MARTIN (Lady).

Our Maoris.

First edition. Folding coloured map, frontispiece & 2 plates. 8vo. Publisher’s pictorial cloth, spine gilt. iv, 220, 4ads.pp. London, Society of Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884.

£125.00

With the bookplate of the distinguished collector James Edge Partington.

A very good copy. Lady Martin was the wife of New Zealand’s first Chief Justice. She spent thirty years in New Zealand (1842-77) and was well-place to make observations on the Maori adjusting to colonial rule. The text is a lightly edited version of her diaries.

Stock No.
177380