Tasmania

Peaks and High Places [Tasmania] – Ian Boss-Walker

Well it had to be a “Walker” to put together such an amazing book.

Published in 1950 by the “Scenery Preservation Board” in 1950. Soft cover with a striking period style front cover, internally many charts of tracks and images from period photographs of the mountain scenes along the way.

For anyone planning a nowadays hike this would make an interesting reference to support you iphone or whatever. We particularly like when the mountain huts are listed we are given information on who built, them when and why …

Hiking in among the Tasmanian Peaks

$25.00

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The Cruise of the Freak – Mission to the Islands – the Missionary Voyages in Bass Strait of Canon Marcus Brownrigg 1872-1885 – Edited and introduced by Stephen Murray-Smith

Published by Foot and Playsted in 1987. Unusual style dust wrappered Soft cover, xxxv, ii, 244 pages, some illustrations, a fine copy.

The editor provides a lengthy and worthwhile introduction, including a list and biography/ context of the principal personalities.

This is a reprint of a rare and sought after 19thC voyage account. The original title being … The Cruise of the Freak – A narrative of a Visit to the Islands in Bass and Banks Straits with some Account of the Islands – this contains thirteen voyages in all

Not an unlucky number for Brownrigg.

$40.00

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The Marine Chronometers of the Baudin Expedition to Australia – 1800-1840 – Hilary King

A very professional offprint from the journal of Antiquarian Horology, 1977.

Softcover, largish format, 508-521, illustrations from charts, a view and a of course the chronometers which look so advanced for the time. Postage may be reduced on this item for domestic customers.

Of course like all of the scientific voyages of the time the use of these valuable accurate chronometers in order to calculate true longitude was as important as the creation of the internet in our time.

Here we have a special digested account of the voyage, the expedition timekeepers, their accounts, records and performance.

Baudin Expedition the use of the Chronometers.

$30.00

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The Tasmanians (The Story of a Doomed Race) – Robert Travers

First edition published in 1968 by Cassell Australia in very good condition. Octavo.243 pages, illustrated.

Travers’ honest account put down in some detail.

Starts with the people themselves, their supposed origins, their way of living, their taboos, their fragility. .

the arrival of the European explorers – Dutch, French and the English/ and then the convicts and settlers.

The drift of settler society .. bush rangers, sealers and the “wild men” of Hobart Town.

And, the War the Line and Robinson and the Banishment

$40.00

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Thomas Bock’s Portraits of the Tasmanian Aborigines – N.J.B. Plomley

A scarce works by the hard working uneven tempered Plomley. For years the provenance of various Bock portraits of the last full blood Tasmanian aborigines was a mystery. There is collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum Oxford and a few at the Royal Anthropological Society in the England as well as the private Fuller collection an two original at the Tasmanian Museum Hobart. Copies at the British Museum by Thomas’s son Alfred who also had a good hand but not quite as pater, similarly a raft of images at the Tasmanian Museum by Alfred and at the British Museum by J. Grey after T Bock.

Published by the Queen Victoria Museum Launceston and edited by their Direct Frank Ellis. Larger format card cover, 25 pages, 10 pages plates of the portraits. Super condition.

The care that Plomley made to unravel all of this is impressive. It involves collections made to the Franklin’s and the handwriting of Lady Franklin comes into play. And also a collection for G.A. Robinson who both befriended and rounded up the last of the race.

All up this is a most interesting and thorough piece of art investigation. If done today for sure there would be a television three part series all about it. Maybe someone should still do that!?

Thomas Bock’s Historic Paintings and the Mystery that Surrounds Them

$80.00

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[Tasmanian Photography] – The World of Olegas Truchanas – Max Angus

Published by the Olegas Truchanas Publication Committee, Hobart in 1975. First edition an in fine condition.

Quarto, 144 pages and 44 colour plates, 5 monochrome and 13 other illustrations including maps. A discrete gift inscription on the end papers … a very good copy in an excellent fine dust jacket.

Olegas Truchanas a brilliant wilderness photographer was drowned while canoeing in the Gordon River during the campaign to save Lake Pedder. This book was published by his friends under the art direction of Max Angus.

First edition of a special book about a special person

$60.00

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Peaks and High Places [Tasmania] – Ian Boss-Walker

The Cruise of the Freak – Mission to the Islands – the Missionary Voyages in Bass Strait of Canon Marcus Brownrigg 1872-1885 – Edited and introduced by Stephen Murray-Smith

The Marine Chronometers of the Baudin Expedition to Australia – 1800-1840 – Hilary King

The Tasmanians (The Story of a Doomed Race) – Robert Travers

Thomas Bock’s Portraits of the Tasmanian Aborigines – N.J.B. Plomley

[Tasmanian Photography] – The World of Olegas Truchanas – Max Angus

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