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Old Tasmanian books covers anything printed in or about Tasmania before 1901 - mainly books and pamphlets but also newspapers, maps, prints and printed ephemera such as broadsides and handbills -- Dust jacket.
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Contents: Introduction -- Thematic survey of old Tasmanian books -- Notable Tasmaniana Collectors -- Book collecting theory and practice -- Select bibliography of old Tasmanian books.
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The first section, a Thematic Survey, includes information on books in other languages, pp 66-69.
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Collecting Old Tasmanian Books : Incorporating Some Notes on Book Collecting Theory and Practice
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , March no. 369 2011; (p. 14-27)
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Collecting Old Tasmanian Books : Incorporating Some Notes on Book Collecting Theory and Practice
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , March no. 369 2011; (p. 14-27)
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Subjects:
- Australie : voyage autour du monde 1869 single work prose
- Voyage en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande 1883 single work prose
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- Hobarttown oder Sommerfrische in den Antipoden. 1886 single work prose
- Australien und Neuseeland : Historische, Geographische und Statistische Skizze 1879 single work prose
- Letters from Van Diemen's Land : written during four years imprisonment for political offences committed in Upper Canada / by Benjamin Wait ; embodying, also, letters descriptive of personal appeals in behalf of her husband and his fellow prisoners, to the Earl of Durham, Her Manjesty, and the United Legislature of the Canadas, by Mrs. B. Wait. 1843 single work correspondence
- Notes of an Exile to Van Diemen's Land 1846 single work autobiography
- Recollections of Life in Van Diemen's Land 1850 selected work biography
- A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of Captain Daniel D. Heustis and His Companions : In Canada and Van Diemen's Land, during a Long Captivity, with Travels in California, and Voyages at Sea 1847 single work autobiography
- Narrative and Recollections of Van Diemen's Land during a Three Years' Captivity of Stephen S. Wright Together with an Account of the Battle of Prescott Narrative and Recollections of Van Diemen's Land during a Three Years' Captivity of Stephen S. Wright Together with an Account of the Battle of Prescott in Which He Was Taken Prisoner, His Imprisonment in Canada, Trial, Condemnation and Transportation to Australia, His Terrible Sufferings in the British Penal Colony of Van Diemen's Land and Return to the United States : with a Copious Appendix Embracing Facts and Documents Relating to the Patriot War, Now First Given to the Public from the Original Notes and Papers of Mr. Wright and Other Sources 1844 single work prose
- Seven Years of My Life, or, Narrative of a Patriot Exile : who together with eighty-two American citizens were illegally tried for rebellion in Upper Canada in 1838, and transported to Van Dieman's Land, comprising a true account of our outrageous treatment during ten months imprisonment in Upper Canada, and four months of horrible suffering in a transport ship on the Ocean. With a true but appalling history of our cruel and unmerciful treatment during five years of unmitigated suffering on that detestable prison island. Showing, also, the cruelty and barbarity of the British Government to its prisoners generally in that penal colony, with a Concise account of the Island, its Inhabitants, Productions &c.&c. 1847 single work autobiography
- The Exile's Return: or, Narrative of Samuel Snow, who was Banished to Van Diemen's Land, for participating in the Patriot War in Upper Canada, in 1838 1846 single work autobiography
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