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217. Wilson John A. Missionary Life and Work in New
Zealand 1833 to 1862. Being the private journal of the late
John Alexander Wilson edited by C.J. Wilson, printed for
private circulation only. Octavo, no frontispiece portrait as called
for in Bagnall 6140, gilt half calf, marbled boards. Auckland, The
Star Office 1889
$200 – $400
218. Wilson John A. The Story of Te Waharoa in Three
Parts a Chapter in Early New Zealand History. Octavo, quarto
red cloth, turquoise stiffened paper covers. Auckland, Daily Southern
Cross Office 1866. Outline of events in the life of the Ngatihaua
Chief Te Waharoa recording the horrors inter tribal conflicts.
Bagnall 6143
$100 – $200
219. Yate William. An Account of New Zealand and the
formation and progress of the Church Missionary Society’s
mission in the northern island. Octavo, original gilt cloth,
frontispiece portrait, folding map, plates, including one hand coloured
of the first New Zealand flag, lacking front endpaper. London, R
& B Seeley and W Burnside, Second edition 1835. Bagnall 6206
His main responsibilities were with the Maori language. An
important account.
$80 – $100
Maori History
220 229
220. Angas george French. The New Zealanders
Illustrated. Folio, two volumes, dedication page, pictorial title
page and 60 lithograph plates all finely hand coloured from Angas’s
original sketches and paintings. Bound in early green gilt panelled
half calf, dedication and pictorial title and several plates spotted
otherwise a clean copy, inner joints professionally strengthened
with red leather, covers slightly faded, oval collectors stamp of early
29
Hawkes Bay station owner, ‘R. [Richard] Harding, Raukawa,
Hastings’ inside front covers. London, Thomas McLean, 26
Haymarket 1847. Provenance, Private Collection. This
splendid record of the artist’s New Zealand travels rates as one
of the most impressive colour plate books produced during the
exploration period. A good set. Bagnall 114
$12000 – $15 000
221. (Baucke William.) Where The White Man Treads
by W.B. Te Kuiti. Octavo, dark green gilt pictorial cloth, dust
wrapper, frontispiece portrait. Auckland, Wilson & Horton, second
revised edition 1928. Bagnall B398; (Baucke William) 79 page
Scrap Book of his articles re Maori history and correspondence
from and to the author 1928/29 tipped in. (2)
$200 – $400
222. Best Elsdon. The Stone Implements of the Maori;
The Pa Maori; The Maori Canoe; Games and Pastimes of the
Maori; Maori Agriculture. Dominion Museum Bulletins Nos
4, 6, 7, 8, 9, quarto, pink title wrappers, No 4 bound in full gilt
leather, Whitcombe & Tombs First editions, 1912-1925 (5)
$200 – $400
223. Best Elsdon. The Maori. Two volumes, octavo, plates,
grey cloth. Wellington, Harry H. Tombs 1924, first edition.
Loosely inserted is a one page signed letter from the author re
the various Maori names for the South Island. Bagnall B736
$100 – $150
224. Buddle Thomas. The Maori King Movement in
New Zealand, with a full report of the native meetings held at
Waikato, April and May, 1860. Octavo, pale yellow paper covers.
“New Zealander” Office Auckland 1860. A rare item. The author
saw the implications of settler anxiety for land as well as Maori
political organisation. Bagnall 740
$500 – $800