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  • THE NAVAL STORES BRISBANE  – An Historical Survey and Management Plan – Don Roderick

    THE NAVAL STORES BRISBANE – An Historical Survey and Management Plan – Don Roderick

    A unique item. Landscape presentation, 103 pages, copied and perfect bound monochrome illustrations throughout in good plus condition. Produced for the Queensland Government in 1984.

    An Historical Survey and Management Plan. Unusual and rare. Typescript reproduced on a duplicating machine. Includes: an historic perspective, chronology of site development, stores buildings concept and design, the designers, the design documents, remedial works, possible uses etc..

    Scarce Queensland/ Brisbane History of the Naval Stores

    $50.00

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  • Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-48

    Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-48

    If you want to collect Skinner Prout you may be too late his works are fetching big prices.

    This is the best “get to know him” book put together by Tony Brown and Hendrik Kolenberg to accompany a tour of Prout’s work held in 1987.

    Squarish format, perfect bound, 80 pages, with many illustrations of the works … super biographical outline of the master. Very good if not better condition.

    Sought after reference to Skinner Prout.

    $38.00

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  • The Story of Port Dalrymple [Tasmania] – L.S. Bethell

    The Story of Port Dalrymple [Tasmania] – L.S. Bethell

    A first printing of this full history of Port Dalrymple and by Oxford educated Bethell.

    Published by the University in 1957. Pink card cover, 193 pages, illustrated plus voluminous index at rear. Slight chip to top left otherwise very good, very clean internally.

    A well received history at the time and still the “go to” reference. Worthy, relevant illustrations help with the comprehensive text.

    Port Dalrymple not just any old harbour.

    $25.00

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  • Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders 1803-1875 – Graeme-Evans

    Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders 1803-1875 – Graeme-Evans

    This is volume II and our favourite the middle years, being 1821-1836 … so a subset of the main title.

    Self published by Alex Graeme-Evans of Launceston in 1994.

    Larger soft cover format, perfect bound. 104 pages, nicely illustrated throughout.

    What is it that makes rogues and absconders interesting … a rhetorical question. Much better reading than “everyday folk” … apologies. One thing for sure there were plenty of them … threaded intimately through the history of the Apple Isle.

    For every rogue there seems to have been at least one absconder

    $25.00

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  • James Fenton of Forth – A Tasmanian Pioneer 1820-1901 – One of 100 special bound, signed and numbered copies.

    James Fenton of Forth – A Tasmanian Pioneer 1820-1901 – One of 100 special bound, signed and numbered copies.

    This magnificent and substantial book was complied and edited by the subjects descendant Paul Fenton as a celebration of the 100th year of the great man’s death. Effectively self published with no cost spared.

    Limited overall to 800 copies. This part of a special first 100 copies specially quarter bound in Buckram with Brillianta spine and signed and numbered by Paul Fenton – this number 48.

    Folio, 454 pages, profusely illustrated. A fine, as new copy, in a fine protected dust jacket. A heavy book that will require a distance postage supplement.

    James Fenton was not only a pioneer and traveller through unmapped territory in Tasmania he penned some interesting accounts of his travel and one of the few dependable histories of Tasmania, still very much collectable and referenced by all serious historian.

    Signed limited numbered edition – we cannot find another one.

    $160.00

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  • The Lake Frome Monster – Arthur Upfield – First edition

    The Lake Frome Monster – Arthur Upfield – First edition

    A first edition of Arthur Upfield’s last novel. Incomplete at his death it was crafted into publication by J L Price and Dorothy Strange.

    Published by Heinemann, London in 1966.

    Octavo, 184 pages, all in pretty good condition. Edges a little aged, the strikingly scary jacket with some creases but as good as they come if you can find one.

    The last Napoleon Bonaparte novel (obviously). Lake Frome is in South Australia, it’s large but rarely fills with water. A roving photographer is found dead … the monster?

    Bony sets about resolving the unusual murder disguised as workman tending the very long dog-proof fence. His life is in danger … but our Bony is no coward!

    Bony … out in the dirt solving the weirdest of murders.

    $70.00

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