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  • The Native Tribes of Tasmania – J.E. Calder

    The Native Tribes of Tasmania – J.E. Calder

    Impossible to get as an original Hobart 1875 edition and this facsimile by Fullers, Hobart produced in 1972 is not in sight on any web engine, online bookshop.

    Octavo, 115 pages plus appendix, a true facsimile of the original. Owners bookplate on front paste down.

    Full Title explains … Some Account of the War, Extirpation, Habits etc of the Native Tribes of Tasmania. So much about the terrible going on. Limited page numbers belies the extent of the content given the small print copied from the period.

    Native Tribes the word from 1875 on the War.

    $80.00

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  • Sketch of the History of  Van Diemen’s Land – James Bischoff

    Sketch of the History of Van Diemen’s Land – James Bischoff

    Originally published by John Richardson, London, 1832. This is from Australiana Facsimile Editions published in Adelaide in 1967. A scarce edition of this series maybe not as mainstream as some of the others.

    First in this form 260 pages including the appendices, large folding coloured map by John Arrowsmith, frontispiece and one other plate, both also by Arrowsmith, of the Van Diemen’s Land Company’s establishments at Circular Head and Emu Bay.

    Original faux leather binding, gilt titles to spine, very clean, large folding map in super condition. The map is far far too big to scan on our A3 scanner so we have just done a bit of unfolded bit so you can see the quality.

    An important book which Bischoff intended for distribution to the Van Diemen’s Land Company shareholders and to encourage potential investors. In it he reprints several of the Company’s yearly reports, including the important third report of 1828, and in full the exploration journals of Alexander Goldie, Henry Hellyer and Joseph Fossey, which were included in an appendix to the third report. An important appendix includes Lt-Governor Arthur’s dispatches on the Aborigines and their growing resistance to the European settlement

    Good facsimile of Bischoff’s important early work on Van Diemen’s Land

    $90.00

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  • Lachlan Macquarie – Governor of New South Wales – Journals of his Tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land 1810-1822

    Lachlan Macquarie – Governor of New South Wales – Journals of his Tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land 1810-1822

    A special and substantial book about the activities of this energetic and decisive Governor. Without his tour of Van Diemen’s Land the north of Tasmania would have ended in ruins.

    Published by the Library of Australian History in 1979. Large octavo, 280 pages. Tipped in colour portrait of the great man and 10 other tipped in colour plates. Three large folding maps and facsimile page. A sumptuous production in very good condition.

    Printed from the original manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library. Illustrations from the Mitchell collection and the Dixon Library.

    Macquarie a leader ahead of hid time – so much accomplished.

    $60.00

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  • The Tasmanian Trading Ketch – Garry Kerr

    The Tasmanian Trading Ketch – Garry Kerr

    A Voyager favourite – what better looking boat?

    Effectively self published in 1987. Small quarto, 179 pages, with very special illustrations of images and technical drawings of these fine craft, end paper charts. A very good copy.

    The author was a crayfisherman who developed an interesting in writing from oral history – what a super combination.

    Super sections on the design, hull form, lofting and building. Sails and sailing follow with yarns about plying there trade and the showing at regattas. And, life on board and the inevitable mishaps.

    Wonderful book on a wonderful vessel by a crayfisherman no less.

    $40.00

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  • Land Settlement in Early Tasmania – Sharon Morgan

    Land Settlement in Early Tasmania – Sharon Morgan

    Published by Cambridge University Press in 1992. Large octavo, 212 pages, illustrated and a fine copy.

    The author has used original letters and diaries as well as Government records and other historical documents to build a reliable picture of the use of land in Tasmania during the early period of Colonialisation. In detail we get to understand the lot of early settlers, their conflicts, pastimes, successes and failures and their impact and attitude to the environment.

    Morgan explores the impact of Colonialisation on the landscape of Tasmania

    $50.00

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  • The Invention of Terra Nullius – Historical and Legal Fictions on the Foundation of Australia. – Michael Connor

    The Invention of Terra Nullius – Historical and Legal Fictions on the Foundation of Australia. – Michael Connor

    Hobart author Michael Connor has a varied career including teaching in North Africa and management at the famous Sadler’s Wells Theatre. Then he decided to broaden his education in Colonial History at James Cook University and then a PhD in Colonial History at the University of Tasmania.

    Published by Macleay Press Sydney in 2005. Octavo, 361 pages, a super fine copy. Very hard to find must have had a very small print run.

    This book explores the concept of Terra Nullius “Land belonging to no-one” a principal applied not only in Australia but in many parts of the World subject to colonisation. This is not intended, we believe, to be a provoking works … its sets out the facts and issues comprehensively and there are clues to its direction from the first paragraph.

    A special book about an important and now in our faces subject. Worth reading with an open and inquisitive mind.

    The defining principal [or was it] now struggling to get support albeit rather late

    $60.00

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