Tasmania

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

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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Vanished Fleets [Tasmania] – Alan Villiers

Published by the Cat & Fiddle Press, Hobart in 1974.

A special maritime history of Van Diemen’s Land by the knowledgeable Alan Villiers. Superbly illustrated.

Villiers himself crewed on the whale-ship Sir James Clark Ross into the Southern Ross Sea in 1923-24.

Covers Captain Kelly (see Voyager book on Kelly); The voyage of the “Woodman”; the loss of the “George III”; the adventure of the whaler “Essex” and Captain Tregurtha’s Log; Hobart Clippers and “Graveyard Island”.

The illustrations include – The “Royal William”; the “James Craig”; the “Hobart Regatta”; the “Fram” (Amundsen) in the Derwent; the “velocity” and the “Tasmanian Cape Horn Trader in Hard Weather”.

A smorgasbord of Tasmanian and cold water Sail

$50.00

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Tasmania’s North East – Loone

A 1981 re-issue of the near impossible to get 1920’s publication by the respected Loone.

Octavo, hardback printed in Launceston, 189 pages set as the original with period images etc. Fine copy, with a perfect dust jacket albeit we do not take to the modern design.

Loone was a pioneer of the area and a dignitary of Scottsdale. He sets out his story in discrete chapters that tell their own story. Much about the early settler’s explorations, the development of Scottsdale. Mining in the area and specifics of various finds good and bad. Forestry and agriculture. Early recollections of aboriginal identities.

Tasmanian North East one of the worlds best North East’s,

$50.00

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

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

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

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

Vanished Fleets [Tasmania] – Alan Villiers

Tasmania’s North East – Loone

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