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Pp. 32. Text in Ma?µri printed in roman type. Uncut and partly unopened copy in original grey paper covers. Some light staining to title page otherwise an excellent copy. Translation of the first seven chapters of the Book of Daniel and the whole of the book of Jonah. Another edition, previously published in the same year, only contains the first six chapters of the Book of Daniel and the Book of Jonah. (See Williams).The mission at Paihia (Bay of Islands) was established in 1826, which soon became very active. The printing press arrived at Paihia in December 1834 together with William Colenso, missionary and botanist who operated the successful press for many years. William Gilbert Puckey (1805-78) arrived in New Zealand with his parents at the age of fourteen, learned the Ma?µri language and became an useful translator. Puckey made this translation in 1836 and Colenso made the final changes in 1840. Williams, Bibliography of printed Ma?µri, 44.…

Untrimmed and partly unopened copy of an early Maori edition printed in New Zealand, containing the beginning of the Book of Daniel (1-7: Nebuchadnezzar's dream and Daniel's dream) and the whole of the Book of Jonah (1-4: Jonah and the whale), translated into Maori and printed and published by the missionary press in the town of Paihia on the northernmost island of New Zealand. A nearly identical edition, also published in 1840 does not include Daniel 7 (hence "e witu" [= seven] in the present title and "e ono" [= six] in the other). The mission had been established there in 1826 and the press produced its first work, selected epistles from the New Testament, in 1835.Minor waterstain in the lower right corner of the first two quires and a small hole in the lower margin of several leaves. A good copy, wholly untrimmed.l Hocken, Bibliography . New Zealand (1909), 34 note (p. 507); Williams, Bibliography of printed Maori (1924/1975), 44 (citing Bleek, p. 40 & Hocken, p. 507). Side stitched through 3 holes, in contemporary grey paper wrapper. Set in roman type with incidental italic. Pages: 32 pp.…

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