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Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 2006. 750 copies only. Large 8vo; x, 138pp, frontis, 8pp b&w illustrations, folding route map. Cloth-textured papered boards with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528337 *** This study publishes, for the first time, the field journals of two of Leichhardt's party on the famed Port Essington expedition - the convict William Phillips and the 15/16 year-old John Murphy - along with commentary and notes. .

Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 1983. 750 numbered and signed copies. 292pp, illustrations, maps. Lettered cloth with pictorial glassine dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0 908528 11 6 .

Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 1986. 1000 numbered and signed copies. 296pp, illustrations, maps. Blue linen, gilt decoration and titles, with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528140 ***The previously unpublished journal of Mitchell's second-in-command, with commentary. .

Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 1992. 1000 copies. 402pp, illustrations, maps. Cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 090852823X .

Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 1990. 600 signed and numbered copies. Small 4to. 334pp, illustrated. Blue buckram with dustwrapper. A very good clean copy. ISBN 0908528191 ***With the previously unpublished journals of Leichhardt and his later critic Hovenden Hely, and 42 contemporary drawings by Conrad Martens, George Fairholme and expedition member John Mann. .

Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 2020. Published in an edition of 500 copies. 8vo. xvi, 222pp; well illustrated in colour and b&w. Blue buckram with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 090852837X ***The Tasmanian years of the first Anglican Bishop, Francis Russell Nixon (1842-63), and his wife Anna Maria Woodcock. The study concerns not only the Bishop's role as the colony's leading churchman, but the couple's personal stories, and especially their under-acknowledged contribution to colonial art. The book's numerous illustrations include over forty of their own works, brought together for the first time. .

Hobart,: Blubber Head Press. 1980. 375 numbered copies, signed by the author. Demy 4to. 312pp, full-page illustrations (the cartoons). Maroon buckram, gilt Mr Punch device on the upper board, with the dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528051 ***From the six distinct Punch magazines published in Tasmania. .

Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 1980. 600 numbered copies, signed by the editor. Foolscap folio. 166pp, frontis portrait and two colour plates (tipped-in), other illustrations, endpaper maps. Blue buckram with dustwrapper. A very good to fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528035 ***Captain Tregurtha ended his career sailing from the port of Launceston in northern Tasmania. .

Hobart: Blubber Head Press. 1996. 1000 copies, signed by Max Angus. Square 4to. 132pp, 51 colour plates, pictorial endpapers. Blue cloth with dustwrapper. A fine clean copy. ISBN 0908528280 ***The first part is a survey of the medium of watercolour, from its origins in Europe, through its flowering in England in the 18th & 19th centuries, to its role in the topographical recording of Australian colonies. The second part (to some extent autobiographical, with many examples of the author's own work), discusses the medium in modern Australia. .