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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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The Tasmanian Story - short historical account by Lloyd Robson |SC 1987| See details
The Tasmanian Story - short historical account by Lloyd Robson |SC 1987|

A short historical account of Tasmania by Lloyd Robson (1931–1990), condensed from his own major two-volume work, A History of Tasmania (1983/1991).

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The Tasmanian Traveller - 19th century companion for modern travellers See details
The Tasmanian Traveller - 19th century companion for modern travellers
A 19th century companion for modern travellers in Tasmania, with an interest in history and heritage.
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The Usefulness of John West - signed See details
The Usefulness of John West - signed
Dissent and difference in the Australian colonies. Signed by the author.
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The Usurper – Jorgen Jorgenson and His Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780–1841 | Dan Sprod | 2001 [NEW – HCDJ] See details
The Usurper – Jorgen Jorgenson and His Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780–1841 | Dan Sprod | 2001 [NEW – HCDJ]

Dan Sprod's biography of Jorgen Jorgenson — one of the most extraordinary figures in Tasmanian history, and arguably in world history of the period. The Usurper is the definitive biography — 718 pages, fully indexed, including the full text of Jorgenson's own account of the Iceland 'revolution.'

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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]

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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The Wesleyans of Port Arthur See details
The Wesleyans of Port Arthur
The legacy of the Wesleyan missionaries at Port Arthur Penal Settlement and Point Puer Juvenile Prison on the Tasman Peninsula in Van Diemen's Land 1833 - 1843.
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The Whitehead Letters See details
The Whitehead Letters
The Whitehead Letters reflects Tasmanian society and politics between 1871 and 1882.
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The Wild Ride See details
The Wild Ride
Revolutions that shaped Tasmanian black and white wilderness photography from the sublime to the skyline. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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The Zinc Works - Producing zinc at Risdon 1916-1991 in Hobart, Tasmania See details
The Zinc Works - Producing zinc at Risdon 1916-1991 in Hobart, Tasmania

A history of the EZ zinc works at Risdon, on the edge of Hobart, from 1916 to 1991. Tasmanian industrial history.

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This Errant Lady See details
This Errant Lady
Jane Franklin's overland journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1839.
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