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280. Williams Thomas C. The Manawatu Purchase
Completed or The Treaty of Waitangi Broken. Octavo, wrappers
lacking. London, Williams & Norgate 1868. Demonstrates there
was another side to the official line on the happy Parewanui
meeting. Bagnall 6088; A Page from the History of a Record
Reign. Octavo, paper covers, folding map. Wellington, McKee
& Co 1899. Defence of missionary land purchases and of
Maori interests in Manawatu and Horowhenua blocks Bagnall
W1302.
$200 – $400
281. [Wilson John A?]. How the Native Land Court and
Land Purchase Department behave on the East Coast. A Series
of Letters from “An Occasional Correspondent”. Octavo, 40
pages, cover title. Auckland, William Atkin 1877. Bagnall 4312
$150 – $300
Early Maori Language Printings
and Publications
282. Bagnall A.g & Petersen g.C. William Colenso.
Printer, Missionary, Botanist, Explorer, Politician. His Life and
Journeys. Cloth, dust wrapper, frontispiece portrait, plates, map,
signature of A.G. Bagnall on title page, news clippings mounted on
front endpaper. Wellington, A.H. & A.W. Reed 1948. Bagnall
B25
$100 – $200
283. Bible New Testament. Maori 1838. Ko Te
Kawenata Hou o To Tatou Ariki Te Kai Wakora A Ihu Karaiti.
First edition of the complete New Testament in Maori. Octavo,
original black cloth, variant with no contents list printed on verso
of title page, front cover weak along joints, otherwise in original
condition. Paihia, Church Missionary Society, 1837. Translated
mainly by William Williams. The first full sized book published
in New Zealand was printed over several months by Colenso
with the assistance of two crew members from an American
whaler who had some printing experience. Considering the
primitive conditions in which it was produced and the high
quality of the printing it represents a major achievement. The
immediate demand for the book and its influence among the
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Maoris was immense in raising standards of literacy alone. BM
45
$1000 – $2000
284. Bible. Old Testament. Daniel 1-1V. Maori First
six chapters of Daniel, and the complete text of Jonah. Heavy
grey paper cover. Paihia, printed by William Colenso, Church
Missionary Society. Early note mounted on title regarding
contents and enclosed rare uncut Waitangi, Hawke’s Bay
mission communion tickets (Colenso BM 332) loosely inserted.
1840. BM 66 (2)
$300 – $500
285. Bible, Old Testament. Exodus 1-XX. Maori,
Ekoruhe, selections from Exodus and Deuteronomy. Cover
title, coarse brown paper covers. Paihia, Church Missionary Society
1840 BM 103; Wilberforce Samuel. Agathos, a story of the
children, a sermon. Waimate 1843. BM190 (2)
$300 – $600
286. Bible. Ko Te Paipera Tapu. First complete Maori
Bible. Thick octavo, black morocco leather bindings with blind
tooling, gilt title, gilt edged, covers rubbed in parts. Ranana,
A.W.M. Watts, 1868. BM 716
$500 – $800
287. Catholic Church. Catholic Prayer Book with
catechisms, hymns, and the Gospel of Matthew. Octavo, full
leather binding, title with illustration of (Madonna and Child)
also wood cut frontispiece plate ( da Vinci, Last Supper binding,
] Kororareka 1847. Possibly the first print produced in N.Z.
Maori pupils name inscribed in contemporary mission hand on
top margin, annotations in text. BM 327
$300 – $500
288. Church of England. Book of Common Prayer, with
hymns. Ko Te Pukapuka O Nga Inoinga. Octavo, original cloth,
covers rubbed, 141 pages, imprint Ko te Wakamutunga tenei,
Nowema 1841 on verso of final page, then unpaginated section of
42 hymns. Paihia, Church Missionary Society 1840. Appears to
be a variation of BM 73
$400 – $800