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From Convicts to Computers - Tasmanian Supreme Court
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Two hundred years of the Tasmanian Supreme Court - a history by Justice Stephen Estcourt AM.

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The Tasmania Gold Mining & Quartz Crushing Company
Added: May 5, 2024
 
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The history of a magnificent gold mine at Beaconsfield 1877-1903.

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From Horses to Horse Power
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A nostalgic photographic exploration of Tasmania's transportation evolution from horses to horse power.

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

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A Different View of Hobart - Bank Arcade building
 
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Peeling back the layers of the Bank Arcade Building. Signed

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Mortmain - Facsimile collection of documents from Van Diemen's Land convict colony
 
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Mortmain - A collection of choice petitions, memorials and letters of protest and request from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land; written by divers persons, both eminent and lowly, and collected and transcribed from the originals by Eustace FitzSymonds, with numerous pages of the manuscripts shewn in facsimile. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land
 
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This is a 1967 facsimile reprint of P.E.de Strzelecki's 1845 Physical Description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land accompanied by a geological map, sections and diagrams and figures of the organic remains. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Down Wapping - Hobart's vanished Wapping and Old Wharf districts
 
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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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Lifeblood - Tasmania's Hydro Power
 
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Tasmania generates more electricity per head of population than any place in the world except Norway, and 99% of that power is generated from clean, self-renewing water.

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150 Years of Railways in Tasmania - hardcover
 
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A comprehensive and well illustrated history of Tasmanian railways.

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Enterprise, Risk and Ruin - hardcover
 
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The story of how the stagecoach developed from a small cottage industry to the bustling enterprise that played such a key role in the economic development of the colony of Van Diemen's Land and subsequently Tasmania.

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Persistence Pays - Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal Hardcover
 
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Persistence Pays tells of the discovery of Dr William Russ Pugh's log and journal of his 1835 voyage from England to New Holland.

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From Convicts to Computers - Tasmanian Supreme Court
 
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Two hundred years of the Tasmanian Supreme Court - a history by Justice Stephen Estcourt AM.

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Letters from Hobart 1889-1892 James Backhouse Walker
 
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The letters of noted Hobart lawyer and historian, James Backhouse Walker, to his sister in Europe over a four year period in the late nineteenth century.

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