Previous owner's signature "P W Matthew". Spine faded. Minor foxing. Small 4mm tear to cloth at head of rear joint. Overall a nice copy of this title. ; Part Two only of two parts. This volume on "Te Kauwae-raro or, 'Things Terrestrial.'" vi, [2 (errata on recto)], 279, [1], viii pages. Original red cloth boards with black lettering on spines and front boards. Page dimensions: 212 x 138mm. Text in Maori and English. "This latter division treats more especially of their history - properly so called - in which the various migrations of the ancestors of the particular tribes from whom the information was derived, are related in so far as the record has been handed down in the Whare-wananga, or Maori College. It is not to be expected that this record, which is very ancient, should be very full in its earlier parts. For we have to deal with transactions that took place - some of them - certainly some centuries before Christ, but how long ago it is almost impossible to say, and others in the early centuries of the Christian era." - from the Introduction, page v. This volume is Volume IV of the series "Memoirs of the Polynesian Society". The contents of this volume are reprinted from the 'Journal of the Polynesian Society", Vols. 22-24. This is the first separate edition in book form. [Bibliographical reference: S1062.] ; Memoirs of the Polynesian Society, Vol. IV.; 8vo