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250. Robley Major general Horatio g. Pounamu. Notes
on New Zealand Greenstone. Quarto, original green linen backed
boards with tipped on Tiki, illustrations. London, T.J.S. Guilford
1915. Inscribed presentation copy from (Sir) Douglas Mc Lean
(Maraekakaho) Hawke’s Bay who paid for its publication and to
whose wife the book is dedicated.
$400 – $500
251. Roth H Ling. The Maori Mantle. With over 250
line illustrations and diagrams and 22 collotype plates, edition
limited to 120 copies. Small quarto, original purple gilt cloth.
Halifax Bankfield Museum 1923. Bagnall R1027; Also loosely
inserted ‘Some Unrecorded Maori Decorative Work by H
Ling Roth’. Green paper covers, (Reprinted from “Man” 1920,
39) Royal Anthropological Institute 1920. (2)
$250 – $350
252. Shortland Edward. The Southern Districts of
New Zealand; a journal, with passing notices of the customs
of the aborigines. Octavo, original gilt cloth, frontispiece folding
map, illustrations in text, plates, table, maps. London, Longman
Brown 1851. Much detail on Maori customs, culture etc in the
southern half of the South Island. The most significant general
work on the area prior to the settlement of Otago. Bagnall
5162. Rare
$200 – $300
253. Shortland Edward. Traditions and Superstitions of
the New Zealanders; with illustrations of their manners and
customs. Small octavo, original red cloth, slight chipping to joints of
spine cover, folding genealogical tables. Auckland, Longman 1854
Bagnall 5163
$150 – $300
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254. Shortland Edward. Maori Religion and Mythology.
Illustrated by translations of traditions, karakia etc. to which
are added notes on Maori tenure of land. Octavo, original cloth.
London, Longmans 1882. Bagnall 5160 Written with a highly
unusual degree of accuracy and rapport unusual for the period;
Shortland Edward. A Short Sketch of the Maori Races. Cover
title, linen backed boards. No imprint, (Dunedin 1865?) Bagnall
5161 [2]
$100 – $200
255. Smith S Percy. History and Traditions of the Maoris
of the West Coast, North Island New Zealand prior to 1840.
Octavo, original red leather, plates, maps. Printed for the Polynesian
Society New Plymouth 1910. A history from traditional and
European sources with emphasis on the early nineteenth
century. Bagnall S1061
$200 – $500
256. Smith S Percy. The Peopling of the North; notes
on the ancient Maori history of the northern peninsula and
sketches of the history of Ngati-whatua tribe of Kaipara New
Zealand. Octavo, blue cloth, folding map, signature of George
Graham pioneer and Maori scholar on title page, tear to sub title not
effecting text. (New Plymouth Polynesian Society 1897) Bagnall
S1064
$150 – $300
257. Smith S Percy. Wars of the Northern against the
Southern Tribes of New Zealand in the Nineteenth Century.
Octavo, blue cloth, title page spotted. Wellington, Whitcombe &
Tombs 1904, first edition. Bagnall S1066
$150 – $300
258. Ward John P. Wanderings with the Maori Prophets
Te Whiti & Tohu; (with illustrations of each chief ) being a
reminiscence of a twelve months’ companionship with them,
from their arrival in Christchurch in April 1882, until their
return to Parihaka in March 1883. Octavo, blue paper covers,
portraits, advertisements. Nelson, Bond, Finney & Co 1883.
Sympathetic account of Te Whiti and Tohu’s year in custody
after their seizure at Parihaka. Bagnall 5869
$200 – $400
259. Webster Kenneth A. The Armytage Collection of
Maori Jade. Photography by John Queensborough. Octavo,
mottled green linen backed boards, plates, relevant news clippings
etc, mounted and loosely inserted. London, The Cable Press 1948;
Chapman F.R. On the Working of Greenstone or Nephrite
by the Maori. 61 pages from Trans NZI 1891, annotated by
Johannes Anderson, mounted on front endpaper, an inscribed
presentation copy of E.W. Kane’s list of “ different grades set out in
their order of value” a gift to Anderson from Sir Owen Dixson (
Mitchell Library). Correspondence between Dixson and Anderson
re greenstone is included. Bound in linen backed marbled boards. (2)
$450 – $550