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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. First editions. Bound in 20th century blue cloth boards. Binder's ticket on rear endpaper, Pelorus Press, Auckland. Previous owner's ex-libris bookplate, Frank G. Glen. Some foxing. Berry, "New Zealand as a Field for Emigration" has tissue paper repair to lower corner of front wrapper, and lacks the folding map. Original wrappers bound in for four titles. Fading to wrappers. The pamphlet without wrappers (Buddle, "Aborigines of New Zealand" 1851) was not issued with wrappers (see Bagnall 739: "Cover-title"). "Aborigines of New Zealand" with dampstain to title leaf. The John White pamphlets "Maori Superstitions" 1856 as an inscription by the author, but without the author's signature. The inscription is hard to red: "[?] With kind regards from [?] [?] of the author". ; Bound volume of 5 pamphlets, all first editions. Berry pamphlet lacking the map. 20th century blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Spine titled " VOL. 5". With typewritten contents leaf bound in. The 5 pamphlets are: 1) [Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society] "New Zealand. Correspondence between the Wesleyan Missionary Committee and the Right Honourable Earl Grey, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, on the Apprehended Infringement of the Treaty of Waitangi". London: [1848]. 36 pages. Printed green wrappers. Page dimensions: 211 x 130mm. Cover title: "New Zealand. Treaty of Waitangi." [Reference: Bagnall 5983 - "a lengthy restatement of the views of Hobson, the British Government and the missionaries.] 2) John White "Maori Superstitions: A Lecture". Auckland: Printed by Williamson and Wilson, 1856. 33, [1 (blank)] pages. Printed pink paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 214mm x 134mm. Selected Contents: World, origin of; Kumara, Origin of; Cannibalism, Origin of; World drowned; New Zealand fished up; Mamari, Canoe of Ngapuhi; Arawa; Canoe of East Cape District; Tainui, Canoe Of Whaingaroa; People In New Zealand Before The Maori Race; Names and Attributes Of Dogs; Two Men And A Woman Taken To Heaven Alive; Origin Of The Moon; Incantation To Make Children's Teeth Come; Tattooing, Ceremonies of, for Man; Ditto, ditto, for Woman. [Reference: Bagnall 6031]. 3) Rev. J. Berry "New Zealand as a Field for Emigration" London: James Clarke & Co., 1879. 41 pages including the printed inside of the rear green cover. Lacking the map. Blue printed paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 182 x 121mm. [Reference: Bagnall 420]. 4) Rev. Thomas Buddle " The Aborigines of New Zealand: Two Lectures". Auckland: Williamson and Wilson, 1851. 51, [1 (blank)] pages. Cover-title. Page dimensions: 213 x 131mm. [Reference: Bagnall 739: "An outline of Maori life and custom."] 5) Rev. Thomas Buddle "The Maori King Movement in New Zealand, with a Full Report of the Native Meetings held at Waikato, April and May, 1860." Aucklnad: Published at the "New-Zealander" Office, 1860. 72, [2 (blank)] pages. Printed pale yellow paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 214 x 134mm. Rare. [Reference: Bagnall 740 - "The origins of the King movement so far as it was understood at the time, by a noted Wesleyan missionary. Buddle saw the implications of settle anxiety for land as well as of Maori political organisation but circumstances made his temperate proposals impracticable."].