Non-fiction

A Thematic History of West Hobart – Godden Mackay Logan

Published in 2002 and based on work conducted by the author to assist in the Hobart Council Heritage Review of 2000.

Softcover, perfect bound, 66 pages. Numerous illustrations, town style plans etc to support the narrative.

A fairly rapid travel through the year since the beginning of European settlement – what surprised us was how quickly the area became developed and how active it must have been around the still beautiful “Crescent”

West Hobart – some history and not a bad place to “hang out”

$30.00

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Bass Strait Crossing – the Shipping History – David Hopkins

This is a fine copy of the second printing of David Hopkins delightful work on the ships that have crossed the Bass Strait.

Self published, set and with artwork and illustration by the author. Published in 1997.

Large format softcover, 36 pages, with a hundred or more images from period photographs. An enjoyable book for those with an interested – the trading ketches are our favourite – something special about their “romantic” rigging.

Surprise your friends with you knowledge of the Bass Strait and its history of shipping from the beginning to the modern (ish) days. No planning issues encountered!

$30.00

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Spy Catcher – Peter Wright – Former Assistant Director MI5

The greatest real expose of the activities of MI5 from technically adept Peter wright.

There was Philby and the “thing” the secret of all secret devices hidden within the American Great Seal. The bugging of the Egyptian cypher room. His greatest claim however was that Sir Roger Hollis was the “Fifth Man”.

Wright retired to Cygnet, Tasmania where he and his wife had a few acres and raised Arabian horses.

The struggle to get published and the various political heaviness are well understood.

Published by Heinemann in Australia in 1987, a first edition. Octavo, 392 pages, illustrated from photographs. Original owner name on end paper, closed tear top dust jacket otherwise a nice copy of this important book.

Spy Catcher – They couldn’t stop him …..

$35.00

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Kim Philby and other Russian Spy Celebrities – Russian Stamp Set 1990

A complete set of five mint stamps issued in Russia in 1990.

Each with a portrait of a member of the espionage elite. Rodolf Abel (1903-1971); Konon Molody (1922-1970); Vaupshascov (1899-1976); Kudrya (1912-1942) and …

“was he, or wasn’t he?” Harold “Kim” Philby.

Nicknamed “Kim” after the Rudyard Kipling boy hero spy – should have been a clue!

If you don’t know who Kim Philby is we are guessing you won’t want to buy this set …

Postage likely to be reduced on final billing.

Unusual item for those undercover agents out there …

$25.00

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Prepared Microscope Slide – Whole Worker Bee – 100 Year Old

I fine example by H.W.H. Darlaston.

Herbert William Hutton Darlaston (1867-1949) operated as a commercial microscope slide mounter from his house in Birchfield, Birmingham, England from 1895 until the 1925.

Regarded as a specialist in insect slides of high quality. He is known to have prepared whole insect slides for the distinguished entomologist Miriam Rothschild.

Postage likely to be reduced on final billing dependent on buyer location.

Worker Bee – fine example by insect expert Darlaston

$80.00

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Stilbite – Western India – ex Werner Hoch Collection

A sizeable and attractive lump of stilbite from Vaijapur, Aurangabad District, Maharashtra, India.

We are told from whence it came that it was originally part of the Verner Hoch collection, the main part of which is now in the Natural History Museum, Vienna.

Stilbite [after Greek – stilbein “to shine”] is a tectosilicate part of the zeolite group of minerals. Formed often in a basaltic volcanic environment.

This example is characteristic of it’s found location [it takes various forms in different parts of the World – Iceland, Scotland etc]. Here we have a peach/ pink hue and a translucent characteristic. The large form is often described as a “bow tie” and you can see why. This is a particularly good example with larger forms sitting on a bed of crystals on the host structure.

13cm by 8cm by 6cm weighing 330gm.

Super example of Stilbite with dominant bow-tie structure – nice hue

$95.00

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A Thematic History of West Hobart – Godden Mackay Logan

Bass Strait Crossing – the Shipping History – David Hopkins

Spy Catcher – Peter Wright – Former Assistant Director MI5

Kim Philby and other Russian Spy Celebrities – Russian Stamp Set 1990

Prepared Microscope Slide – Whole Worker Bee – 100 Year Old

Stilbite – Western India – ex Werner Hoch Collection

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