RARE BOOK AUCTION 276 COWAN, JAMES Pictures of Old New Zealand [2 titles] The Partridge Collection of Maori Paintings by Gottfried Lindauer. Auckland etc: W & T 1930. [8] l., 215p, [4] l., sepia toned plates. 270mm, bound in original green boards with laid on colour plate, gilt titles, some light marginal mottling else a fine copy. 2. James Cowan - Sketches of Old New Zealand. Descriptive catalogue of Maori Portraits painted by Herr. G. Lindauer. Auckland: Brett Ptg and Pub Co 1901. 68p, 220mm, original maroon binding with gilt titles. VG. $150 - $200 277 DITTMER, W. Te Tohunga; The ancient legends and traditions of the Maoris, orally collected and pictured. London: George Routledge 1907. Frontis and engraved plates after drawings by Dittmer, on heavy paper, small painted initial on corner of front endpaper. 325 mm, bound in original pictorial orange cloth, light foxing front and back few pages and corners knocked else VG. $200 278 DONNE, T. E. The Maori: Past and Present [2 titles] An account of a highly attractive, intelligent people, their doubtful origins their customs & ways of living, art, methods of warfare... London: Seeley Service & Co 1927. 284p, frontis, plates, illustrations and fldg map at end, sprinkle of foxing mostly front and back and edges. 220mm, original blue cloth with gilt hei tiki. VG. 2. Sir Maui Pomare & James Cowan - Legends of the Maori. Wellington: Fine Arts 1930. Illustrations by Stuart Peterson. x [2], 320p. This appears to be a variant issue, complete in itself and unsigned. Page prior to title page appears to have been cut out, else complete.2555mm, original blue cloth, a few light marks, a tidy copy. With the promotional Speciman Page from Maori Patterns, Painted and Carved 1975.Single page with one of the books illustrations verso. $80 - $100 279 GRACE, JOHN TE H. Tuwharetoa A History of the Maori people of the Taupo District. WellIngton: Reed 1959, first edition. 567p, illustrated, endpaper maps. Light sprinkle of foxing, a VG near fine copy. $100 280 GRAHAM, GEORGE Letter and Book Hand written letter to George Graham from Mr Arthur J, Vogan, Arney Road, Remuera, 1922 informing him of the correct history of a Maori carving which the museum had a part of “It is a ‘Pato’ & formed part of a Maori house built for the chief Tauhia...” ...” The Ngatipuhi were attacking the pah so carving was hidden in the mud. Part was found by a man who sold same to museum: he has been ill ever since...” 2. G. Leslie Adkin - Horowhenua its Maori place-names & their topographic & historical background. Wellington: DIA 1948. With Geo Grahams signature and date 3/2/49. xiii, [3]p, 446p, maps at end. 260mm, DJ. $200 - $300 281 GUDGEON, THOMAS WAYTH The History and Doings of the Maoris, From the Year 1820 to the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. Auck: H. Brett 1885. 225p, endpapers browned, contents generally clean, 22cms, original brown publishers cloth with decorative black and gilt titles. $100 - $150 282 HALBERT, RONGOWHAKAATA Horouta: The History of the Horouta Canoe, Gisborne and East Coast. Auckland: Reed Books 1999. 496p,frontis, maps. 290mm fine copy in DJ. $50 - $75.
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283 HAMILTON, AUGUSTUS The Art Workmanship of the Maori Race in New Zealand: A series of illustrations from specially taken photographs with descriptive notes and essays on the canoes, habitations and dress of the Maoris... Wellington 1896 - 1900. Five parts bound into one volume, illustrated with plates.320 mm, large quarto, decorative maroon cloth binding with gilt rafter pattern and titles. Very nice copy. $800 - $1,000 284 MAORI 6 titles. 1. J.A. Wilson - The Story of Te Waharoa.W & T [1906]. xv, 255p, frontis and plates, light foxing. Original pictorial binding. VG. 2. Elsdon Best - The Maori As He Was. Wellington 1924. 280p, illustrated.Original green pictorial cloth, VG. 3. Elsdon Best - The Maori as He Was 1952 reprint.DJ. 4. T. Barrow - The Decorative Arts of the Maori. Reed 1964. 5. Maori Place Names and their Meaning. Reed 1950. 6. Florence Keene - O Te Raki. Pauls Book Arcade 1963. DJ. 7. A.W. Reed - Maui. Wellington: Reed [1943] Illustrated by W. Dittmer. Card booklet. W. J. Phillips - Maori Designs. Wellington: Harry H. Tombs Plus 2 other similar card covered books. $50 - $100 285 OLDMAN Skilled Handwork of the Maori Being the Oldman Collection of Maori Artifacts Illustrated and Described. Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Wellington: The Polynesian Society 1946, second edition.41p, profusely illustrated, original illustrated wrappers, lightly faded. VG. $200 - $300 286 POPE, JAMES H. Health for the Maori A Manual for use in Native Schools. Wellington: Govt Ptr 1884, first edition. 121p, Inscribed [? by J.Pope] on endpaper ‘This little book I can recommend to be read by all Maoris for it will be a health to all who reads and practice them’. Insect holes last few pages. 170mm, original blind stamped cloth. $40 - $60 287 PORTER, COLONEL Legends of the Maori and Personal Reminiscences of the East Coast of New Zealand. Christchurch: L.M. Ismett L td 1926. 94p, frontis and plates. Light owners stamps on prelims. 225mm, brown quarter cloth binding with tiki and black titles, VG. 288 RICHARDS, RHYS Manu Moriori Human and Bird Carvings on live Kopi Trees on the Chatham Islands. Paramata Press 2007. 96p, maps and illustrations, 240 mm, card covers, fine. Scarce. Before traditional Moriori society was overwhelmed by the Maori invasion 1835, Moriori talked to these carvings as an interface through which to speak to their dead ancestors... [back cover] $50 - $75 289 ROBLEY, H.G. Pounamu Notes on New Zealand Greenstone. London: T.J. S. Guilford 1915. Sprinkle of foxing, 250mm, original papered boards with Hei Tiki image and green cloth spine. $300 - $400 290 SMITH, S. PERCY Maori Wars [3 titles] of the nineteenth century. N.Z : W & T 1910, second edition. 490p, illustrated, 190mm, tan cloth, black titles, light wear. 2. Hawaiki: the original home of the Maori. N.Z: W & T 1910. 301p. illustrated, fldg map and fldg Raratonga genealogies. 190mm, green cloth with title labels, marks and light wear. 3. An 1858 Journey Into the Interior. The diary of S.Percy Smith describing a journey from Taranaki to the Taupo & Rotorua
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