Tasmania
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# 48524
ROSS, James
The Hobart Town Almanack, for the year 1830.
With embellishments. Hobart Town : James Ross, [1830]. 24mo (130 x 90 mm), original green calico (faded and stained), upper board with the initials ‘C. C. H.’ in early manuscript, spine with remnants of printed paper label; front hinge split; front free-endpaper with early ownership inscription of Isabella Robinson, Westbury; engraved frontispiece of The residence …
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# 48513
MELVILLE, Henry (editor & publisher)
The Van Diemen’s Land Almanack, for the year of our Lord 1831; being the third after leap year.
Hobart Town : Henry Melville, 1831. Octavo, contemporary purple pebbled cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; pp. 263, [1 Errata]; bound without the coloured plate (Signals made at Mulgrave Battery); pastedown with bookplate removed, title with erased stamp; clean throughout. The first Henry Melville almanac. Ferguson, 1491; Wilson, 246
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# 33117
Edge-Partington, James (1854-1930)
Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.
[Portfolio cover title]. Also titled: An album of the weapons, tools, ornaments, articles of dress &c. of the natives of the Pacific islands. Drawn and described from examples in public & private collections in Australasia by James Edge-Partington. Third series. [London] : Issued for private circulation by James Edge-Partington & Charles Heape, 1898. “Lithographed by Palmer, …
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# 48468
HOWE, George (compiler and printer)
Australasian Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1825
Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the sixth of the Reign of His Most Gracious King George the Fourth. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency Sir Thomas Brisbane, K. C. B. &c. &c. &c. Australia : Compiled and Printed, at Sydney, by R. Howe, Government Printer, [1824]. Duodecimo, contemporary …
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# 48469
HOWE, Robert (compiler and printer)
Australasian Pocket Almanack, for the Year of Our Lord 1829
Being the first after Bissextile, or Leap Year; and the tenth of the Reign of His Most Gracious King George the Fourth. Published under the Sanction and Patronage of His Excellency Lieutenant General Darlig, &c. &c. &c. Sydney : Edited, Compiled and Printed, at Sydney, by Robert Howe, Government Printer, [1828]. Duodecimo, later half crushed …
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# 47283
A. & S. JOSEPH, MYERS & CO. (publisher)
The Zones of the Earth. Plate No. X. Productions of the Southern Temperate Zone.
[Title from printed caption lower centre]. London : A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co. 144 Leadenhall Street, [after 1842]. Chromolithograph, 253 x 378 mm, mounted on a fully contemporary backing sheet of marbled card, with an eyelet for hanging at top centre; some pale stains and light marks, mostly confined to the margins, otherwise …
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# 48506
MACONOCHIE, Alexander.
Thoughts on Convict Management, and other subjects connected with the Australian Penal Colonies
Hobart Town : printed by J. C. MacDougall, 1838. Octavo, publisher’s cloth, recased with new spine, lettered in gilt, speckled edges, bookplate for Sir William Molesworth to front pastedown, title leaf, contents leaf, pp. vii; [blank]; errata slip; pp. 222, light foxing to preliminaries, else internally clean, a fine copy. Ferguson 2540 and 2798. Wilson …
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# 47708
JOHNSTON, Robert M. (1844 - 1918)
Systematic account of the geology of Tasmania
Hobart : William Thomas Strutt, Government Printer, 1888. Thick quarto, polished half-calf over patterned cloth (scuffed and worn), morocco title label to spine lettered in gilt, previous owner’s names to endpaper, pp. xxii (dedication and preface leaves trimmed short along lower margin); [ii]; 408; [2 – blank]; folding map of Tasmania printed in colour (with …
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# 48535
FRANKLIN, Sir John
Proclamations, Government Orders, and Notices, issued by His Excellency, Sir John Franklin, K.C.H., K.R., Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen’s Land. 1840
Hobart Town : James Barnard, Government Printer, Hobart Town, 1841. Foolscap folio, finely bound in modern calf over marbled papered boards; pp. 320, pale water stain to a few leaves, but contents very clean throughout.
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# 48492
ROSS, James (1786-1838)
The Hobart Town Gazette (virtually complete run of issues for the year 1834)
Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1834. A run of 49 issues for 1834: vol. XIX, no. 919, January 10, 1834 – vol. XIX, no. 968, December 18, 1834 (missing nos. 918; 928; 969). Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number of issues with supplements (Government acts); some issues with …
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# 48494
ROSS, James (1786-1838)
The Hobart Town Gazette (a virtually complete run of issues for the year 1837)
Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1837. A virtually complete run of 51 issues for 1837: vol. XXII, no. 1075, January 6, 1837 – vol. XXII, no. 1126, December 29, 1837 (missing no. 1078; but including the “Extraordinary issue” of July 11 1837). Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number …
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# 48451
[CLIFT, Horace William]
[INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world
Calcutta : printed at the Calcutta School-Book Society’s Press, and sold at their Depository, Circular Road, 1846. Sixth edition. Octavo (177 x 110 mm), original plum cloth (faded and with scattered stains); ownership inscription to front free endpaper: ‘R. Moore of the 1 Company 6 Bn. Bengal Artillery Feby. 12 the [sic] 1857 Anno Domino …
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# 48493
ROSS, James (1786-1838)
The Hobart Town Gazette (complete run of issues for the year 1835)
Hobart : James Ross and George Howe, Government Printers, 1835. A complete run of 52 issues for 1835: vol. XX, no. 970, January 1, 1835 – vol. XIX, no. 1021, December 25, 1835. Quarto, all issues stitch bound, various paginations; a number of issues with supplements (Government acts); some issues with subscriber’s name [H.B. Fortesse] …
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# 29076
BROSSES, Charles de (1709-1777)
Histoire des navigations aux terres australes
: contenant ce que l’on scait des moeurs & des productions des contrées decouvertes jusqu’à ce jour; & où il est traité de l’utilité d’y faire de plus amples découvertes, & des moyens d’y former un établissement. Paris : Chez Durand, 1756. First edition. Two volumes, quarto (260 x 200 mm), contemporary full calf (boards …
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# 47769
NISBET, (James) Hume (1849-1923)
The savage queen : a romance of the natives of Van Diemen’s Land
London : F. V. White & Co., 1891. Octavo, pictorial green cloth (canted, edges rubbed), pp. xi; [blank]; 324; a few light marks, a little shaken, a good copy. ‘I have brought together a few well-known or historical characters of that land of beauty and tears, at the time when Van Dieman’s Land was regarded …
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# 47738
JOHNSTON, Robert M. (1844 - 1918)
Guide to the rocks and minerals of Tasmania
Hobart : William Thomas Strutt, Government Printer, 1888. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth (one corner creased on lower board), pp. 51, three plates, Addenda and corrigenda slip inserted at p. 11. Separately published extract from Systematic account of the geology of Tasmania (1888) by the author. From the Glover collection (sold Theodore Bruce, 1970) with bookplate to …