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[Strass, Friedrich (1766-1845)] Listings

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1 [Strass, Friedrich (1766-1845)] He Whakapapa Ara: Nga mahi me nga aha noa a te Atua raua ko tana Hahi
Auckland Printed by J. Williamson for the Church Mission 1847 First Edition Original Wraps Good with no dust jacket 
1" chip to lower corner of blue paper wrapper at spine. A 1 1/4" tear at head of paper spine. Some staining to front wrapper. Creasing to a couple of leaves. Pencil marginalia copied from Williams 155 on inside of front wrapper. The margins are narrow, but without any cropping of the text. ; Title has date of 1847, however the actual date of publication was 1848 (see BIM 365). 45, [3 (blank)] pages. Stitched into original blue paper wrappers. Page dimensions: 168 x 98mm. Some leaves unopened. Text in Maori throughout, the translation into Maori was made by Robert Maunsell. History from the Old Testament of the Bible, up to the Book of Solomon. This copy with the bookplate of the Churchill Auction. This was a charitable auction held in New Zealand in 1942 of rare books and pictures in aid of the New Zealand Patriotic Fund. The feature book of the auction was a book published in 1675, "Divi Britannici," written by a Winston Churchill of the 17th Century (father of the first Duke of Marlborough), and also signed by Winston Churchill the British PM of the 20th Century. [Bibliographical References: BIM (Books in Maori) 365 - Scripture history as far as Solomon". It is a summary of William Bell's translation [. . .] of [Friedrich] Strass's 'Der Strom der Zeiten'"; Williams 155 - "Some copies trimmed down to 165 mm."; For the Churchill Book Auction, see Lawlor "Books and Bookmen: New Zealand and Overseas" (1954) pages 113-119.] ; 16mo 
Price: 235.00 NZD
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