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FIRST PUBLISHED: Melbourne, Georgian House, 1951. First edition. Illustrated throughout with full-page black and white photographs by Norman Taylor, this book covers Wigram's fishing on Tasmania's rivers, including the Macquarie, Liffey and St Patrick's Rivers and the Break O'Day district.
![The Usurper – Jorgen Jorgenson and His Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780–1841 | Dan Sprod | 2001 [NEW – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-usurper-Yf0HeC.png "The Usurper – Jorgen Jorgenson and His Turbulent Life in Iceland and Van Diemen's Land 1780–1841 | Dan Sprod | 2001 [NEW – HCDJ]")
Dan Sprod's biography of Jorgen Jorgenson — one of the most extraordinary figures in Tasmanian history, and arguably in world history of the period. The Usurper is the definitive biography — 718 pages, fully indexed, including the full text of Jorgenson's own account of the Iceland 'revolution.'
Compiled, printed and published by Henry Melville, editor of the Hobart Town Colonial Times and a persistent critic of Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur's administration. Melville printed the Van Diemen's Land Annual from his Colonial Times office each year from 1831 to 1837; this 1982 Melanie Publications facsimile, numbered 129 of 200 copies, reproduces the 1834 edition
![The Van Diemen's Land Edition of the Pickwick Papers – A Bibliographical Study | Clifford Craig | 1973 | Limited Edition No. 24/150 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/vdl-pickwick-papers-NWDaIK.png "The Van Diemen's Land Edition of the Pickwick Papers – A Bibliographical Study | Clifford Craig | 1973 | Limited Edition No. 24/150 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]")
Clifford Craig's bibliographical study of one of the most extraordinary episodes in early Australian publishing — the unauthorised "pirated" Van Diemen's Land edition of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, printed in Launceston by Henry Dowling between 1838 and 1839, while Dickens's original London serial publication was still being released.
