Tasmania and Van Diemens Land

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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Beaconsfield Tasmania – Town with a History – Coultman Smith

Soft cover self published by the author in 1978. A super history, a really good job done on the Tasmanian mining town by Coultman Smith. Very good condition bar the ghost of an old sticker front cover.

Perfect bound, 78 pages, illustrated throughout including pull-out town plan which helps you get around the text. We love the image of the author on the rear cover – fag in mouth and a good smile for an ex army Colonel.

We love it – and a special one for mining buffs.

Beaconsfield probably the best one.

$30.00

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Snakes and Lizards of Australia – Observer Book Series – David McPhee

Published by Methuen, Sydney in 1979, an exceptionally clean copy of this respected book about Australian snakes and lizards.

Pocket sized hardback, every snake and lizard accompanied by a good coloured image clear enough to actually identify the species [this clarity issue is a problem with mots other books on the subject].

The book commences with some general information on snakes and lizards but be warned that the treatment for snake bite is no longer the preferred method – keep up to date with that!

Our not so favourite – the red-bellied black snake that we used to see in our garden in Pullenvale west Brisbane

Snakes and Lizards a perfect combo.

$30.00

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History of Tasmania from its Discovery in 1642 to the Present Time [1884] – James Fenton – Faithful Facsimile

Originally published in Hobart in 1884 by Walch. This a faithful facsimile published by Melanie Publications, Hobart in 1978. A very good copy of a nicely produced book.

Octavo, 462 pages, large coloured folding map at front as in the original, illustrated. Patterned gold style endpapers, embossed clay cloth covered boards.

The large fold out map in excellent condition along with four coloured plates of aborigines including Jinny of Port Sorell, Timmy of the Eastern Coast, Truganini (the last of the aboriginals) and Jack native of Cape Grim.

This book is a cornerstone commentary on Tasmanian history and an excellent progression from West’s first comprehensive history of Tasmania published 30 year earlier.

Fenton’s Tasmania Essential Historical Account

$125.00

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Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania – 1910 [Important papers – the whole of “The Minerals of Tasmania (Updated) W.F. Pettard and various papers by Noetling of Aboriginal interest]

Printed at the “Examiner” Launceston, one of the more substantial volumes.

W.F. Pettard of Launceston had published the “Minerals of Tasmania” in the 1890. Here we have 223 pages devoted to his update published one year before his death. His collection of minerals was handed over to the Society.

Further papers of special interest by Fritz Noetling – The Antiquity of Man in Tasmania – interesting extrapolative maps of Tasmania with the Ocean receded various depths and the resultant connection to the mainland. More on Tronatta by Noetling [see 1909 edition]; the food of the Aborigines and their language of food.

Ritz presenting on the Rev Norman vocabulary studies is another good contribution to the history of Aboriginal language.

Original soft wrappers, 409 pages, well illustrated from scientific sketches, images from photographs, tables, charts etc – some fold out.

Noetling was a German born mining engineer and at this stage was an Officer of the Society. He has previously worked in India and produced a similar body of work there. His large collection of Tasmanian Tronattas is held by the Liepzig museum. Unfortunately, after the outbreak of WWI he was interned and after the war sent back to Germany.

Special papers of Aboriginal interest and the republication of Pettard’s Minerals.

$120.00

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Vanished Fleets [Tasmania] – Alan Villiers

Tasmania’s North East – Loone

Beaconsfield Tasmania – Town with a History – Coultman Smith

Snakes and Lizards of Australia – Observer Book Series – David McPhee

History of Tasmania from its Discovery in 1642 to the Present Time [1884] – James Fenton – Faithful Facsimile

Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania – 1910 [Important papers – the whole of “The Minerals of Tasmania (Updated) W.F. Pettard and various papers by Noetling of Aboriginal interest]

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