The Evandale Subscription Library in the north of Tasmania is unique in that its 19th century manuscript catalogue of books and loans register has survived.
A collection of essays by Australian and international historians examining George Augustus Robinson's Friendly Mission — the journals Robinson kept during his time among the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land from 1829 to 1834, edited by N.J.B. Plomley and republished in a second edition in 2008.
A history of real tennis (also known as royal tennis) in Australia, beginning with the establishment of Australia's first court on Davey Street, Hobart in 1874 by Samuel Smith Travers — the author's ancestor — who went on to write Australia's first treatise on the sport in 1875. Real tennis is the ancient predecessor of modern lawn tennis, played on an enclosed court with an irregular shape and rules that trace back to medieval France and Henry VIII's England.
![Real Tennis in Hobart – The Pioneers | Richard Travers | 2021 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/real-tennis-in-hobart-K1X4Fq.png "Real Tennis in Hobart – The Pioneers | Richard Travers | 2021 [NEW – SC]")
