Tassie Book Sales

Tassie Book Sales Eclectic selection of pre-loved and new books of interest

🇦🇺A-Z OF CONVICTS IN VAN DIEMENS LAND by SIMON BARNARD (Hardcover)💫Up for sale is a copy of A-Z of Convicts in Van Dieme...
16/08/2026

🇦🇺A-Z OF CONVICTS IN VAN DIEMENS LAND by SIMON BARNARD (Hardcover)

💫Up for sale is a copy of A-Z of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land written and illustrated by Simon Barnard. This award-winning book offers a visually striking and meticulously detailed historical overview of Australia's early penal history. It features exceptional illustrations that chronicle the true personal histories and daily lives of the men, women, and children transported to Tasmania. Perfect for history buffs, educators, or collectors of beautifully illustrated resource books.

✅️Very Good condition with vibrant cover art and clean pages (as pictured).

🌀Format:Oversized large format hardcover

✅️Publisher: The Text Publishing Company.
88 pages

💲25

🏛Conveniently located in Bellerive Tas 7018 or happy to post at buyers expense

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Soldpp👀Looking for a rare piece of Tasmanian history? 💫Up for grabs is a beautiful hardcover copy of "MUNICIPAL MAGNIFIC...
16/08/2026

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👀Looking for a rare piece of Tasmanian history?

💫Up for grabs is a beautiful hardcover copy of "MUNICIPAL MAGNIFICENCE: THE HOBART TOWN HALL 1866–2016".

✅️This specific copy is hand-signed by the prominent author and architectural historian Peter Freeman, making it a unique collector's item! Written alongside Brendan Lennard and Kathryn Evans, this book is filled with incredible archival photographs, rich architectural insights, and the definitive history of one of Hobart's most iconic landmarks.

💲55

🇦🇺279 page hardcover with dustjacket

✅️Condition: Excellent
Pages are crisp, binding is tight, and the cover artwork is beautifully preserved.

✅️Format: Hardcover / Large format coffee table book.Perfect for: Local historians, architecture lovers, or anyone proud of Hobart's heritage.

🏛Conveniently located in Bellerive Tas 7018 or happy to post on request :)

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Soldpp💫Rare 93-Year-Old Vintage Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (J. Coker & Co., 1933) – All Color Plates Intact!💲50🐇Do...
16/08/2026

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💫Rare 93-Year-Old Vintage Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (J. Coker & Co., 1933) – All Color Plates Intact!

💲50

🐇Down the rabbit hole! Up for sale is a beautiful, highly collectable 1933 hardcover edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, published in London by J. Coker & Co. Ltd..
At nearly a century old, this is a spectacular find for vintage book collectors. This specific edition is hard to find and highly prized for its unique visual style. It features a vibrant, wrap-around pictorial cover by G. Micklewright and contains beautiful full-page color plates inside by celebrated children's illustrator Bessie Pease.

✅️Condition Details:
Color Plates: 100% complete and intact. All internal color illustrations are clean, bright, and in excellent condition.
Cover & Binding: The pictorial boards show some typical vintage shelf wear and age-related rub marks, but the front graphic presents beautifully with strong color contrast. The binding is structurally sound and firm.
Interior Pages: Natural light browning/toning around the paper margins consistent with a book from the 1930s, but pages remain crisp and readable. No major rips or missing text.
A fantastic shelf piece for any Alice collector or lover of Golden Age children's books

✅️Conveniently located in Bellerive Tas 7018 or happy to post on request

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Soldpp💫THE SARAH ISLAND CONSPIRACIES by RICHARD DAVEY (2013 3rd Revised Edition) - Very Good Condition💲15✅️Selling a cop...
16/08/2026

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💫THE SARAH ISLAND CONSPIRACIES by RICHARD DAVEY (2013 3rd Revised Edition) - Very Good Condition

💲15

✅️Selling a copy of the highly sought-after, out-of-print Tasmanian history book, The Sarah Island Conspiracies: Being an Account of Twelve Voyages Made by one GK to Macquarie Harbour by Richard Innes Davey.
This is the updated 2013 Third Revised Edition printed locally in Hobart by Print Applied Technology.

👀Item Details:
Author: Richard Innes Davey
Publisher: The Round Earth Company (2013)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 209 pages
Condition: Very Good used condition. The cover is clean with straight edges, the spine is uncreased, and the pages are entirely crisp and unmarked (no annotations or personal inscriptions)A fantastic read or collector's item for anyone interested in early Australian colonial history, Tasmanian convict settlements, or maritime shipping records.

🏛Conveniently located in Bellerive Tas 7018 or happy to post on request

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✨️LE CREUSET !! ❤️VINTAGE 1970s FRENCH COOKWARE BOOKLET LOT (3) - ⭐️Le Creuset, Cousances, Pillivuyt by Irena Chalmers💲2...
14/08/2026

✨️LE CREUSET !!

❤️VINTAGE 1970s FRENCH COOKWARE BOOKLET LOT (3) -

⭐️Le Creuset, Cousances, Pillivuyt by Irena Chalmers

💲25 for the 3

👀Add a touch of retro charm to your kitchen collection with this lot of 3 vintage promotional cookware booklets from the mid-1970s. Written by noted culinary author Irena Chalmers and published by Potpourri Press, these are highly sought-after ephemera pieces for collectors of classic French kitchen brands.

🌀What is included:
✅️Le Creuset Cookbook (1975) – Filled with classic cast iron staple recipes.
✅️Cousances: Cooking in the Doufeu Oven (1977) – Tailored guidance for self-basting slow cooking.
✅️Pillivuyt: Cooking in French Porcelain – Includes recipes for fine porcelain ware (and a fun period-accurate microwave cooking section!).

✅️Good used vintage condition. All pages are clean, intact, and fully readable. Show authentic vintage character with light edge wear and minor shelf scuffing along the covers as pictured.

✨️Perfect display or reference items for any mid-century kitchen enthusiast!

🏛Located in Bellerive Tas 7018 or happy to post on request

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Soldpp🇦🇺LIFEBLOOD OF A COLONY A HISTORY OF IRRIGATION IN TASMANIA(Hardcover, 1994) 32 years old with original price tags...
14/08/2026

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🇦🇺LIFEBLOOD OF A COLONY A HISTORY OF IRRIGATION IN TASMANIA

(Hardcover, 1994) 32 years old with original price tags – Very Good Condition
Limited run of 1000 copies

💲30

✅️Up for sale is a fantastic copy of the highly regarded, out-of-print historical reference book: Lifeblood of a Colony: A History of Irrigation in Tasmania by Margaret Mason-Cox. Published in 1994 by the Rivers & Water Supply Commission, this beautifully illustrated book is an essential piece of Australiana for local history buffs, agricultural enthusiasts, and collectors alike

👀Item Specifications:
Format: Hardcover with original dust jacket
Page Count: 202 pages (fully indexed)
Publication Date: 1994
ISBN: 978-0724641383
Condition:Very Good pre-owned condition. The hard cover is tight and solid. The text pages inside are crisp, completely clean, and free of any writing, highlighting, or dog-ears. The dust jacket shows only minimal shelf wear from age.

🏛Conveniently located in Bellerive Tas 7018 or happy to post on request :)

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Soldpp🇦🇺A FRAGILE BALANCE: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF AUSTRALIAN MARSUPIALS (Second Edition) – ⭐️246 page hardcover in e...
14/08/2026

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🇦🇺A FRAGILE BALANCE: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF AUSTRALIAN MARSUPIALS (Second Edition) –

⭐️246 page hardcover in excellent Condition

💲50

⭐️Up for sale is a beautiful, second-edition hardcover copy of A Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials by Christopher Dickman. This renowned volume won the prestigious Whitley Medal and features stunning, lifelike watercolor illustrations by Rosemary Woodford Ganf.
This updated second edition includes information on newly recognized species and updated conservation statuses, making it a highly sought-after collector's item and reference guide for wildlife lovers, students, or mammalogists.

👀Condition Details:
Overall State: Excellent / Like New.Cover & Spine: Completely intact, strong binding, and no visible wear or scuffing.
Pages: Crisp, clean, completely unmarked, with no highlights, rips, or dog-ears.

☎️Feel free to send a message if you have any questions or want to see more photos of specific pages!

🏛Conveniently located in Bellerive Tas 7018 or happy to post on request :)

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🇦🇺TASMANIA: AN INTENSE SCRUTINY: STEWART WELLS✅️Pre-loved, large format hardcover with dustwrapper in excellent conditio...
13/08/2026

🇦🇺TASMANIA: AN INTENSE SCRUTINY: STEWART WELLS

✅️Pre-loved, large format hardcover with dustwrapper in excellent condition throughout. Filled with aerial and other photographs of Tasmanias superb sites and locales

💲15

Essay by Greg Lehman

105 colour images

A very good clean copy.

A study of the changes wrought by humans on the Tasmanian environment.

🏛Conveniently located in Bellerive Tas 7018 or happy to post on request

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🇦🇺SIGNED COPY - THE CARAVAN MOVES ON: PAINTINGS by ELIZABETH BARHAM (Hardcover, 2014) - LIMITED RUN OF 500 COPIES‼️Rare ...
13/08/2026

🇦🇺SIGNED COPY - THE CARAVAN MOVES ON: PAINTINGS by ELIZABETH BARHAM (Hardcover, 2014) - LIMITED RUN OF 500 COPIES

‼️Rare Tasmanian Gothic Art

💲50

❤️(Highly collectable signed edition)

⭐️Up for sale is a rare, beautifully compiled art monograph titled "The Caravan Moves On: Paintings by Elizabeth Barsham." Published in 2014, this highly collectable hardcover edition explores the early career and striking "Tasmanian Gothic" style of renowned artist Elizabeth Barsham.

👀SPECIAL FEATURE: This copy is hand-signed and inscribed by the artist herself, dated November 24, 2014 ("To Paul with best wishes from E Barsham 24 Nov 14"). A true collector's piece.

✅️Spanning 118 pages, this book features 100 high-quality, full-colour illustrations of her surreal, atmospheric, and folklore-inspired paintings. A must-have collection for lovers of surrealism, Australian fine art, or regional Tasmanian history.

✅️Format: Hardcover
Features: Hand-signed and dated by Elizabeth Barsham
Page Count: 118 pages
Condition: Very Good used condition.

✅️The internal pages are crisp, clean, and completely unmarked with tight binding.
Nice eample. Clean,, vibrant colours throughout

🏛Conveniently located in Bellerive Tas 7018 or happy to post on

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🇦🇺TASMANIA'S VANISHING TOWNS BY MICHAEL HOLMES (Paperback)🇦🇺💲25👀Good used condition265 page large paperback , photograph...
13/08/2026

🇦🇺TASMANIA'S VANISHING TOWNS BY MICHAEL HOLMES (Paperback)🇦🇺

💲25

👀Good used condition
265 page large paperback , photographs throughout

💫Are you a history buff, a 4WD explorer, or just love a good ghost story? This is the ultimate guide to Tasmania's forgotten history.
Written by meticulously researched local author Michael Holmes, this book covers over 300 vanishing towns, settlements, and abandoned paper towns across Tassie. It is packed with fascinating local lore, historical facts, and incredible old photos tracking the wild history of places like Adamsfield, Balfour, and Gormanston.

✨️Format: Quality trade paperback
Page Count: 265 pages of pure Australian history
✅️Condition Details: Lightly read with minimal cover wear. Pages are clean, intact, and the binding is completely solid.

💕Perfect coffee table addition or a brilliant 2nd hand gift for anyone obsessed with Australian heritage and abandoned places!

🏛Conveniently located in Bellerive Tas 7018... (the home of the best coffee shops on the Eastern Shore ) or happy to post

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