Tasmania

  • A word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal languages

    # 46885

    PLOMLEY, N. J. B. (Norman James Brian)

    A word-list of the Tasmanian Aboriginal languages

    Launceston, Tas. : N.J.B. Plomley in association with the Government of Tasmania, 1976. Large octavo (255 x 180 mm), cloth-covered boards in pictorial dust jacket (front panel a trifle worn at top edge); endpaper maps; xv, 486 pp, map; internally unmarked, an excellent copy. Plomley’s scholarly work on Tasmanian Aboriginal languages was compiled over twenty-five years …

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  • Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship "Northfleet", lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.

    # 46767

    THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY

    Carte de visite commemorating Captain Edward Knowles and the emigrant ship “Northfleet”, lost in the English Channel on 22 January 1873 en route to Hobart, Tasmania.

    Albumen print photograph, 102 x 63 mm (mount); lower margin recto with printed caption: ‘Captain Knowles. Lost in the Northfleet off Dunganess, Jan. 22 1873’; verso with The London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company’s backmark; the print has a couple of light marks; the verso of the mount has some residual glue marks at the edges. …

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  • Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.

    # 46499

    TURNER, John

    Joseph Lycett. Governor Macquarie’s convict artist.

    Newcastle : Hunter History Publications, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 148, illustrated, light handling marks, a very good copy. A detailed study of Lycett.

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  • The poetical works of Robert Burns. Printed for the booksellers in Australia, 1832.

    # 44524

    BURNS, Robert (1759-1796)

    The poetical works of Robert Burns. Printed for the booksellers in Australia, 1832.

    [Edinburgh?] : s.n., 1832. Small octavo (177 x 110 mm), later black morocco, spine ruled and lettered in gilt;  woodcut frontispiece portrait of the poet from Taylor’s Authenticated Picture, title-page with vignette woodcut of Tam O’Shanter and Souter Johnny captioned His ancient trusty drouthy crony, pp. ix, [1 blank], xiv, 284, 23 (glossary); front free-endpaper with original …

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  • Santa Claus and the shadow

    # 29410

    HUDSPETH, B. M.

    Santa Claus and the shadow

    Sydney : S. T. Leigh & Co., circa 1892. Quarto, lithographed papered boards, lithographed title page (reproducing the cover). pp. 69, text in sepia with border rule, a fine copy. A collection of Christmas stories for children by  ‘Miss B..M. Hudspeth, of Hobart, a lady who has already favourably established her name as an acceptable contributor to current Australian …

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  • Silver Bank Gum Tree, ab[out] 300 f. high. (a study). Kangaroo Hollow, Tasmania. 1 February 1854.

    # 44054

    SWAINSON, William (1789-1855)

    Silver Bank Gum Tree, ab[out] 300 f. high. (a study). Kangaroo Hollow, Tasmania. 1 February 1854.

    [Title from artist’s caption]. Graphite on paper, 200 x 140 mm, initialed in pencil l.l. ‘W. S.’, with general location and date below ‘Tasmania 1 Feb 1854’; captioned in pencil l.r. ‘Silver Bank Gum Tree ab[out] 300 f. high. Kangaroo Hollow. (A study)’; artist’s numbering in pencil ‘209’; laid down on card and tipped onto …

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  • Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand in 1642.

    # 44894

    TASMAN, Abel Janszoon (1603 - 1659)

    Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand in 1642.

    With documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644 being photo-lithographic facsimiles of the original manuscript in the colonial archives at The Hague with an English translation and facsimiles of original maps to to which are added life and labours of Abel Janszoon Tasman by J. E. Heeres, Ll. D. Professor at the Dutch …

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  • Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones

    # 44855

    GOOS, Pieter

    Pascaerte vande Zuyd-Zee tussche California, en Ilhas de Ladrones

    Amsterdam : Pieter Goos, op’t Waater inde Vergulde Zeespiegel, 1666. 430 x 538 mm (image), 465 x 555 mm (sheet), had coloured, decorative cartouche, a fine example. A fine example of Pieter Goos’ sea chart of the Pacific Ocean. Extending from Van Diemen’s Land to Japan, and from New Zealand to California, it significantly notes discoveries …

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  • Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en 't Eylandt California

    # 44856

    OTTENS, Reinier (1698 - 1750); de WIT, Frederik (1629 - 1706)

    Magnum Mare del Zur cum Insula California. De Groote Zuyd-Zee en ‘t Eylandt California

    Amsterdam : [R. & I. Ottens, 1745]. Copperplate engraving, 490 x 560 mm (image); 565 x 665 mm (sheet), hand coloured, small repair to tear in cartouche and a couple of pinholes, else fine. A striking example of Reiner and Joshua Ottens’ chart of the Pacific Ocean, an updated state of Frederick De Wit’s chart …

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  • A hundred years of yachting

    # 45146

    WEBSTER, E. H. (Edwin Herbert), 1864-1947; NORMAN, L. (Leslie)

    A hundred years of yachting

    / compiled by E. H. Webster and L. Norman. Hobart : Printed by J. Walch, 1936. “Issued under the auspices of the Government of Tasmania, the Hobart Marine Board, and the Hobart City Council.” Octavo, publisher’s lettered blue cloth over boards, spine a little sunned, endpapers with mild foxing, pp 256, b/w photographic illustrations, folding …

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  • Studio portrait of Pangernowidedic (Bessy Clarke), William Lanne, Trugernanner (Truganini), and Wapperty. Hobart Town, 1864.

    # 35730

    CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (publisher); FRITH, Henry Albert (active in Australia 1858-1867) (photographer, attributed)

    Studio portrait of Pangernowidedic (Bessy Clarke), William Lanne, Trugernanner (Truganini), and Wapperty. Hobart Town, 1864.

    [Copy print of a photograph taken in the studio of Henry Albert Frith in 1864]. Hobart : Samuel Clifford, [circa 1867]. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 74 x 70 mm (arched-top format), on yellow card mount 84 x 175 mm; verso has printed label ‘Views in Tasmania. / S. Clifford, Photographer, Hobart Town’, with contemporary manuscript …

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  • The history of the island of Van Diemen's Land, from the year 1824 to 1835 inclusive

    # 41841

    [MELVILLE, Henry (1799 - 1873)]

    The history of the island of Van Diemen’s Land, from the year 1824 to 1835 inclusive

    To which is added, a few words on prison discipline. London : Smith and Elder, 1835 (printed by H. Melville in Hobart-Town, Van Diemen’s Land). Octavo, contemporary straight-grained green morocco, spine ruled in gilt, expertly rebacked, later endpapers; pp. [iv]; 276; occasional spotting, a very good example. The very rare separate issue of the first …

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  • Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions

    # 44499

    BARTHOLOMEW, J[ohn], W. HUGHES, and Sidney HALL (engravers)

    Atlas of Australia with all the Gold Regions

    A series of maps from the latest and best authorities. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, c. 1853. Quarto, later gilt-lettered cloth, containing six hand-coloured engraved maps (five double page, and one folding) of the gold regions of Australia, a few pale stains, short tape repair to the margin of the first map, and a …

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  • [MAORI LANGUAGE] Ko te tuarua o nga pukapuka waki; hei wakakite atu i nga henga a te Hahi o Roma.

    # 42355

    TE AROHA PONO [COLENSO, William 1811-1899]

    [MAORI LANGUAGE] Ko te tuarua o nga pukapuka waki; hei wakakite atu i nga henga a te Hahi o Roma.

    Hopataone [Hobart Town] : He mea ta i te Perehi o te Watahaoha ratou ko nga teina [printed by R. S. Waterhouse and Brothers], 1840. Small octavo (180 x 110 mm), recent stitched marbled wrappers; pp. 24; text in Māori; first leaf with small perforation to top margin, a lightly creased top corner and some mild …

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  • [INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    # 43015

    FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)

    [INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,

    aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …

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  • [TASMANIA; PORT PHILLIP] Studio portraits of Wimmera squatter Monckton Synnot (ca. 1864), his wife Anne (Wedge) Synnot (ca. 1870), and their seven children (1863).

    # 43443

    ROBERTS, W. F.; BOTTERILL, John; BATCHELDER & O'NEILL

    [TASMANIA; PORT PHILLIP] Studio portraits of Wimmera squatter Monckton Synnot (ca. 1864), his wife Anne (Wedge) Synnot (ca. 1870), and their seven children (1863).

    I. W. F. Roberts, Market Square, Geelong, photographer. [Probably taken on the same day in late 1863]. Seven albumen print studio portraits, in uniform carte de visite format. The seven young sitters are all identified in a fully contemporary hand on the versos as follows: Monckton Davy Synott (1854-1938), Jane Elizabeth Synott (1855-1933), Richard Walter …

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