“Ko te Kawenata Hou o to tatou Ariki te Kai Wakaora a ihu Karaiti” - First edition of the Māori New Testament - Published in Paihia, New Zealand, 1837 maps -Printed at the Imprimerie Royale

-Printed at the Imprimerie Royale [Royal Press] in the Ile de France - Port-Louis

– Approximately 200 pages of manuscript in a neat mid-18th-century hand

After its completion

foxing and stains

Writing here from New Zealand as a Samoan

“Ko te Kawenata Hou o to tatou Ariki te Kai Wakaora a ihu Karaiti” - First edition of the Māori New Testament - Published in Paihia, New Zealand, 1837 maps -Printed at the Imprimerie RoyaleKo te Kawenata Hou o to tatou Ariki te Kai Wakaora a ihu Karaiti First edition of the Mori New Testament Published in Paihia, New Zealand, 1837 This copy is complete with 356 pages of text including the printed title page. The book is bound in its contemporary full leather binding with wear and some splitting to the spine. Internally very good. This is the first Complete edition of the New Testament published in Mori, which came off William Colensos