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Furnishing Van Diemen's Land – Tasmanian Furniture of the Early Colonial Period 1803–1870 | Peter Hughes | 2026 [NEW – Large HCDJ]
Added: Jul 15, 2026

Peter Hughes's comprehensive study of furniture made in Van Diemen's Land during the early colonial period — the most thorough treatment of this subject since Craig, Fahy and Robertson's Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (1972).


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The Enigmatic Art of the Ross Bridge Tasmania | Dr Jennie Jackson | 2026 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]
Added: Mar 26, 2026

A close study of the 186 carved decorations on the Ross Bridge — the convict-built sandstone bridge that has spanned the Macquarie River at Ross since 1836, and one of the most visited historic sites in Tasmania. The carvings were the work of Daniel Herbert, a transported convict who was a stonemason by trade.


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Thomas Bock's Portraits of the Tasmanian Aborigines - N.J.B. Plomley's scholarly study, QVMAG New Series No. 18 | 1965 [USED – SC – Booklet]
Added: Sep 12, 2026

A scholarly paper by N.J.B. Plomley, a leading historian of Tasmanian Aboriginal historical sources, examining the portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people painted by Thomas Bock — a transported convict artist who went on to become a respected society portraitist in colonial Hobart.


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Tasmanian Photographer from the John Watt Beattie Collection
A book showcasing a selection of Beattie's best photographs of Tasmania from the turn of the 20th century, including those taken during a trip to Norfolk Island in 1906.

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Tasmanian Photographers 1840-1940 - A-Z directory for identifying & dating Tasmanian studio photographs | Chris Long, ed. Gillian Winter | 1995 [USED – SC]

An A to Z directory of photographers working in Tasmania between 1840 and 1940. A standard reference used by genealogists, collectors and researchers to identify and date old Tasmanian studio photographs by their photographer or studio mountboard.


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Tasmanian Promissory Notes by Roger V McNeice

A study of Tasmania's promissory notes, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs.


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Tasmanian Visions - the definitive study of Tasmania's landscape in writing, art and photography | Roslynn D. Haynes | 2006 [USED – HC]

A comprehensive study of how the Tasmanian landscape has been seen and represented — through history, fiction, art, film and the accounts of travellers — by Roslynn Haynes, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and author of around ten books spanning literature, art and science.  Still widely cited today in academic scholarship, the book traces themes from early colonial "picturesque" landscape painting through to the "Tasmanian Gothic" of prison narratives and contemporary film.


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The Art of Apple Branding | Cowles & Walker | Award-Winning Tasmanian Apple Label History | 2005 [USED – HCDJ]

Christopher Cowles, former Studio Head of Graphic Design at the Tasmanian School of Art, and David Walker, a professional photographer and librarian at the Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office, spent 15 years researching this study of the paper labels once pasted onto wooden apple crates for export, at a time when Tasmania was known internationally as "the Apple Isle."


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The Art of John Glover (John McPhee) - Early Tasmanian Landscape History - 1980 Hardcover (Used)

This definitive biographical and art history volume provides a rich, comprehensive analysis of the life and legacy of John Glover, one of Australia’s most celebrated colonial landscape painters. Written by renowned curator John McPhee, the text chronicles Glover's 1829 emigration from Britain to Van Diemen's Land, exploring how his artistic style adapted to the unique light and form of the northern Tasmanian environment.


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The Art of Science Nicholas Baudin's Voyagers 1800-1804
At the dawn of the 19th century, French navigator Nicolas Baudin led two ships carrying 22 scientists and more than 230 officers and crew on a three-and-a-half-year voyage to the 'Southern Lands', charting coasts, studying the natural environment and recording encounters with indigenous peoples.

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The Artist & the Fly Fisher
A book of Pieter Zaadstra's paintings and sketches capturing a fly-fisher's life in Tasmania.

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The Book of Q - an art book from Queenstown by printmaker Raymond Arnold's PressWEST | 2026 [NEW – HCDJ]

An art book from PressWEST, the Queenstown creative lab and printmaking workshop founded by Raymond Arnold.


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The Caravan Moves On - paintings by Elizabeth Barsham
New art from Tasmania.

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