Tasmania

  • Old Tasmanian prints : prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the mainland of Australia

    # 35143

    CRAIG, Clifford

    Old Tasmanian prints : prepared in Great Britain, Europe and on the mainland of Australia

    Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1964. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies. Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards, colour frontispiece, xii, 349 pp, illustrated with 81 plates (7 colour), endpapers slightly browned, a very good copy.

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  • Notes on Tasmania

    # 35142

    CRAIG, Clifford

    Notes on Tasmania

    Launceston : Foot & Playsted, 1986. Edition limited to 1000 numbered and signed copies (no. 106). Large octavo, pictorial cloth boards in dust jacket, xvii, 324 pp, illustrated with 45 plates (some colour); light foxing to edges and preliminaries, light tape marks to endpapers, a very good copy with the scarce prospectus loosely enclosed.

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  • The mode of draining land, according to the system practised by the late Mr. Joseph Elkington.

    # 34410

    JOHNSTONE, John

    The mode of draining land, according to the system practised by the late Mr. Joseph Elkington.

    Drawn up for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture, by John Johnstone, Land-Surveyor. With Nineteen Plates. London : J. Taylor, 1841. A new edition. Octavo, green cloth, lightly marked, with paper title label to spine, contemporary gift inscription in pencil to endpaper, name torn from head of title page, pp. xiv; 118; 19 folding …

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  • Visit of His Majesty's Special Service Squadron : official programme : Tasmania March 27 - April 5, 1924.

    # 34608

    Visit of His Majesty’s Special Service Squadron : official programme : Tasmania March 27 – April 5, 1924.

    Hobart : John Vail, Govt. Printer, [1924]. Large octavo (257 x 163 mm), grey wrappers printed in blue, [16] pp, with b/w photomechanical process illustrations; a fine example. Trove locates only one copy (Libraries Tasmania)

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  • Days and nights of salmon fishing in the River Tweed

    # 34411

    SCROPE, William

    Days and nights of salmon fishing in the River Tweed

    Illustrated by Sir David Wilkie, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cooke. London : Hamilton, Adams & Co., and Glasgow : Thomas D. Morison, 1885. Octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth, edges rubbed, old sticker to head of spine, light stains to endpapers, bookplate from the Library of Parliament, Tasmania to front pastedown, lithographed …

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  • Whaling ways of Hobart Town

    # 34443

    PHILP, J. E.

    Whaling ways of Hobart Town

    Hobart : J. Walch, [1936]. Octavo, illustrated wrappers ( spine chipped with loss), previous owner’s name to upper wrapper and title page, pp. 95, photographically illustrated.  

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  • Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.

    # 33639

    CLIFFORD, Samuel (1827-1890) (after)

    Hobart Town, the capital of Tasmania.

    [Title from printed caption below image]. Wood-engraved panorama, 195 x 550 mm (sheet); no engraver’s details; central vertical fold with light foxing, else very good. This engraved view was removed (by a previous owner) from a copy of the April 4 1868 edition of the Illustrated London News, in which the panorama was one of …

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  • Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler's publications for the Sesquicentenary)

    # 33207

    ZIEGLER, Oswald L. (publisher); HURLEY, Frank (photographer)

    Australia 1788-1938. (With an archive of unique ephemera associated with Ziegler’s publications for the Sesquicentenary)

    Sydney, N.S.W. : Simmons Limited, 1938. “Produced by Oswald L. Ziegler under the authority of Australia’s 150th Anniversary Celebrations Council and in collaboration with its publicity committee.” (title page). Elephant folio (440 x 310 mm), publisher’s tan leather over boards (lightly rubbed and marked), upper board with black leather panel lettered in gilt 150 Years; all …

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  • Studio portraits of five officers of the Russian naval corvette "Boyarin". Hobart, May-June 1870.

    # 33114

    SPURLING, Stephen (1821-1892); BAILY, Henry Hall (1839-1896)

    Studio portraits of five officers of the Russian naval corvette “Boyarin”. Hobart, May-June 1870.

    Five albumen print photographs in carte de visite format, mount sizes 101 x 63 mm (1) and 105 x 63 mm (4); one with the back mark of H. H. Baily, Hobart and four with the back mark of S. Spurling, Hobart; the versos have fully contemporary inscriptions written in ink or pencil, identifying the …

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  • William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.

    # 32325

    WESTALL, William (1781-1850)

    William Westall, voyage artist: autograph receipt for the sale a drawing for Mrs. Haldimand, dated 31 October 1826.

    Manuscript in ink on laid paper, 75 x 180 mm; dated ‘Oct. 31st 1826’, the document is written in Westall’s hand and is worded: ‘Recd. of G. J. Robson Esqre. Ten Guineas for a Drawing for Mrs. Haldimand. [Signed] W. Westall. / £10.10’; blind stamped at left margin ‘Receipt Three Pence’; clean and complete. Rare …

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  • Ethnographical album of the Pacific Islands. Third series.

    # 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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  • Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

    # 30697

    FLINDERS, Matthew (1774-1814)

    Observations upon the marine barometer, made during the examination of the coasts of New Holland and New South Wales, in the years 1801, 1802, and 1803.

    Contained within: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCVI. Part II. London : printed by W. Bulmer, 1806. Quarto, original plain blue wrappers, pp. iv; 239 – 473; [8]; 12 engraved plates (some folding), the plates foxed but the text clean, all edges uncut and a little dusty, a fine …

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  • Letter to Port Phillip pioneer Charles Parker Tilly from his mother in Falmouth, Cornwall. Dated 9 July, 1839.

    # 26875

    TILLY, Onora (1773-1857)

    Letter to Port Phillip pioneer Charles Parker Tilly from his mother in Falmouth, Cornwall. Dated 9 July, 1839.

    [Entire letter]. Manuscript in ink written on 3 sides of a small quarto bifolium (230 x 185 mm); the outer side is addressed Mr. Charles Tilly, care of Messrs Welsh Eddy & Co. Merchants, Launceston, Van Diemen’s Land; the letter itself is headed Tremough, July 9th 1839, is addressed to My Beloved Children and is signed at …

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  • Van Diemen’s Land Company : Report to the special general meeting, 1833.

    # 27129

    VAN DIEMEN'S LAND COMPANY.

    Van Diemen’s Land Company : Report to the special general meeting, 1833.

    Cover title: Report made to the special general meeting of the Van Diemen’s Land Company, held at the Company’s office, in Old Broad Street, the 31st October, 1833. London : Printed by George Woodfall, Angel Court, Skinner Street, 1833. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), original printed wrappers, 8 pp; a fine, unopened copy.

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  • Sensational tales by the late Marcus Clarke

    # 26496

    CLARKE, Marcus (1946 - 1881)

    Sensational tales by the late Marcus Clarke

    Published by permission of the author’s widow. Hobart : Walch Bros., 1886. Octavo, lettered wrappers (stained, chips to spine), pp. [xii]; 91; (5), advertisements to preliminaries and endpapers, the cover stain affecting with diminishing severity the first twenty or so pages, light handling marks, else a good copy. Contains the tales : The island of gold …

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  • The Orient Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Prospectus.

    # 26003

    ORIENT STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

    The Orient Steam Navigation Company, Limited. Prospectus.

    London : The Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 13 Fenchurch Avenue, E.C., [1880]. Folio (420 x 265 mm) bifolium, 3 pp, folding to 265 x 105 mm with printed title to outer side; original share application form still loosely enclosed; outer side a little dusty, but a near fine example. ‘The Orient Steam Navigation Company …

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