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Published by He Mea Ta I Te Perehi O Nga Mihanere, Paihia, 1840
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. A little wear to margins of covers, including a 1/2" tear to margin of rear cover. Pencil marginalia on front wrapper. Insitutional rubber stamp on inside of front wrapper. Foxing to title page. Some foxing to margins throughout. Leaves unopened at upper edges.; 32 pages. Original thick grey paper cover. This is a translation of the first seven chapers of the book of Daniel, together with the book of Jonah. The first six chapters of Daniel had been previously published (as BIM 66; Williams 43). This is the first appearance in Maori of the seventh chapter of Daniel. "The second issue of Puckey's translation of the books of Daniel and Jonah as reviesd by [William] Colenso, with Colenso's translation of the seventh chapter of Daniel added" - BIM 67. [Bibliographical references: BIM 67 (Books in Maori 1815-1900. Auckland: Reed Books, 2004); Williams 44 ("A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900". Wellington: Government Printer, 1975)].
Published by I Taia Tenei Pukapuka Mo Te Bible Society, Ranana [London], 1858
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Moderate rubbing and fading to boards. Spine cloth faded. A small 3/8" chip to cloth at tip of lower corner of front board. ; The Old Testament books from Proverbs through Malachi. Text in Te Reo Maori. [4], 377 pages. Original blind-stamped purple cloth boards. "Kawenata Tawhito" in blind-stamped letters in the centre of the front board. Pale yellow endpapers. Page dimensions: 182 x 103mm. Some pencil notations on front endpaper. [Bibliographical Reference: BIM 470 - "prepared from the revised probationary texts of [Robert] Maunsell's translation [. . .] the third and final volume of the BFBS [British and Foreign Bible Society] edition of the Old Testament; the earlier volumes were the Hexateuch (1848, no. 352) and Judges-Psalms (1855, no. 455), an interim edition until the complete Bible was published in 1868 (no. 716)." BIM notes bindings of full calf or of royal blue, "the latter with blind tooling", but not the colour of this particular copy.] ; 8vo.