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The complete six-volume set of The Endemic Flora of Tasmania — one of the most significant works of botanical art and science produced in Australia during the 20th century. The plates were painted by Margaret Stones, botanical artist to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, who spent years in Tasmania documenting the island's endemic plant species in watercolour. The accompanying text and ecological notes were written by Winifred Curtis, the foremost Tasmanian botanist of her era.

The primary source documents underlying John Thomas Bigge's 1822–1823 reports to the British Government on the state of New South Wales under Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Bigge was commissioned to investigate the running of the colony — its convict management, land grants, public works, and Macquarie's controversial policies — and his reports had significant consequences for the direction of Australian colonial administration.

Keith Windschuttle's controversial challenge to the accepted historiography of Tasmania's frontier period. Published in 2003, this first volume of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History focuses on Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1847 — covering the period of the Black War and the removal of the surviving Aboriginal population to Flinders Island.