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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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Beneath the Peak of Lyell See details
Beneath the Peak of Lyell
The Mount Lyell mines and their 2ft gauge tramways - a history.
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Bishop of Tasmania's Visit to Bass Strait - The Cruise of the Beacon - association copy See details
Bishop of Tasmania's Visit to Bass Strait - The Cruise of the Beacon - association copy

A first-edition copy of Bishop Nixon's narrative of his visit to the Bass Strait islands, featuring his original woodcut illustrations. This particular copy carries an interesting chain of Tasmanian ownership spanning over a century.

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Black Founders - used See details
Black Founders - used
The unknown story of Australia's first black settlers. This Australian history is based around the fact that black convicts were among the First Fleet settlers – something which profoundly complicates the understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia.
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Black Tuesday See details
Black Tuesday
Memories from the mega fire in Hobart and South East Tasmania on 7 February 1967.
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Blockade See details
Blockade
Two weeks at the Franklin River Protest in words and photographs.
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Bobby Knopwood and his Times See details
Bobby Knopwood and his Times
Bobby Knopwood and his Times - from the diaries of 1804-8,1814-17 by the Rev. Robert Knopwood, M.A., Chaplain to Lieutenant-Governor Collins, the founder of Hobart - compiled and edited by Mabel Hookey.
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Bound by Every Tie of Duty See details
Bound by Every Tie of Duty
A biography of John Lewes Pedder, Chief Justice of Van Diemen's Land from 1824 to 1854.
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Bound for Australia See details
Bound for Australia
A guide to the records held by The National Archives in the UK of transported convicts and early settlers to the Australian colonies.
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Bridging the Strait See details
Bridging the Strait
A salute to the first man to fly across Bass Strait from mainland Australia to Tasmania, Lieut Arthur L Long.
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Broken Spear - Black Tom Birch & Australia's bloodiest war See details
Broken Spear - Black Tom Birch & Australia's bloodiest war
The true story of Black Tom Birch of Van Diemen's Land - a charismatic Aboriginal patriot and his unending fight against colonial invasion.
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