Tasmania
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![[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from the Chief Magistrate of Police in Van Diemen's Land, to the Police Magistrate at Richmond, re. directions given by the Colonial Secretary for keeping prisoner records. April 1833.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113906/2022_DSFB_2218-300x300.jpg)
# 34728
FORSTER, Matthew (1796-1846)
[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from the Chief Magistrate of Police in Van Diemen’s Land, to the Police Magistrate at Richmond, re. directions given by the Colonial Secretary for keeping prisoner records. April 1833.
Foolscap folio, 320 x 200 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked ‘J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1828’, 2 pages; written in a clerical hand and signed at the foot ‘M. Forster, CPM’ (Matthew Forster, Chief Police Magistrate), headed ‘Circular. Police Office, Hobart, 23rd April 1833’, addressed to ‘The Police Magistrate, Richmond’ (William Thomas Parramore); …
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![[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from William H. Ellis, Hobart Town, to the Chief Magistrate of Police of Van Diemen's Land, seeking reimbursement for providing a member of the convict Field Police with clothing. April 1831.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113925/2022_DSFB_2224-300x300.jpg)
# 34722
ELLIS, William H.; SHALVEY, James; GORDON, James (1779-1842)
[TASMANIA; POLICE; CONVICTS] Manuscript letter from William H. Ellis, Hobart Town, to the Chief Magistrate of Police of Van Diemen’s Land, seeking reimbursement for providing a member of the convict Field Police with clothing. April 1831.
Foolscap folio, 335 x 210 mm, manuscript in ink on laid paper watermarked ‘Gilling & Alford 1828’; 1 page autograph letter signed by William H. Ellis, headed Hobart Town, 11 August 1831, addressed to James Gordon Esq., Chief Police Magistrate: ‘I most respectfully request you will be pleased to stop from Constable Shalvey’s Salary the …
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![[TRANSPORTATION] An Act for the effectual Transportation of Felons and other Offenders ; and to authorize the Removal of Prisoners in certain Cases ; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113842/2022_DSFB_2211-300x300.jpg)
# 34739
[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]
[TRANSPORTATION] An Act for the effectual Transportation of Felons and other Offenders ; and to authorize the Removal of Prisoners in certain Cases ; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.
[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1784. Foolscap folio, 320 x 200 mm, disbound, pp 907-919, [1 blank], [1 colophon], [1 blank]; first leaf with toning to bottom margin, else a fine copy. The Transportation, etc. Act 1784 (24 Geo. 3 c. …
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# 16694
[WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY]; TURNER, Nathaniel; SIMPSON, William
Two manuscript letters containing reports on the Wesleyan Missionary Society in Tasmania, 1843.
Two entire letters sent from Hobart Town to London, both written in a neat secretarial hand on 3 sides of one folded folio sheet, addressed to ‘The General Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate Street within, London’, stamped in red and dated 1843; the address panels are annotated by the sender ‘VDL Minutes No. …
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# 34789
MORRIS, Alfred
Road to Mt. Wellington, near Springs.
[Title from contemporary pencil inscription verso]. Circa 1865. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image approximately 75 x 75 mm (irregular), on sky blue card mount, embossed imprint at right margin “A. Morris Photo.”; the left hand albumen print has two small spots of surface loss (at left edge and in the sky area); the right …
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# 23510
EVANS, George William, (1780-1852)
Voyage a la terre de Van Diemen, ou, Description historique, géographique, et topographique de cette ile.
[Series : Collection des meilleurs voyages modernes, Tome 40]. Paris : Bureau des Annales des Voyages, 1823. Octavo, contemporary blue paper wrappers, pp. [iv – prospectus for Ternaux-Compans’ Archives des voyages], 187; [2 – catalogue for Librairie de Gide Fils, with an advertisement for this title], folding frontispiece plate with engraving of Hobart by Engelmann, large …
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![Hobart Town, looking south [and] Hobart Town, from the harbour. A pair of two-part panoramas, 1876-1881.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/09/17091140/2021_DSFB_6361-300x300.jpg)
# 32508
Photographer unidentified.
Hobart Town, looking south [and] Hobart Town, from the harbour. A pair of two-part panoramas, 1876-1881.
Two photographic panoramas mounted on three leaves removed from a mid-19th century album. Approximate dating based on the fact that in one of the prints the lantern tower is missing from St. Mary’s Cathedral (the tower was removed in 1876 and the cathedral was closed until 1881). I. Hobart Town looking south / Tasmania. [View of …
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# 34406
WINTER, Alfred (1837-1911)
Tinted studio portrait of an adolescent. Hobart Town, Tasmania, 1874-75.
Albumen print photograph with hand colouring, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount), verso with decorative back mark surmounted by the Australian coat of arms and worded ‘Photographed by Alfred Winter, 19 Elizabeth Street, Hobart Town. Established in Melbourne 8 years.’; the print is in good condition; the mount has a sprinkling of light …
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# 11001
ALLPORT, Morton (1830-1879)
In Port Esperance, Tasmania
[Title from caption on mount]. Between 1862 and 1866. Albumen print photograph, 190 x 240 mm, laid down on original album leaf, 270 x 370 mm, contemporary manuscript title in ink beneath the image In Port Esperance, Tasmania; the print is in fine condition with excellent tonal range; the album sheet is entirely frre from foxing. …
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![[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] General view Model Prison, Port Arthur. / Chapel, Model Prison.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/16231723/2014_DSFB_4604-300x260.jpg)
# 34801
ANSON BROS.
[TASMANIA; CONVICTS] General view Model Prison, Port Arthur. / Chapel, Model Prison.
Circa 1880. Two albumen print photographs, each in very large format 265 x 330 mm, mounted recto and verso of an album leaf of thick card from an Anson Bros. portfolio, with the studio’s imprint ‘Anson Bros. Hobart’ and printed calligraphic captions in the lower margins; both albumen prints in fine condition with good tonal …
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![[TASMANIA] A daguerreotype portrait of a woman wearing a bonnet and Paisley pattern dress, identified as "Mary Ann Fielding of Australia"](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/05/17140504/2017_DSFB_1630-300x300.jpg)
# 15724
Photographer unknown.
[TASMANIA] A daguerreotype portrait of a woman wearing a bonnet and Paisley pattern dress, identified as “Mary Ann Fielding of Australia”
[Australia? : s.n., circa 1860]. Ninth plate daguerreotype, exposed image 56 x 43 mm, still sealed in its original pressed copper mat and frame, 71 x 55 mm; verso with the original leather backing inscribed in an early twentieth century hand ‘Mary Ann Fielding of Australia. Mother’s namesake’; original string for suspension; the daguerreotype is intact, with scattered tarnishing beneath the cover …
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![[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2017/11/21164456/2017_DSFB_5075-300x300.jpg)
# 17105
[TASMANIA; WINE] Entire letter sent from Circular Head to Launceston, August 27 1847, regarding the purchase of port wine.
Manuscript in ink, single folio sheet, 370 x 235 mm, folded, headed ‘Circular Head, August 27 1847’, signed at the foot ‘Yours truly, W. [Shepman?]’; outer side addressed to ‘W. Johnstone Esq. Launceston’ and endorsed ‘[Per] “Mercury”‘ / Paid’; old loss at 2 corners, small perforation from letter spike, but the letter itself is complete …
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![[TASMANIA] Native plant, photographed in situ.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/11/18234043/2012_DSFB_4764-297x300.jpg)
# 34787
Photographer unknown.
[TASMANIA] Native plant, photographed in situ.
Circa 1870. Stereoscopic albumen print photograph, each image 72 x 67 mm (irregular), mount 82 x 180 mm, numbered 72 in the negative at lower left of left-hand image; no photographer’s imprint; some light foxing to both prints; the mount fine. This stereoview was sourced with a large group of 1860s Tasmanian stereoviews, some of …
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![[TARIFFS] An Act to continue, until the First Day of January [1824], an Act ... relating to imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales ; to authorise the imposing and levying other Duties on Goods imported into the said Colony ; and to suspend, for Ten Years, the Payment of Duty on the Importation of certain Goods of Produce of New South Wales. 30th July 1822.](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2022/04/13113838/2022_DSFB_2209-300x300.jpg)
# 34743
[GREAT BRITAIN. PARLIAMENT]
[TARIFFS] An Act to continue, until the First Day of January [1824], an Act … relating to imposing and levying Duties in New South Wales ; to authorise the imposing and levying other Duties on Goods imported into the said Colony ; and to suspend, for Ten Years, the Payment of Duty on the Importation of certain Goods of Produce of New South Wales. 30th July 1822.
[Drop-head title with coat of arms at head of text]. London : Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1822. Foolscap folio, 305 x 190 mm, disbound, pp 913-918, [2 blank]; a fine copy. ‘For the purpose of tariff fixing, the colony of New South Wales made up all of the modern “Australia” until 1825. …
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# 35195
CRAIG, Clifford
More old Tasmanian prints : a companion volume to The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land and Old Tasmanian prints.
Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1984. Edition limited to 1000 copies (no. 444). Large octavo, fine pictorial cloth boards in like dust jacket, lacking the wraparound band, colour frontispiece plate, 389 pp, illustrated with colour and black and white plates, a very good copy.
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# 35144
CRAIG, Clifford
The engravers of Van Diemen’s Land
Launceston : Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 1961. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards (lightly marked), x, 172 pp, illustrated with black and white plates, a very good copy.