INTRODUCTION Seventeen years ago the late Dr. T. M. Hocken remarked that the literature relating to New Zealand was not only unusually interesting but unusually extensive. At that time the Dominion Government published Dr. Hocken's monumental work, A Bibliography of the Literature Relating to New Zealand—a book which has been of very great service to students of history and to collectors of books about New Zealand. That bibliography was produced only after long and careful research, but its compiler noted the probability that many items would have escaped enumeration, although he thought that any omissions would be of little moment, and would prove to be chiefly volumes of verse. It was inevitable, however, that where such an extensive literature had to be surveyed there would be omissions of greater moment than Dr. Hocken thought probable. In the years since his work was published, interest in the literature relating to New Zealand has increased considerably, the number of collectors has become very much larger, and the demand for the earlier books dealing with the country, or containing notable references to it, has brought about the discovery of many items that were not known to Dr. Hocken or to previous bibliographers. As it is desirable that omissions from the bibliographies of New Zealand should be noted, publication of the present volume has been decided upon. It is not a bibliography, but simply a record of books and pamphlets which, although they are not mentioned in Dr. Hocken's work, are known to exist. However, where such information is available to the compiler, he has noted the publisher of each book, and the number of pages. The list contains the titles of over 500 books and pamphlets published before 1909 but not noted by Dr. Hocken. Many of them are rare pamphlets. The compiler wishes to thank all those who so freely placed at his disposal information relating to many of the books listed. He is specially grateful to Sir Joseph Kinsey (Christchurch), Mr. J. M. A. Ilott (Wellington), and Mr. A. D. Smith (Christchurch). Information about items not noted in this volume or in the Hocken Bibliography would be gratefully received by the publishers, for incorporation in future editions. For the information of collectors of later works about New Zealand, a list of the principal publications of the kind since 1909 has been added. Mr. Johannes C. Andersen, librarian of the Turnbull Library, Wellington, kindly read the manuscript of this, and suggested some additions to it. The publishers hope that, until some student with greater leisure and greater opportunities for research, undertakes the revision and enlargement of Hocken's Bibliography, the lists which follow will be of some assistance to collectors and others interested in New Zealand literature. Libr. Halework 4.30-43 47542 SUPPLEMENT TO THE New Zealand Bibliography 1694 Narborough, Tasman and others. An account of several late Voyages and discoveries to the South and North, towards the Straits of Magellan, the South Seas and the vast Tracts of Lands beyond Hollandia, Nova, etc. Includes Tasman's Discovery of Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand. 1778 New Discoveries concerning the World and its Inhabitants, with charts and plates. Summaries of Voyages to New Zealand and South Seas. 1802 Stuart Martinus, De Mensch. Zoo Als Hij Voorkompt op Den Bekenden Aardbol Beschreeven Door Martinum Stuart Afgebeeld Door Jaques Keyper; 6 vols. Vol. 2, pages 111-159, deal with New Zealand. Beautiful coloured plates. 1811 Mitford, Miss Christina. The Maid of the South-a poem. (Copious notes re New Zealand, Cook, etc.) 1818 McKonochie, Capt. Summary View of the Statistics and existing Commerce of the Principal Shores of the Pacific Ocean. 1824 Shoberl, Fred. The South Sea Islands. engravings. (The World in Miniature.) Illustrated with 26 coloured 1831 Bennet. Mode of Preparing Human Heads among the New Zealanders. 1836 Missionary Magazine and Chronicle, Vol. 1. June. Rienze, G. L. Domény de. Océanie ou Cinquième partie du Monde (L'Univers). Histories et Description de tous les peuples. Map and numerous engravings. 3 vols. (2nd Edition in 1837.) Venezia. Report from the Select Committee to consider Measures to be adopted with respect to the Native Inhabitants of the British Settlements and neighbouring Tribes; pp. 847. 1837 Bourke, Sir Richard. Despatch Relative to the Affairs of New Zealand, dated Sydney, 9th September. Includes four letters from James Busby, British Resident. Report of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes, British Possessions, reprinted with comments by the Aborigines Society. pp. 140. 1838 Bannister, S. British Colonization and Coloured Tribes. pp. 321. Bourke, Sir Richard, Governor of N.S.W.-Despatch to Lord Glenelg on the Affairs of New Zealand. 1839 Colonization of New Zealand (from the Monthly Chronicle, 1839). pp. 16. Scott, T. Description of South Australia, with Sketches of N.S.W., New Zealand, Port Lincoln, Port Phillip, etc. Map. Glasgow. South Australian Miscellany and New Zealand Review, 6 parts. 1840 Aborigines Protection Society, Third Report, with Accounts of Tasmanians by G. A. Robinson and of the New Zealanders by E. J. Wakefield. Missions of the Church Missionary Society at Kishraghur and New Zealand. New Zealand, 1840. Information Relative to-by E. G. Wakefield, etc. pp. 207. New Zealand Question. pp. 77 Twenty-five Years' Experience in Australia, being the evidence of respectable and disinterested residents and travellers in those Colonies, as to their present state and future prospects, the whole demonstrating the extraordinary advantages of emigration to New South Wales alike to men of capital and the labouring classes; also facts and observations shewing the present circumstances and prospects of New Zealand. pp. 116. London: Smith Elder and Co. 1841 Church Missionary Gleaner. 9 vols., 1841-1849. London: Sold at the Missionary House, Salisbury Sq., by L. and G. Seeley, Hatchard and Son, and J. Nisbet and Co. New Series, vol. 1-9, 1850-1859. London: Seeley, Jackson and Halliday. |