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  • Resources of the Sea – Record of a Symposium arranged by the Royal Society of Tasmania

    Resources of the Sea – Record of a Symposium arranged by the Royal Society of Tasmania

    Published by the Society relating to a symposium held at Bicheno on the east Coat of Tasmania in 1974.

    Perfect bound 199 pages, decorated card covers. High standard and intensity narrative, numerous, charts, images, diagrams etc.

    Divided into non-biological [Physical setting; Scenic Margin; Minerals of the Ocean and Oil] – biological [Fisheries; Farming the Sea; Ecosystems]

    Whilst this is the 1970′s and the offshore oil industry is now well established, it is the sections on Minerals and Farming the Sea that we find particularly intriguing given that the former had gone into hibernation until Trump II came along and the latter is such a contested issue in Tasmania these days.

    In the minerals paper we have much on manganese and the various methods of harvesting at various depths of ocean … go for it we think … or maybe not?

    Resources of the Sea – a set of paper to look back on and look forward.

     

     

    $30.00

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  • Tasmanian Photographs – Rex Direen [with text by Bob Brown]

    Tasmanian Photographs – Rex Direen [with text by Bob Brown]

    Self-published by the photographer in 1988. Landscape soft cover, unpaginated, 73 photographs with Bob Brown’s introduction and notes on the photographs following. Good condition bar crease to lower right front cover

    One of our favourite photographic records probably because of the breadth of subjects – activism and activism against the activists [it is Tasmania]; landscapes to die for; people about their work and leisure [including the t-shirtless wet t-ship competition at Judbury] and a super image of a shirtless Geoff Dyer crouching as he completes one of his striking landscapes.

    Tasmanian photographic images, a broader story and special collection.

    $30.00

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    Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1896 – [Includes paper by Robert Etheridge Jnr on the Silurian Fossils of Montgomery, Govt Geologist]

    Printed by Davies Brothers, Hobart and issued in July 1896. Usual original presentation, octavo, perfect bound, xxviii pages of “Proceedings” followed by 100 pages of “Papers”. Appropriately illustrated, very good condition. Very clean and crisp internally.

    Distinguished geologist and paleontologist Robert Etheridge Jnr followed in the footsteps of his similarly distinguished scientific father. R.E. spent mots of his working life in Australia and his drawings of fossils are of the highest standard.

    Other papers include more geological works including microscopical studies of mineral thin sections [with plates] by the nicely named Twelvetrees; public health; fishes and a tribute to recently deceased Baron Ferdinand Von Mueller [with portrait].

    Interesting Tasmanian Royal Society P&P – 1896.

     

    $50.00

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    Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 1893 – [Includes catalogue of Tasmanian Minerals - Pettard]

    Printed at “The Mercury”, Hobart and issued in June 1894. Usual original presentation, octavo, perfect bound, xxvi pages of “Proceedings” followed by 219 pages of “Papers”. Appropriately illustrated, good condition albeit creases and chip to top corner of front wrapper. Very clean and crisp internally.

    W.F. Pettard’s 73-page catalogue of Tasmanian mineral and notes on their distribution commences the Papers. Pettard was a boot and shoe importer in Hobart and then Launceston. Other than that, he was a distinguished naturalist and scientist – he had a home laboratory to envy. He was an accomplished taxidermist and before coming to Tasmania too part in scientific explorations in the Solomons and New Guinea. This was his first mineral catalogue – he was to publish an update just before his death nearly twenty years later.  

    Other papers of interest include Geology around Lake St Clair; Glacial action in Tasmania; Notes on the Mt Lyell Mine; Rare fish; Fossil Flora etc

    Special papers on the minerals, geology and mines of Tasmania.

    $80.00

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  • The ABT Railway and Railways of the Lyell region [Tasmania] – Lou Rae

    The ABT Railway and Railways of the Lyell region [Tasmania] – Lou Rae

    This is no 130 of a limited number of 500 hardbound copies. Signed by the author and annotated to “Frank the man with a bit on the side” – wink wink humour. Self-published in 1994 at a standard above the usual self-publish. Very good condition albeit minor crease to dust jacket back.

    Folio presentation, 94 pages with near to two hundred images from period photographs [many coloured], good maps and diagrams.

    Lou Rae is the man when it comes to writing about Tasmanian railway systems and this one does him proud.

    Western Tasmania Mt Lyell Railways in all their glory – super book

    $70.00

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  • Francois Peron’s Natural History of Maria Island Tasmania. – Brian Plomley and Others

    Francois Peron’s Natural History of Maria Island Tasmania. – Brian Plomley and Others

    Another Plomley rarity we don’t expect to see again for a long time.

    Published as part of the Records of the Queen Victoria Museum in 1990.

    Soft cover, 50 pages, with charts etc all in fine condition.

    Baudin spent three days circumnavigation Maria Island in February 1802. Francois Peron was zoologist but also made meteorological, geomorphic, botanical observation – a multi faceted scientist was Peron.

    Peron knew his stuff when it came to Maria.

    $30.00

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