1842-1856
Within the short formative period of Tasmania studied in this book, just about every conceivable constitutional conflict arose in relation to the growth of all the key institutions in the colony in Van Diemen's Land.
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