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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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Down Wapping - Hobart's vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts See details
Down Wapping - Hobart's vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts
Wapping was a working class residential district which lay on either side of the Hobart Rivulet, and in the latter half of the 19th century was widely regarded by Hobart's upper crust as the city's worst slum. This history looks beyond the stereotype and into the reality of what was once Wapping. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
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Early Tasmania See details
Early Tasmania
History of early Tasmania as reflected in papers read before the Royal Society of Tasmania during the years 1888 to 1899. With 6 loose charts in the back.
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Early Tasmanian Bridges See details
Early Tasmanian Bridges
Early Tasmanian Bridges considers the origins, stalwart resistance and occasional failure in times of flooding of the early masonry bridges built mostly by convicts.
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Early Van Diemen's Land 1835-1860 Sketches See details
Early Van Diemen's Land 1835-1860 Sketches
Early Van Diemen's Land 1835-1860 sketches by Emma von Stieglitz.
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Earthly Secrets - What our planet has yet to tell us See details
Earthly Secrets - What our planet has yet to tell us
In Earthly Secrets, Tasmanian geologist David Leaman strips a range of topics back to the knowledge we think we can be reasonably certain about, and then exposes the assumptions which are built in, to show how little we do actually know about our home - planet Earth.
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Echoes on the Mountain - used See details
Echoes on the Mountain - used
Remarkable migrant stories from the Hydro villages of the Tasmanian Central Highlands.
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Edward Markham's Van Diemen's Land Journal 1833 See details
Edward Markham's Van Diemen's Land Journal 1833
Edward Markham's journal of his 1833 voyage to Van Diemen's Land, along with six historical essays covering the colonial times of Governor Collins, Governor Davey, Governor Sorell, Governor Arthur, Mrs JF Irvine's memories of Port Arthur and the "blacks", and smuggler Lieut Jeffreys RN.
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Effecting a Cure See details
Effecting a Cure
Aspects of health and medicine in Launceston - Tasmanian medical history.
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Elizabeth Robertson's Diary - Norfolk Island 1845 See details
Elizabeth Robertson's Diary - Norfolk Island 1845
Life on Norfolk Island in 1845 from a woman's perspective - Elizabeth White Robertson.
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Encountering Terra Australis See details
Encountering Terra Australis
The Australian voyages of Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders.
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