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• Auction House:
  Webb's
• Sale Name:
  The C.L. Thomas Collection
• Sale Date:
  21 Mar 2012 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  373
• Lot Description:
  Colenso, William - A Maori-English lexicon : being a comprehensive dictionary of the New Zealand tongue
  Including mythical, mythological, 'taboo' or sacred, genealogical, proverbial, poetical, tropological, sacerdotal, incantatory, natural-history, idiomatical, abbreviated, tribal, and other names and terms of and allusions to persons, things, acts, and places in ancient times ; also, showing their affinities with cognate Polynesian dialects and foreign languages ; with copious pure Maori examples. Part I - Maori-English. Specimen. Wellington : John Mackay, Government Printer, 1898. 8vo. ix, 111, 21p. C1195. Brown cloth. Mild wear and foxing. Author's compliments slip tipped to title page. Provenance: originally from the collection of Henry Hill. Includes 'Part II - English-Maori'. Specimen of Colenso's great lexicographical project, tragically unfinished at the time of his death. A handsome copy. G to G+.
• Provenance:
  Originally from the collection of Henry Hill.
• Estimate:
  NZ$500 - 500
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Books & Manuscripts

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