Tasmania
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# 43579
ANGUS, Max
Simpkinson de Wesselow. Landscape painter in Van Diemen’s Land and the Port Phillip district 1844 – 1848
Hobart : Blubber Head Press, 1984. Quarto, gilt-decorated cloth in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 191, previous owner’s name to endpaper, extensively illustrated, including a foldout panorama. Limited to 1000 copies signed by the author. A fine copy.
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![[TASMANIA] Convict record of John Jones, sentenced at the Lancaster Quarter Session in July 1837 to transportation for life to Van Diemen's Land; arrived on the Neptune, January 1838; remained in penal servitude until April 1844.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13110800/2022_DSFB_2200-300x300.jpg)
# 34748
[COMPTROLLER-GENERAL OF CONVICTS]
[TASMANIA] Convict record of John Jones, sentenced at the Lancaster Quarter Session in July 1837 to transportation for life to Van Diemen’s Land; arrived on the Neptune, January 1838; remained in penal servitude until April 1844.
Single parchment sheet, 330 x 200 mm; manuscript in ink, densely written on 1 page, the entries covering the period January 1838 to April 1844, written in several different hands and in different locations in Van Diemen’s Land; the prisoner’s physical description and background are entered in the upper margin recto; light staining and rubbing …
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![[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Record of summons for James McGinnes for a charge brought by the Chief District Constable, for allowing a transported female convict to unlawfully remain on his premises. Launceston, June 1836.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113915/2022_DSFB_2221-300x300.jpg)
# 34725
CLARK, John; [FRIEND, Charles] [McGINNIS, James] [BICKERDIKE, Ruth] [FRANKS, William]
[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Record of summons for James McGinnes for a charge brought by the Chief District Constable, for allowing a transported female convict to unlawfully remain on his premises. Launceston, June 1836.
[Hobart Town : s.n.], 1836. Foolscap folio, 335 x 210 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper watermarked ‘Harris & Tremlett 1834’; headed ‘Information. Van Diemen’s Land (To wit.)’ and dated 25 June 1836, the manuscript entries record that on 22 June, at Launceston, Charles Friend, the Chief District Constable, informed John Clark Esq., …
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# 43297
JONES, Rhys
The Tasmanian Aboriginal in Art
Hobart : Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1976. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Text by Rhys Jones. Catalogue of 115 works, including works by Arago, Bock, Becker, Dowling, Duterrau, Glover, Gould, Lesueur, Simkinson de Wesselow, Webber and photographs by Nixon, Winter, Woolley, and others.
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![[TASMANIA; WINE] Licence issued to Messrs. Henty & Company, Launceston, in pursuance of An Act for the Licensing of Wholesale Dealers in Wine and Sprituous Liquors. January 1842.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113929/2022_DSFB_2226-300x300.jpg)
# 34720
[VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE]
[TASMANIA; WINE] Licence issued to Messrs. Henty & Company, Launceston, in pursuance of An Act for the Licensing of Wholesale Dealers in Wine and Sprituous Liquors. January 1842.
[Hobart Town : s.n.], 1842. Foolscap folio, 330 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with Britannia watermark; the manuscript entries record the successful application by Messrs. Henty & Co., Launceston, for a licence ‘to be a Dealer, under the said Act, In Wine and in Brandy, Rum, Gin, Whiskey, Cordials, and …
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![[TASMANIA; ALCOHOL] Licence to keep an Inn or a Public House, circa 1836.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/14111624/2022_DSFB_2270-300x300.jpg)
# 34709
[LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR ARTHUR]
[TASMANIA; ALCOHOL] Licence to keep an Inn or a Public House, circa 1836.
[Hobart Town : s.n., circa 1836]. Foolscap folio, 315 x 200 mm, letterpress printed recto only on laid paper with watermark ‘W. Warren 1836’; a colonial Government licence ‘to keep an Inn or a Public House … and to sell and retail therein Ale, Beer, and other Malt Liquors, and Wines, Cider, Ginger Beer, Spruce …
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# 32074
WEYGAND, F. J.
Globe artificiel et mécanique a l’usage du petit géographe.
Amsterdam ; La Haye [Netherlands] : F. J. Weygand, [ca.1840]. Collapsible globe in 6 gores, engraved with hand colouring, laid down on thin card, each gore 170 x 70 mm (irregular); in fine condition with vivid original colour, Australia with Terre de Witt, Terre d’Eendracht, Cape Leeuwin, Terre de Nuyts, Golfe de Spencer, Terre de Van …
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# 41379
Photographer unknown.
View of a section of Queenstown, Tasmania, 1890s.
Printing-out-paper print photograph, 152 x 205 mm; no photographer’s imprint; verso with contemporary inscription in pencil: ‘Section of Queenstown / Hospital on the hill’; there are small spots of discolouration at the left and right edges, and in the sky area the inscription shows through the thin paper; otherwise, this is an extremely sharp image with …
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# 41550
ROWCROFT, Charles (1798-1856)
Nybyggarne på Van Diemens Land : en berättelse från det Australiska nybyggarlifvet
/ af Charles Rowcroft ; öfversatt från den tyska bearbetningen för ungdom af Julius Hoffmann. Stockholm : Tryckt hos Eric Westrell, 1861. Octavo (185 x 120 mm), publisher’s printed papered boards (lightly marked, backstrip replaced), pp. [4], 128, with [4] leaves of chromolithographed plates; text in Swedish; front pastedown with partially erased ownership inscription dated …
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# 41348
BURN & SON
Superior jewellery, gold & silver watches, clocks, chains, Alberts, brooches, rings, etc. etc. being the residue of the stock of Mr. D. Barclay; … will be sold by public auction at the Mart, Elizabeth-Street, by order of Mr. Golding, by Burn and Son, on Thursday, May 15, 1879, without the slightest reserve.
Catalogues to be had at the Mart, where the above are now on view. Hobart Town : Davies Bros., Printers, “Mercury” Office, 1879. Single sheet, 225 x 160 mm, lithograph-printed recto only; the flyer was evidently preserved flat for a century or so inside a Hobart newspaper, as it has offsetting from the newsprint on …
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![[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Francis Burgess, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph note signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the dispatch of mounted policemen to help in the pursuit and capture of bushrangers in the Prosser's Plains district. 29 November, 1843.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5458-300x300.jpg)
# 41347
BURGESS, Francis (1793-1864)
[TASMANIA; BUSHRANGERS] Francis Burgess, Chief Police Magistrate, Hobart Town : autograph note signed, to the magistrate at Richmond regarding the dispatch of mounted policemen to help in the pursuit and capture of bushrangers in the Prosser’s Plains district. 29 November, 1843.
Manuscript in ink, single sheet (225 x 185 mm); signed ‘Fras. Burgess’ and headed ‘Police Department [Hobart Town], Nov. 29 1843’, the note is addressed to ‘Chas. Schaw Esq., Magistrate’; endorsed at Richmond ‘Recd. 1/4 past 2 of pm’; verso docketed ‘CPM, 29 Nov ’43, “Bushrangers”‘; two original horizontal folds, extremely well preserved. An interesting …
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![[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] Police magistrate's case summary against recidivist convict Patrick McKone, one of the longest-serving prisoners in the Van Diemen's Land penal system. Flowerdale (Upper Esk), March 1846.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2023/09/2023_DSFB_5464-300x300.jpg)
# 41356
[McKONE, Patrick]
[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] Police magistrate’s case summary against recidivist convict Patrick McKone, one of the longest-serving prisoners in the Van Diemen’s Land penal system. Flowerdale (Upper Esk), March 1846.
Manuscript in ink, 2 pp., foolscap folio (320 x 200 mm); original folds, short tear at top edge (no loss), otherwise well preserved. Case summary prepared by an unnamed police magistrate at Flowerdale, near Wynyard, northwest Tasmania, dated 12 March 1846. ‘March 12 46. P[olice ] M[agistrate], Flowerdale. Patrick McKone, Coromandel. TL, Life. Larceny of …
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# 41085
MARCHANT, Phillip James
Studio portrait of a woman in Salvation Army uniform. Latrobe, Tasmania, circa 1890.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 112 mm (mount); verso with wet stamp of ‘Marchant & Co., Photographic Studio, Latrobe, Tasmania’; a strong print in excellent condition; the mount has some light handling marks.
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# 39619
BURROWS' STUDIOS (LAUNCESTON)
Photographic Memoirs: Visit to Launceston of September’s Prettiest Bride (Mrs W. H. Dando).
With Compliments from Burrows’ Studios, Launceston, 1926. Photograph album, oblong folio (240 x 340 mm), original burgundy crushed morocco over boards with gilt-stamped initials ‘T.D.’ (Thelma Dando) to front (upper boards with a few scuff marks; lower board with the leather worn at fore-edge); gilt-stamped title leaf, followed by [20] sepia-tone gelatin silver print photographs …
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# 40193
WANTRUP, Jonathan
Australian Rare Books 1788 – 1900
Melbourne : Australian Book Auctions, 2023. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Two volumes, 255 x 180 mm, bound in dark green buckram, lettered in gilt, with colour pictorial dustwrappers, pp. 1400, 148 illustrations (43 in colour), glossary of book collecting terms, historical price estimates, indices of persons and titles. Printed and bound in Australia on …
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# 36977
HAWKESWORTH, John (1715-1773); COOK, James (1728-1779); KING, James
The three voyages of Captain James Cook
1. An account of the voyages undertaken by the order of his present Majesty for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: drawn up from the journals which were kept by the several commanders, and …