Te Ika a Maui, or, New Zealand and its Inhabitants; Illustrating the Origin, Manners, Customs, Mythology, Religion, Rites, Songs, Proverbs, Fables, and Language of the Natives
Author:
TAYLOR, Rev RICHARD
Title:
Te Ika a Maui, or, New Zealand and its Inhabitants; Illustrating the Origin, Manners, Customs, Mythology, Religion, Rites, Songs, Proverbs, Fables, and Language of the Natives
Publisher:
Wertheim and Macintosh, 24, Paternoster-Row 1855
Description:
SCARCE FIRST EDITION, this is the book that inspired Elsdon Best to become an Ethnologist. Super octavo, rebacked with leather & raised bands (& gilt lettering & decoration) utilizing the original green buckram boards, frontispiece, 490pp + 6pp to rear, illus, VG (light to moderate rubbing/scuffing & bruising to board extrems, moderate rubbing to boards, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light soiling & moderate scuffing to eps, light to moderate cracking to front & rear gutters, light foxing & staining to prelims & terminals, sm adhesive barcode label to rear pastedown, some page edges may remain uncut)
Keywords:
first editions New Zealand Maori heritage history culture antiquarian books historical Maui customs Rev Richard Taylor anthropology ethnology
