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Hobart, Tasmania: J. Walch & Sons, 1946. 208 pp, 9 7/8" H. Medium brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, colour pastedown on front board. Fold-out frontispiece of Hobart Bridge, plus additional b&w plates. Contents: Preface; Index to Part I; Introduction; Chronological Statement of Curious and Interesting Facts; Privateering; Military Camps; The First Roads; Toll Bars, Turnpikes, and the Old Coaching Days; An Old Crown Colony; Duelling in V.D.L.; Representative (not Responsible) Government; Who Discovered Gold in Australia?; Respon-sible Government; First Tasmanian Parliament; The Heroic 80's; Railways; The Gay 90s; Bicycling; Federation; Premiers' Conference; Index to Part II; Sealers and Wreckers; "Dire" Straits; Smuggling and Piracy; Early Banditry; Brigands of the Twenties; Britton, Brown and Jeffkins; The Robin Hood of V.D.L.; Last Phase of Banditry in V.D.L.; A Post-War Killer; A Forty-Niner; Whaling from Earliest Times; First Hobart Town Whaler; Power. Date… Leer más

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Hobart : J. walch & Sons, 1946 Hard brown cloth cover. 208p. photographic illustrations. includes index. Pages aged. Torn front endpaper

Hobart: J. Walsh and Sons, 1946. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very good with small crack to the front gutter , PP 208, Fold out frontis, illustrations

Hobart: J. Walsh and Sons, 1980. Facsimile . Cloth. Near Fine/With Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine with an owners signature to front pastedown, jacket is very good with a small chip to the top rear edge, PP 208, Fold out frontis, illustrations

Hobart, J. Walch & Sons 1946. . First Edition; 8vo; pp. 208; folding b/w frontispiece, 34 pages b/w plates, indexes; brown cloth with gilt title on spine, as issued colour illustration pasted to front board, spine bumped, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, a good copy. Includes a 'Chronology of curious and interesting facts relating to old Van Diemen's Land, and (from 1856) to Tasmania.' Folding b/w frontispiece of floating Bridge, b/w illustrations include penny farthing race in early nineties, 8 oar boat crews, wooden bone shaker bicycles predating the Penny Farthing, much on Yacht racing from 1898 including the Forster Cup, , First Hobart petrol-driven driven motor car and the last of the horse drawn Hobart Cab and Cabman. A cabin boy deserts his ship in 1789 to become the first white settler in Tasmania and does not see another white person for 25 years and much on Martin Cash and his Lady Companion, whaling, Power Stations and much more.

Hobart: J. Walch, 1946. 1st edition. Near Fine. octavo. orig. cloth 208pp., b/w pls., maps, indexes, Sealing, Whaling, Smuggling & Piracy. Wild Men of Van DiemenÕs Land. Bushrangers & Bandits, Wrecks & Wreckers. Nice bright, tight copy

Hobart: J. Walsh and Sons, 1946. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine , Pp 208, Fold Out Frontis, Illustrationssigned By The Author On The Title Page