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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] 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 Zinc Works See details
The Zinc Works
A history of the EZ zinc works producing zinc at Risdon on the edge of Hobart, from 1916 to 1991.
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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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This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited See details
This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
A revised history of the relationship between Indigenous Australians and early settlers, with a focus on those men and women who fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites.
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To Hell or to Hobart See details
To Hell or to Hobart

The story of an Irish convict couple - Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon - transported to Van Diemen's Land / Tasmania in the 1840s.

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To Solitude Consigned – The Tasmanian Journal of William Smith O'Brien 1849–1853 | Richard Davis (Ed.) | 1995 | Limited First Edition 453/500 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good] See details
To Solitude Consigned – The Tasmanian Journal of William Smith O'Brien 1849–1853 | Richard Davis (Ed.) | 1995 | Limited First Edition 453/500 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

The Tasmanian journal of William Smith O'Brien, covering his years as a political exile in Van Diemen's Land from 1849 to 1853. Edited by Richard Davis and published in 1995 as a limited first edition of 500 numbered copies. O'Brien was one of the most prominent figures in the Young Ireland movement — a Protestant Irish nationalist and Member of the Westminster Parliament who led the failed 1848 rebellion against British rule.

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Touring Tasmania in the 1880s See details
Touring Tasmania in the 1880s
The newspaper articles of special correspondent Theophilus Jones who travelled extensively through Tasmania during the 1880s.
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Two Voyages to the South Seas – Astrolabe 1826–1829 & Zélée 1837–1840 | Jules Dumont d'Urville | 1987 | Signed by Translator [USED – HCDJ – Slipcase – Very Good] See details
Two Voyages to the South Seas – Astrolabe 1826–1829 & Zélée 1837–1840 | Jules Dumont d'Urville | 1987 | Signed by Translator [USED – HCDJ – Slipcase – Very Good]

An English translation of Jules Dumont d'Urville's accounts of his two great South Seas voyages — the Astrolabe voyage of 1826–1829 and the Zélée voyage of 1837–1840 — published by Melbourne University Press in 1987 in two volumes with slipcase. D'Urville was one of the most significant French naval explorers of the 19th century.

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Unearthed - Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island - used See details
Unearthed - Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island - used
Aboriginal Tasmanian descendants are still living on Kangaroo Island today and this book is their story.
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Unnecessary Wars See details
Unnecessary Wars
Tasmanian-based historian Henry Reynolds shows how the Boer War left a dark and dangerous legacy, demonstrating how those beliefs have propelled Australia into too many unnecessary wars – without counting the cost.
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UpRiver – Untold Stories of the Franklin River Activists | Alice Hungerford | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
UpRiver – Untold Stories of the Franklin River Activists | Alice Hungerford | 2013 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

An oral history of the Franklin River campaign, told through interviews with the people who took part in the blockade and the broader fight to stop the damming of the Franklin River. Where Wild Rivers captured the campaign through Peter Dombrovskis's photographs and Bob Brown's words, UpRiver tells the story from a different angle — the voices of the ordinary people who travelled to South West Tasmania, joined the blockade, and were arrested for it.

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