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  • THE ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAORI, Genuine and Empirical

    $49.95 NZD
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    1922. Dominion Museum Monograph No. 3. Focuses on traditional Māori astronomy (Tātai arorangi), including celestial navigation, starlore, timekeeping systems, and the cultural significance of star clusters like Matariki.

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  • MEDICAL PRACTICE IN OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND IN THE EARLY DAYS by R.V. Fulton

    $84.95 NZD
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    1922. Captures the challenging reality of New Zealand’s early colonial medical landscape.

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    MEDICAL PRACTICE IN OTAGO AND SOUTHLAND IN THE EARLY DAYS by R.V. Fulton
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  • RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY NEW ZEALAND by H.B. Morton

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    1925, 1st edition. Personal memoirs and historical accounts detailing early colonial life, shipping, and development in New Zealand during the 19th century.

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    RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY NEW ZEALAND by H.B. Morton
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  • THE ROAD TO EREWHON: A Social History of the Formative Years in New Zealand 1890-1976 by Tony Simpson

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    1976. Explores the cultural, social, and political evolution of New Zealand, treating the 1890–1976 window as the country's formative nineteenth century.

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    THE ROAD TO EREWHON: A Social History of the Formative Years in New Zealand 1890-1976 by Tony Simpson

  • GUM SEEKERS: Early Days by Steve Waterman

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    1990. New Zealand history booklet exploring the country's historic kauri gum-digging industry.

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    GUM SEEKERS: Early Days by Steve Waterman

  • BUSHMEN: Early Days by Steve Waterman

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    1990. New Zealand history booklet documenting the lives, tools, and environments of colonial timber workers.

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    BUSHMEN: Early Days by Steve Waterman

  • A HOME IN THE WILDERNESS: Pictures of Life in Old New Zealand by David Lowe

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    1980. Historical photographs and illustrations of early European pioneer dwellings and colonial structures in New Zealand's wilderness.

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    A HOME IN THE WILDERNESS: Pictures of Life in Old New Zealand by David Lowe

  • SOWING THE SEED IN PIONEER NEW ZEALAND by Gabriel Elliott

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    1960. Explores early religious history in Aotearoa New Zealand, focusing heavily on Methodist beginnings.

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    SOWING THE SEED IN PIONEER NEW ZEALAND by Gabriel Elliott

  • EXPLORERS AND TRAVELLERS: Early Expeditions in New Zealand by John Pascoe

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    1971. A historical chronicle offers an intensely detailed account of the early European settlement, mapping, and charting of the New Zealand wilderness.

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    EXPLORERS AND TRAVELLERS: Early Expeditions in New Zealand by John Pascoe

  • THE MAORI DIVISION OF TIME by Elsdon Best

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    1922. Dominion Museum Monograph No. 4. Provides a detailed scholarly exploration of traditional Māori ethnoastronomy, lunar calendars, seasonal cycles, and how time-marking phenomena were personified in Māori culture.

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    THE MAORI DIVISION OF TIME by Elsdon Best

  • MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF MAORILAND by A.W. Reed

    ISBN: 0589002325
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    1946. A classic collection compiles twenty-eight traditional Māori histories and mythological stories.

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    MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF MAORILAND by A.W. Reed

  • TRAFFORDS OF THE GISBORNE AND WAIROA DISTRICTS by Vivienne May McConnell

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    1986, 1st edition. A local regional and genealogical history book providing a comprehensive chronicle of the Trafford family. SIGNED

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    TRAFFORDS OF THE GISBORNE AND WAIROA DISTRICTS by Vivienne May McConnell

  • THE SHAPING OF NEW ZEALAND by M.H. Holcroft

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    1974, 1st edition. Explores the physical, historical, and cultural development of New Zealand from the arrival of the first Europeans through to the end of the 19th century.

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    THE SHAPING OF NEW ZEALAND by M.H. Holcroft

  • A LETTER FROM JAMES by Mona Anderson

    ISBN: 0589007092
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    1972. The story of the author's grandparents James and Suzanna Tarling, who came from Wales in the ship Westland in 1880, to a life of challenges in colonial Canterbury.

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    A LETTER FROM JAMES by Mona Anderson

  • POENAMO by John Logan Campbell

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    1973. First published 1881 - romance and reality of antipodean life in the infancy of a new colony.

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    POENAMO by John Logan Campbell

  • MANGATOI REVISITED 1991

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    1991. Compiles the raw memories, family trees, and personal accounts of the pioneer farming families who broke in the remote, rugged Mangatoi and Oropi bush settlements near Te Puke in the Western Bay of Plenty.

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    MANGATOI REVISITED 1991

  • VALLEY OF LITTLE TOWNS: The 120 Years of Marsden Valley's History 1866-1986

    ISBN: 0908629249
    $79.95 NZD
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    1986, 1st edition. A notable regional history book that documents 120 years of local history in the Marsden Valley from 1866 to 1986, located in the Grey County of Central Westland, New Zealand.

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    VALLEY OF LITTLE TOWNS: The 120 Years of Marsden Valley's History 1866-1986

  • THE STORY OF NEW ZEALAND by A.H. Reed

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    1965. A romanticised, highly accessible overview of New Zealand's evolution from its geological formation through early Māori migration and European colonisation.

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    THE STORY OF NEW ZEALAND by A.H. Reed

  • CHECK TO YOUR KING by Robin Hyde

    ISBN: 0855584483
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    1975. Based on the early settler Baron de Thierry, self-styled King Pokeno of Hokianga.

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    CHECK TO YOUR KING by Robin Hyde

  • WOMEN OF NORTHERN WAIROA by Jane Wordsworth

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    1985. A record of the lives of 41 women in the area of Northern Wairoa in those early days of New Zealand settlement.

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    WOMEN OF NORTHERN WAIROA by Jane Wordsworth

  • LOOKING BACK: Or Personal Reminiscences by The Widow of a Pioneer Settler

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    1914. The second edition of the personal reminiscences of E. Hewett, the widow of a New Zealand Pioneer Settler.

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  • NEW ZEALAND MEMORIES by Brenda Guthrie

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    1930, 1st edition. A detailed narrative of early European colonial settlement in New Zealand, focusing heavily on British settlers who arrived around 1840.

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    NEW ZEALAND MEMORIES by Brenda Guthrie

  • WAITOMO: Ruakuri and Aranui, New Zealand 1910

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    1910. Exceptionally rare vintage string bound photographic souvenir booklet.

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    WAITOMO: Ruakuri and Aranui, New Zealand 1910

  • ROTORUA: The Wonderland of New Zealand - 56 choice photographs 1920

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    1920. Exceptionally rare vintage photographic souvenir booklet.

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    ROTORUA: The Wonderland of New Zealand - 56 choice photographs 1920
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