Pioneer Shipping of Tasmania : Whaling, Sealing, Piracy, Shipwrecks, etc. in Early Tasmania
by Norman. L. : preface by Hon.A.G.Ogilvie, Premier of Tasmania:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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Clunes, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Hobart: J.Walch ( 1938) first edtion. hardcover, blue-grey cloth, no dust jacket as issued, plate of sailing ship adhered to front cover, 220pp, including indices, black and white illustrations and photographs, previous owner's bookplate and embossed stamp to front endpaper, small holes in spine, some minor insect damage to rear free endpaper, otherwise all in very good clean and tight condition. No ISBN
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- Book Fossicker (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24451
- Title
- Pioneer Shipping of Tasmania : Whaling, Sealing, Piracy, Shipwrecks, etc. in Early Tasmania
- Author
- Norman. L. : preface by Hon.A.G.Ogilvie, Premier of Tasmania:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hobart: J.Walch ( 1938) first edtion
- Keywords
- shipping Tasmania whaling maritime history
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Book Fossicker
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Clunes, Victoria
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After selling from a street address for the past 8 years, we are now based again as an on-line only business. Postal address is now PO Box 81 Clunes Victoria 3370. I am an experienced bookseller, having sold secondhand books for over 30 years in various ways and from various locations, and intend to keep providing the same standard of expertise and knowledge into the future. * PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF POSTAL ADDRESS
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