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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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History

Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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Damania See details
Damania
A small vintage book about the Hydro-Electric Commission, the environment and government in Tasmania.
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Dogs in Van Diemen's Land See details
Dogs in Van Diemen's Land
The adorable, the mischievous and the downright nasty dogs of early Tasmania.
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Don Norman's Photographs of Hobart Old & New See details
Don Norman's Photographs of Hobart Old & New
Published in 1985, this book puts contemporary photos of key aspects of Hobart side by side with early historic photos of the same.
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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 | Roy Smith | 1969 [USED – HCDJ – Good] See details
Early Tasmanian Bridges | Roy Smith | 1969 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

Roy Smith's history of the early masonry bridges built in Van Diemen's Land — examining their origins, construction and their remarkable resistance to Tasmanian flood events over more than a century of service. The bridges documented include the convict-built stone bridges that still stand across the island — the Ross Bridge (1836), the Richmond Bridge (1823, the oldest bridge in Australia still in use), and the Red Bridge in Campbell Town (1838), directly beside which The Book Cellar now operates.

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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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