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297. Davis Charles O. The Maori Lesson Book: An
Elementary Work, intended to facilitate the acquisition of
Maori. Octavo, blue printed wrappers. Auckland, John Henry
Field 1874. BM 812; Davis Charles O. Te Honae; being a
small collection of Temperance, and Sacred Melodies, in Maori.
Octavo, red stiffened cloth covers. Auckland, Evening Star Office
1885, second edition enlarged. BM 1127(2)
$400 – $600
298. Defoe Daniel. He Korero Tipuna Pakeha No Mua,
ko Ropitini Kuruho, The Life and Adventures of Robinson
Crusoe. Translated into the New Zealand language under the
direction of the government, octavo, blue paper cover, frontispiece,
Maori & English title pages, plates, bound in purple gilt cloth.
Wellington, Independent Office, 1852. Translated by H.T. Kemp
it is the first Maori text with specially prepared illustrations.
BM 427
$400 – $800
299. (Hadfield Octavius?). Notes on the Maori
Version of the New Testament No 1 by Sir William Martin.
Octavo, cover title, 2 pages. Auckland, Cathedral Press 1864.
Does not appear to be recorded in any bibliographies. ‘Sir
William Martin’s’ name crossed out and Hadfield’s inserted in
contemporary hand.
$400 – $600
300. (Kemp Henry Tacy) The First Step in Maori
Conversation: a grammar and phrase book of the New Zealand
Language by The Pakeha Maori. Octavo, cover title, original grey
paper cover, back cover lacking, 80 pages. Auckland, G.T. Chapman
[1876] fourth edition. Williams 515; Shortland Edward. How
to Learn Maori. A short treatise on the structure and idiom of
the language. Octavo. Auckland, Upton & Co Auckland 1883.
302, 295, 307, 299
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BM 1095; Williams W.L. First Lesson’s In The Maori
Language with a short vocabulary. Octavo, red cloth boards.
Auckland, Upton & Co 1872. BM 769. (3)
$300 – $600
301. Kendall Thomas. A Grammar and Vocabulary
of the Language of New Zealand. Published by the Church
Missionary Society. Superior paper issue of grammar compiled
with Samuel Lee in England. Octavo, original boards, tear to front
endpaper sensitively re backed and inscribed ‘R.A. Cruise from the
Church Missionary Society’ also ‘F.R. Cruise … Dublin’ written
above title, notes re Kendall neatly inserted inside back cover. Printed
By R. Watts, sold by L.B. Seeley and John Hatchard & Son,
Piccadilly, London, 1820. In later gilt cloth slip case. Professor
Lee at Cambridge was the first to outline the structure of the
Maori language. He was indebted to Kendall then in England
with Hongi and Waikato, using the missionary’s unrivalled
knowledge of the spoken tongue. Also of great significance
being the personal copy of Richard .A. Cruise, whose, Journal
of a Ten Months Residence In New Zealand, published in 1823
is one of the earliest published accounts. Bagnall 3113. BM 2
$2000 – $3000
302. Ko Te Hahi i Mur i a te Karaiti. Sixteen Maori
student’s essays on the early Christian church. Octavo, brown
cloth boards, with printed label, coloured lithograph map of the
Roman Empire with Maori title bound in at end. Signature of
“The Venerable Archdn L Williams” on front endpaper, Akarana
(Auckland) 1863 (Printed at the Cathedral Press?) The students
were lectured by Sir William Martin in Maori on church
history. They were then required to write out his lectures
in Maori. The best composed were included in this book.
Archdeacon Williams obviously did not share Martin’s high
opinion of the pupils work as shown by his personal copy with