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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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American Citizens, British Slaves - Yankee political prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony See details
American Citizens, British Slaves - Yankee political prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony
This book tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1839-1840.
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Anaesthesia - Awakening the Sleeping Giant See details
Anaesthesia - Awakening the Sleeping Giant
This book is a celebration of William Russ Pugh's first anaesthetic in Launceston, Tasmania - a development which revolutionised medicine and surgery. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Andrew Bent and the Freedom of the Press in Van Diemen's Land See details
Andrew Bent and the Freedom of the Press in Van Diemen's Land
The work of printer and emancipist Andrew Bent and the freedom of the press in Van Diemen's Land.
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Annie Baxter's Memories See details
Annie Baxter's Memories
Annie Baxter's Memories of Tasmania and of the Macleay River and New England districts of New South Wales and of Port Fairy in the Western District of Port Phillip 1834-1848.
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Around the Kitchen Table See details
Around the Kitchen Table
Around the Kitchen Table with the Missionary Sisters of Service - a portrait of the spirit and the heart of this Tasmanian-bred, Australian-grown Congregation of Religious Women. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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At the Movies – The History of the Star Theatres of Tasmania | Jenny Overton | 2020 [HC] See details
At the Movies – The History of the Star Theatres of Tasmania | Jenny Overton | 2020 [HC]

A history of the Star Theatre chain in Tasmania — the independent cinema network that operated picture theatres across the island through much of the 20th century.

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Aurora Australis 1908-09 See details
Aurora Australis 1908-09
A book about the first book to be wholly published within the Antarctic region - from Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-0 - including a facsimile of the original book.
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Australia's Birthstain - used hardcover See details
Australia's Birthstain - used hardcover
The startling legacy of the convict era - Babette Smith's groundbreaking history of convicts in Australia, which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past.
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Ballycurragh to Tasmania 1649-1868 Grey & Innes families - Volume Two See details
Ballycurragh to Tasmania 1649-1868 Grey & Innes families - Volume Two
This is volume two of a narrative about three emmigrant Gray / Grey families and their new lives in their chosen home of Van Diemen's Land in the late 1830s, including the reasons which propelled each one into such a momentous change.
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Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land - used See details
Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land - used
Where did the name Van Diemen's Land come from? How was it chosen? Were there any alternatives? And how did it obtain self-government and the new name of Tasmania?
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