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This vintage TMAG booklet serves as an important mid-twentieth-century pictorial and historiographical record of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. It compiles historical commentary alongside archival photographic plates, sketches, and portraits from the museum's early collections.
A history of the Port of Launceston Authority and the development of shipping on the Tamar in northern Tasmania, by Sir Raymond Alfred Ferrall CBE (1906–2000) — a prominent Launceston businessman and Warden of the Port of Launceston Authority, for which he was made CBE in 1969.
British sealer John Scott arrived in Bass Strait in 1806 and had children with at least three Tasmanian Aboriginal women, fathering at least nine children before drowning off King Island in 1843. Scottish-born David Howie, appointed Constable of the Straits, patrolled Bass Strait and King Island; in 1845 he played a key role in the aftermath of the Cataraqui disaster. This book traces the lives and Tasmanian Aboriginal descendants of both men, drawing together family trees, John Scott's own diary, and the wider Bass Strait sealing community of the 19th century.
![The Student's Flora of Tasmania - the definitive reference work on Tasmania's flowering plants, Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4A | Winifred Curtis | 1956–1979 [USED – HC – 4-Volume Set]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/student-flora-set-VGOfGH.png "The Student's Flora of Tasmania - the definitive reference work on Tasmania's flowering plants, Parts 1, 2, 3 & 4A | Winifred Curtis | 1956–1979 [USED – HC – 4-Volume Set]")
Winifred Curtis (1905–2005), known as the matriarch of Tasmanian botany, began work on this reference at the Tasmanian Government's request in 1943. She produced what became the standard identification reference for Tasmania's flowering plants and conifers for nearly forty years. This set brings together Parts 1 (1956), 2 (1963), 3 (1967) and 4A, on orchids (1979).
![The Tamar Boats – A Complete Reference Book | Betty J. Percy | 1993 | [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-tamar-boats-hcdj-jMr0xx.png "The Tamar Boats – A Complete Reference Book | Betty J. Percy | 1993 | [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
A comprehensive reference to the privately built and owned boats launched from the banks of the Tamar River in northern Tasmania, written by Betty J. Percy and published by Foot & Playsted, Launceston in 1993. Percy documents over 750 craft — the vast majority privately owned, built by both professional and amateur boat builders.
