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A BURGLAR'S LIFE: A Classic of the Convict
Days….OR …. The Stirring Adventures of the Great English
Burglar, Mark Jeffrey.
H/C + Damaged D/W (Edited
with an introduction by: W. & J. E. Hiener) First
published in 1893. This Edition by Angus & Robertson 1968.
194pp. This book, an autobiography of mark Jeffrey which the
editors rescued provides an unusual self-portrait from obscurity
and restored a fascinating piece of Australiana with searching
interest. The introduction and notes on the man and the times
complete the portrayal of what must surely be the most
unrepentant and self-righteous convict of our history. Good
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A BURGLAR'S LIFE: A Classic of the Convict
Days….OR …. The Stirring Adventures of the Great English
Burglar, Mark Jeffrey. Damaged
/ marked cover - H/C (Edited with an introduction by: W. &
J. E. Hiener) First published in 1893. This Edition by Angus
& Robertson 1968. 194pp. The pages are in good condition.
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PICTORIAL RECORD OF THE FIRST FLEET RE-ENACTMENT VOYAGE: SAILING
HOME. H/C + D/W
(Photographs by: Malcolm Clarke. Text by: David Iggulden) 1st
Edition 1988. 120pp. This book contains excellent photographs of
the voyage and the activities on board of 10 sailing ships en
route to Australia via: Plymouth, Tenerife, Rio de Janeiro, Cape
Town, Mauritius, Fremantle and arriving in Sydney on 25th
January 1988. Very good condition. |
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BAREFOOT AND PREGNANT? - Irish
Famine Orphans in Australia. S/C (Trevor
McClauglin) reprint 1999. 256pp. This is a collection of
documents as well as a register of all the orphans who came to
Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in the 1840 - 1850's and proves
to be an essential reference tool for family historians and
anyone interested in the migration of Irish females during this
time. The author has also included where possible a small
personal history of many orphans as to what eventuated in their
life after arriving in Australia. Excellent condition.
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CLARKE OF THE KINDUR: Convict,
Bushranger, Explorer. H/C + D/W (Dean
Boyce) 1st Edition 1970. 100pp. Was George Clarke, alias
"The Barber" who lived for 5 years among the
Aborigines in New South Wales in the early 1800's, the first
white man to cross Australia to the north coast? This biography
traces his history from his transportation in 1824 for robbery,
through his escape from the Hunter valley and life with the
Kamilaroi tribe, to his capture in 1831, subsequent imprisonment
at Norfolk Island and death on the gallows in Van Dieman's Land.
The author examines the evidence concerning Clarke's claim to
have crossed the continent and to have discovered a great inland
river, the "Kindur" or "desired blessing".
This report prompted Major Thomas Mitchell's expedition in
1931-32. Ex lib. Very good condition.
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CONVICT DOCUMENTS.
Folder. Tasmanian
Archives 1978.
Contains selection of 15 pages of reproduced convict documents
used in Tasmania. New condition.
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WORKERS: Reinterpreting Australia's Past. H/C
+ D/W (Edited by: Stephen Nicholas)
1st Edition 1988. 246pp. This book offers a radical new
interpretation of Australia's convict past, based on an
exhaustive and detailed analysis of records of 20,000 male and
female convicts - one in three of those transported to New South
Wales between 1817 and 1840. By illuminating the contribution of
the convict workers to Australia's economic and social
development, a fresh historical understanding of Australia's
convict past emerges with new insights into the history of
British, Irish and Australian history and society of the 19th
century. Ex lib. Good condition. |
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CONVICTS.
A School Project for study, reference work and cutting up
at home or school. A Peter Leyden's Resource
Book No. 6. New condition - Multiple copies available.
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CONVICTS OF LINCOLNSHIRE.
Large booklet (Lincolnshire
County Council, U. K.) 16pp.
Filled with a background history, illustrations and photographs.
Also includes an alphabetical Index (18pp) of names of convicts
transported from the County of Lincolnshire to Australia between
1789 and 1840. This publication cannot be purchased in
Australia. Brand new condition.
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EARLY AUSTRALIA - WITH SHAME
REMEMBERED. Paperback
(Bill Beatty) Seal Paperback 1978.
212pp. An account of the early and wild convict days in
Australia. Good condition. Special.
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FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL
LIFE. Paperback
(Marcus Clarke) Lloyd O'Neil No date. 445pp. This story
was originally published in 1874. The author, Marcus Clarke
visited Tasmania in in 1869 to write an account of convict
times. The result was this book in which much of the detail of
the penal system was undoubtedly based on actual records -
skilfully dramatised and woven into the story of Rufus Dawes'
terrible ordeal. This book was subsequently made as a television
series. Good condition.
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FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL
LIFE. Paperback
(Marcus Clarke) Angus & Robertson Reprint 1980.
446pp. . Very good condition.
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FOR THE TERM OF HIS NATURAL
LIFE. Paperback
(Marcus Clarke) Specially condensed Illustrated Edition.
1983. 355pp. . Good condition.
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LAGS & LEGIRONS.
H/C (G.
Mackeness) 1944.
117pp. This is an
account of some notorious convicts and others of their
activities in Australia including New South Wales and Norfolk
Island. Scarce. Good
condition. |
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LANDED ENTERPRISE and PENAL
SOCIETY: A History of Farming and Grazing in New South Wales
before 1821.
H/C + D/W
(Brian H. Fletcher)
1st Edition 1976.
265pp. This
book provides a systematic study that examines the whole range
of farming and grazing activities, relating them to each other
and to the overall development of New South Wales. It begins
with an examination of British land policy and goes on to
consider the role of government as well as private interests in
the field of primary production. There are valuable chapters on
the farming activities of officers, migrants and emancipists and
an illuminating discussion of the policies of successive
governors. Attention is given to major industries such as wheat,
cattle and wool as well as to lesser branches of agriculture.
Highly informative. Scarce.
Good condition.
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25.00
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MOONDYNE JOE - The Man and the
Myth. S/C
(Ian Elliot) 1998 Reprint of 1978 Edition with new material,
148pp. Joseph Bolitho Johns—convict and escapee,
bushranger, legend in Western Australia
and now a folk hero. Mint condition.
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ORPHANS OF HISTORY: The
Forgotten Children of the First Fleet.
S/C (Robert Holden) 1999. 219pp. In this book the
author describes the lives of these forgotten young colonists:
their grim existence in the slums of London, their astonishing
experiences in its courts and prisons and their uncertain future
in their strange new home. There is much to read here. Near new
condition.
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PATRICK LOGAN: Tyrant of Brisbane Town. H/C
+ D/W (Charles
Bateson) 1st Edition, 1966. 190pp.This is a detailed and
documented study of a man who was an enigma to his
contemporaries as well as to posterity. This book also
recaptures the colourful past of this man who is to be
remembered for his harshness of his rule as Commandant of the
penal / convict settlement at Moreton Bay, later to become the
city of Brisbane in Queensland.
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PATRICK LOGAN: Tyrant of
Brisbane Town. H/C
+ D/W (Charles
Bateson) 1st Edition, 1966. 190pp. Good condition.
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PENAL PENINSULA.
H/C + D/W
(Ian Brand) 1st Edition 1978. 226pp.
This outstanding book tells the story of Port Arthur and
its Outstations: 1827 to 1898. Illustrated.
Good condition. |
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PENAL PENINSULA. S/C
(Ian Brand) Reprint - No date.
226pp. Good
condition.
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REGULATIONS OF THE PENAL
SETTLEMENT AT PORT ARTHUR.
Booklet (H. A. Evans & Son)
1966. 25pp. This is a most interesting booklet as it
contains the rules and regulations that had to be adhered to by:
The Commandant, The Superintendent, Medical Officer,
Storekeeper, Officers, Convicts, Marine Department and not
forgetting the List of returns which had to be submitted of
nearly everything that was used, given away and a lot, lot more.
(We think we have too much red tape to get through in the 21st
century .... they, in my opinion, had a lot, lot more !)
Ex lib. Good condition.
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THE CRIMES OF THE FIRST FLEET CONVICTS.
S/C (J.
Cobley) Reprint
1985. . 324pp. A
comprehensive register of the First Fleet convicts and their
crimes and sentences. Each entry contains all the information on
each convict. A
remarkable piece of research and a valuable historical record.
Mint condition. |
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THE CURRENCY LASS: A Tale of the Convict
Days.
H/C - cover worn & 1 page slightly torn.
(James Devaney)
1st Edition, 1927.
239pp. This
is a tale of a settlement called "The Quarries"
in the convict days and the activities that took place
and further afield. It is based on occasions with true facts and
put together as a "factual novel". One of the early
convict-type book published. Good reading !
Good condition otherwise. Scarce.
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THE FLOATING BROTHEL: The
extraordinary story of the Lady Julian (Juliana) and its cargo
of female convicts bound for Botany Bay.
S/C
(Sian Rees) Reprint,
2001. 248pp. This is the story of more than 200 convict women
from Newgate gaol in London who were transported to Port
Jackson, New South Wales and arrived healthier and happier than
before they left. It portrays the story of John Nicol a steward
and ship's cooper on the voyage who fell in love with 19 year
old Sarah Whitelam. Their child who was born on the voyage.
After arriving, no one knew where they went and whatever
happened to them. This lively and refreshing may hold the clue.
Ex lib. Good condition.
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THE IRISH EXILES IN AUSTRALIA.
H/C + Damaged D/W (T. J. Kiernan)
1st Edition 1954. 196pp. This is a story of the Irish who
went in convict ships to Australia is a sad story with a happy
ending. Australian democracy, no less than the foundation of the
Catholic Church in Australia, derived from the Defenders and the
1798 and 1803 men who were sent to Van Dieman's Land, the last
of whom were at the left that isle as the first wave of
post-Famine was beginning; and the story of the Eureka Stockade
seems but a continuation of Irish history, though something so
strange in the Australian context that it is still a matter of
controversial interpretation by Australian commentators. The
book ends, as it begins, with the tale of the convict ships; for
the very last of these human cargo-boats brought to Western
Australia the Fenian felons who leader was John Boyle O'Reilly.
and subsequent events. Scarce.
The book itself is in near mint condition. |
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THE
REBEL OF GLENMALURE: A History of Michael
Dwyer. H/C
(George Cargeeg) 1988. 118pp. This is
the story of Michael Dwyer, patriot, his life in Ireland and
Australia, his trial and exile.
Charged with Rebellion he was sent to Norfolk Island
until his release to his farm in New South Wales where he died
in 1825. Faded cover. Pages are in very good condition. Special
price.
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THROUGH THE EYES OF THOMAS PAMPHLETT: Convict
and Castaway. S/C -
Large format. (Chris Pearce)
1st Edition 1993. 188pp. The everyday lives of Pamphlett
and other ordinary people in such diverse places as Manchester,
a convict ship, a chain gang, Sydney, Newcastle, Hawkesbury area
and Brisbane. A history of this convict who landed at Moreton
Bay, Queensland. Maps and illustrations throughout. Very good
condition. |
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TRANSPORTED: IN PLACE OF
DEATH: Convicts in Australia. H/C
+ D/W (Christopher
Sweeney) 1st Edition 1981. 185pp.
This book presents a lively panoply of the new colony and
the thriving life that surrounded its black core of convict
life. Very informative ! Excellent
condition.
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UNWILLING EMIGRANTS.
H/C + D/W (A. Hasluck) 1st Edition 1959. 165pp.
A study of the convict period in Western Australia. Ex
lib. Good condition except for some tape marks on the front and
back covers. Special. |
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