Tasmania

Lachlan Macquarie – Governor of New South Wales – Journals of his Tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land 1810-1822

A special and substantial book about the activities of this energetic and decisive Governor. Without his tour of Van Diemen’s Land the north of Tasmania would have ended in ruins.

Published by the Library of Australian History in 1979. Large octavo, 280 pages. Tipped in colour portrait of the great man and 10 other tipped in colour plates. Three large folding maps and facsimile page. A sumptuous production in very good condition.

Printed from the original manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library. Illustrations from the Mitchell collection and the Dixon Library.

Macquarie a leader ahead of hid time – so much accomplished.

$60.00

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The Tasmanian Trading Ketch – Garry Kerr

A Voyager favourite – what better looking boat?

Effectively self published in 1987. Small quarto, 179 pages, with very special illustrations of images and technical drawings of these fine craft, end paper charts. A very good copy.

The author was a crayfisherman who developed an interesting in writing from oral history – what a super combination.

Super sections on the design, hull form, lofting and building. Sails and sailing follow with yarns about plying there trade and the showing at regattas. And, life on board and the inevitable mishaps.

Wonderful book on a wonderful vessel by a crayfisherman no less.

$40.00

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Land Settlement in Early Tasmania – Sharon Morgan

Published by Cambridge University Press in 1992. Large octavo, 212 pages, illustrated and a fine copy.

The author has used original letters and diaries as well as Government records and other historical documents to build a reliable picture of the use of land in Tasmania during the early period of Colonialisation. In detail we get to understand the lot of early settlers, their conflicts, pastimes, successes and failures and their impact and attitude to the environment.

Morgan explores the impact of Colonialisation on the landscape of Tasmania

$50.00

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The Invention of Terra Nullius – Historical and Legal Fictions on the Foundation of Australia. – Michael Connor

Hobart author Michael Connor has a varied career including teaching in North Africa and management at the famous Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Then he decided to broaden his education in Colonial History at James Cook University and then a PhD in Colonial History at the University of Tasmania.

Published by Macleay Press Sydney in 2005. Octavo, 361 pages, a super fine copy. Very hard to find must have had a very small print run.

This book explores the concept of Terra Nullius “Land belonging to no-one” a principal applied not only in Australia but in many parts of the World subject to colonisation. This is not intended, we believe, to be a provoking works … its sets out the facts and issues comprehensively and there are clues to its direction from the first paragraph.

A special book about an important and now in our faces subject. Worth reading with an open and inquisitive mind.

The defining principal [or was it] now struggling to get support albeit rather late

$60.00

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Varieties of Vice-Regal Life – Edited by Richard Davis and Stefan Petrow.

Published by the Tasmanian Historical Research Association in 2004. Signed nicely by the editors. Largeish softcover of substance, 298 pages, nicely produced.

Thomas Denison arrived in Hobart in 1847 to become Governor .. this is a comprehensive compilation of the correspondence he entered into and also that of his wife Lady Caroline Denison. The editors have added many helpful notes and interpretations which make the whole highly informative regrading that period of Tasmanian History.

Personal, full and interesting accounts of the day through correspondence … an art form now lost.

Tasmanian History wrapped up in letters ..

$30.00

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Inscriptions in Stone – St David’s Burial Ground (Hobart) 1804-1872 – Compiled by Richard Lord

First edition 1976. Number 215 of 1000 copies.

Published by St David’s Battery Point in 1976. Small octavo, 210 pages, frontispiece of Robert Knopwood astride his horse with dog. Very good copy.

A unique record of early Hobart town from the headstones of the first cemetery. Many that have visited Hobart have spent time reading the gravestones at St David’s. It is impossible not to come away with a sense of perspective on both old and modern life.

Sadness and triumph reflected in stone and here recorded in greater depth with through research (four years in the making).

There is nothing morbid about this book it is in fact a celebration of the first European’s to grace Tasmanian shores.

Graveyard delight (well it’s a special one) from Hobart.

$60.00

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Lachlan Macquarie – Governor of New South Wales – Journals of his Tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land 1810-1822

The Tasmanian Trading Ketch – Garry Kerr

Land Settlement in Early Tasmania – Sharon Morgan

The Invention of Terra Nullius – Historical and Legal Fictions on the Foundation of Australia. – Michael Connor

Varieties of Vice-Regal Life – Edited by Richard Davis and Stefan Petrow.

Inscriptions in Stone – St David’s Burial Ground (Hobart) 1804-1872 – Compiled by Richard Lord

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