Te Ika a Maui;

or New Zealand and its inhabitants, illustrating the manners, customs, mythology, religion, rites, songs, proverbs, fables, and language of the natives.

“Together with the Geology, Natural History, Productions, and Climate of the Country.”

by Rev. Richard Taylor
(A Missionary in New Zealand for more than Thirty Years).

Second Edition.
With numerous Illustrations (engravings and vignettes). 8 b/w plates. Colour Frontis (New Zealand Fauna & Flora of Past & Present Times), clean.

Londan: William Macintosh and H. Ireson Jones, Wanganui, New Zealand. MDCCCLXX (1870)

Condition:
Poor, spine split with 1/2 missing, covers worn and faded, title page partially loose, 2 pages of ads at rear pages age-toned with light foxing throughout, notation on front free endpaper, all plates heavily foxed in borders.

pp. 730.
Size: 23cm x 14.5cm (approx.)

Price: US$245.00

(price includes shipping)