Tasmania
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# 24691
BREWIN, Robert (editor)
Welcome words : Missionary annual, 1888.
London : Andrew Crombie, [1888?]. Square octavo (193 x 152 mm), publisher’s papered boards with striking pictorial chromolithographed onlay to front, front pastedown with Sunday School reward of merit label dated 1889, wood engraved frontispiece, title page, [1] Index to Volume XXII, 94 pp, with numerous wood engraved illustrations (some full-page), among them Tahitian, African, …
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# 24739
DISDÉRI, André-Adolphe-Eugène
Photographic portrait of Irish nationalist William Smith O’Brien, transported to Van Diemen’s Land as a political prisoner, 1849-1854. Paris (or London), circa 1864.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 62 mm (mount), verso with the famous back mark of renowned French photographer Disdéri, which gives the addresses of both his London and Paris studios, and a later pencilled caption ‘Wm. Smith O’Brien’; both the print and mount are in fine condition. The identification of the …
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# 24448
RAFF, Georg Christian (1748-1788); ANDRE, Christian Carl
M. Georg Christian Raff’s Geographie für Kinder. Dritter Theil, welcher America und Australien enthält.
Nach des Verfassers Tode fortgesetzt von Christian Carl Andre. Tübingen : Wilhelm Heinrich Schramm & Johann Friedrich Balz, 1791. Thick octavo (177 x 105 mm), contemporary marbled papered boards with manuscript title label to spine, all edges stained red; pp xx, 830, [42] (Register), [2] (Chronologisches Register); text in German; scattered foxing (more pronounced on …
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# 24522
GIRARD, Maurice (1822-1886)
F. Péron : naturaliste, voyageur aux terres Australes : sa vie, appréciation de ses travaux, analyse raisonnée de ses recherches sur les animaux vertébrés et invertébrés d’aprèses collections déposées au Museum d’Histoire naturelle.
Paris : J.-B. Ballière et Fils ; Moulins : Enaut, 1857. Second edition. Large octavo (238 x 160 mm), publisher’s printed green wrappers (foot of spine with small area of paper loss and a couple of marks), frontispiece engraved portrait of Péron by Leseur, pp 278; text in French; scattered foxing (more pronounced on the …
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# 24425
"BOB" [pseud. of Robert WATT, 1837-1894]
[GOLD RUSH; ABORIGINES] Fra Australien. Reiseskizzer af Bob.
Kjøbenhavn : Forlagsbureauet i Kjøbenhaven, 1862. First (and only) edition. Quarto, later half cloth over papered boards, bound without the original wrappers, pp 55, illustrated with numerous wood engravings, many full-page, including several of the Victorian goldfields after S.T.Gill; text in Danish, in double columns; endpapers and title page foxed, marginal water stain at bottom corner …
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# 24216
Great Britain. Oversea Settlement Department.
Handbook on the Commonwealth of Australia : containing official information regarding climate and general conditions, openings for settlers, land settlement schemes, wages and hours of labour, cost of living, assisted passages, fares, &c.
London : Printed under the authority of His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1928. “Revised to January 1st, 1928”. Octavo (215 x 135 mm), printed blue wrappers (staples rusted but holding), pp 37, [2], maps, tables; internally very clean, a good copy. This publication is recorded in only one Australian collection (National Library of Australia).
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# 24510
GUILER, E. R.
Marsupials of Tasmania. Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery.
Hobart : Printed by L.G. Shea, Government Printer, [1960]. Small quarto (250 x 190 mm), pictorial wrappers featuring a thylacine, staple bound, pp 31, line-drawn illustrations throughout; a very good copy.
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# 15736
Gendron, Ernest
[MANUSCRIPT] Campagne de la Corvette à Voiles l’Alcméne. Commandée par Mr. Coudein, Capitaine de Frégate, à destination des Mers du Sud et Océanie.
[Libourne, France, between 1882 and 1887]. Folio, 270 x 215 mm, manuscript, [159] pp, in 4 stitched sections of 23, 38, 48 and 50 pages respectively, the third section with 2 pencil and wash drawings in the text, the fourth section with 3 pencil and wash drawings in the text and one laid down on thick paper (a …
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# 23927
F. A. BROCKHAUS
[THYLACINE] Австралийская фауна (=Australian fauna)
St. Petersburg : Litografiia Kadushin, [c.1900]. Chromolithographed print, 165 x 250 mm (sheet); reproduced from the Brockhaus Konversationslexikon, with the original German text translated into Russian; in good condition, unmounted.
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# 23496
THE POTATO MARKETING BOARD OF TASMANIA
[TASMANIA] Chef Brownell’s recipe book.
Burnie, Tas.; Sydney, NSW : The Potato Marketing Board of Tasmania, [1942 or 1943]. Octavo, original pictorial wrappers with design by Walter Dowman, staple bound, 48 pp, b/w illustrations, advertisements; a very good copy. Hoyle, 1059. Recipes for potato-based dishes, inspired by Tasmanian Brownell and Bismarck varieties. “With the object of stimulating the use of …
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# 23933
GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)
Omnibuses. (An essay by Mary Leman Grimstone published in Tait’s Edinburgh Journal, 1836)
Edinburgh : William Tait, 1836. Four pages small quarto (260 x 160 mm), disbound from Tait’s Edinburgh Journal (pp 335-38), printed initials M.L.G. at the foot of the text; fine. English writer and feminist Mary Leman Grimstone (1796-1869) wrote what are arguably the first two Australian novels. These were her second and third novels, Louisa …
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# 23932
GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)
Merchant sailors. (An essay by Mary Leman Grimstone published in Tait’s Edinburgh Journal, 1835).
Edinburgh : William Tait, 1835. Two pages small quarto (260 x 160 mm), disbound from Tait’s Edinburgh Journal (pp 451-52), printed initials M.L.G. at the foot of the text; fine. English writer and feminist Mary Leman Grimstone (1796-1869) wrote what are arguably the first two Australian novels. These were her second and third novels, Louisa …
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# 23930
GRIMSTONE, Mary Leman (1796-1869)
Men and women. (An essay by Mary Leman Grimstone published in Tait’s Edinburgh Journal, 1834).
Edinburgh : William Tait, 1834. Two pages small quarto (260 x 160 mm), disbound from Tait’s Edinburgh Journal (pp 101-2), printed initials M.L.G. at the foot of the text, with contemporary pencilled annotation ‘Mrs. Leman Grimstone’; fine. English writer and feminist Mary Leman Grimstone (1796-1869) wrote what are arguably the first two Australian novels. These …
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# 24265
GRAHAM-STEWART, Michael; McWHANNELL, Francis; DICKSON, Jonathan
Bitter fruit : Australian photographs to 1963
Melbourne : Michael Graham-Stewart, 2017. Quarto (285 x 230 mm), cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 280 pp, illustrated in colour throughout with hundreds of photographs documenting the collision of Indigenous Australian and European cultures; the photographs, ranging in date from the 1850s to the 1960s and taken in every region of Australia, represent some …
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# 24152
SALDANA, Rafael
Rafael Saldaña 1930 – 2000. A vision of Eden.
Devonport [Tas.] : Devonport Regional Gallery, 2001. Oblong octavo, spiral bound, acetate wrappers, pp. [36], illustrated. Madrid born naive artist resident in Tasmania. Unrecorded on Trove.
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# 23300
GRANT, James (1772-1833)
Verhaal van eene ontdekkingsreize na Nieuw-Zuid-Wales,
door den Luitenant James Grant, met zijner Majesteits Schip de Lady Nelson, in de jaren 1800, 1801 en 1802 … Uit het Engelsch. Met eene Kaart en Plaat. Haarlem : François Bohn, 1805. Octavo (228 x 137 mm), contemporary half calf over marbled papered boards (worn), spine with gilt lettering and rule, front pastedown with …