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  • Port Arthur – The Journal of Charles O’Hara Booth – Commandant of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement.

    Port Arthur – The Journal of Charles O’Hara Booth – Commandant of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement.

    A hard to find Tasmanian production. Published by the Tasmanian Historical Research Association in 1981.

    Slightly larger octavo, 298 pages, illustrated and a super fine copy

    Booth kept his almost daily diary for 23 years so there is so much about Port Arthur to make it the fundamental record of the goings on in the penal establishment.

    Real diary makes for interesting reading

    $60.00

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  • The Discovery of Tasmania – H.G. Taylor – Published Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart 1973.

    The Discovery of Tasmania – H.G. Taylor – Published Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart 1973.

    A well researched work of 177 pages including the useful index. Illustrated with portraits of the Explorers.

    Covering the period from Tasman (1642) to Baudin (1804) and embracing Du Fresne, Furneaux, Cook, Bligh, Cox, D’Entrecasteaux, Hayes, Flinders and Bass.

    Much of the content referenced to official log and journals.

    A good introduction for the serious historian

    $40.00

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  • Marion Dufresne – An Officer of the Blue – South Sea Explorer 1724-1772 – Edward Duyker

    Marion Dufresne – An Officer of the Blue – South Sea Explorer 1724-1772 – Edward Duyker

    The French Explorer who was the first to encounter Tasmanian Aborigines and was a precursor to the voyages of La Perouse, d’Entrecasteaux, Baudin and Dumont d’Urville.

    This book is traces his life in incredible detail, as one would expect from author Duyker. Chronologies, references, bibliographies make this a first source.

    Dufresne from start to finish

    $70.00

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  • Beaconsfield Gold [Tasmania] – Janet Kerrison

    Beaconsfield Gold [Tasmania] – Janet Kerrison

    Published a few time by the local community Rotarians. This edition 1981. Card covers, unpaginated but 45 pages, illustrated nicely from historic images.

    Set before the re-opening of the mine and the later terrible accident which culminated in maybe the greatest Australian mine survival story.

    Starting with the gold rush in 1877 to the delightfully named Brandy Creek … by the 1890’s a substantial mine was in operation, with its enormous 180 foot chimney stack. The mining technology in place by the turn of the century was second to none.

    As with many mines, reserves became depleted and the mine was wound down during WWI. Locals rumours abounded for years that there was a high grade parallel lode. So true that after this publication the mine was re-opened as mentioned above … and then again.

    Mailing costs will be reduced on this item

    Beaconsfield Gold – the back history and it’s significant

    $30.00

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  • Tasmanian Devil – Unique and Threatened Animal – Owen and Pemberton

    Tasmanian Devil – Unique and Threatened Animal – Owen and Pemberton

    A modern book by our standards .. we selected in for its pedigree .. published by the Natural History Museum, London … housed in a building that Voyager would like to make home .. and the subject the much misunderstood and threatened Tasmanian Devil.

    Octavo, 225 pages, illustrated throughout, a fine copy.

    The “Devil” a robust little marsupial now restricted to the island of Tasmania and for some time threatened by a mysterious cancer … and sadly humans in motor cars who just don’t take enough care … next time you see the sign slow down.

    The only boo really on the Tasmanian Devil and a good one.

    $30.00

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    Geology in Australia [Good Tasmanian Content] – Stillwell Anniversary Volume – The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy – 1958.

    This special volume was dedicated to one of Australia’s greatest geologists Frank Leslie Stillwell on his 70th birthday.

    Hardbound octavo, 302 pages. After a brief biography of Stillwell … 16 discrete geological reports of substance most illustrated with fold out charts and diagrams. Rubbed and worn on spine edges, very clean inside and firmly bound, a pretty good copy

    Includes the mineralisation of the Gondwana Shield. Tellurides and Selenides at the Great Boulder Mine Kalgoorlie.

    Various Tasmanian reports .. The Mineralised Rift Valleys of Tasmania; Diamond drill deflection at Rosebery; Nickel Mineralisation in Western Tasmania and A History of Geological Thought at Mount Lyell.

    Elsewhere includes Uranium in the Northern Territory; Galena in Western Australia and a super report on the geology of Cockatoo Island at Yampi Sound WA.

    Special Geological Edition – Wide ranging content with good contribution re Tasmania.

    $70.00

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