Oceania.- [Ward (John)] Information relative to New Zealand for the Use of Colonists, folding map (small tears at lower edge and gutter), book-label, damp-stain to upper fore-edge margin, later cloth, original covers bound in (upper with small portion torn away and supplied in paper), John W. Parker, 1839 § Lancelott (F.) Australia As It Is..., 2 vol., lithographed frontispieces, publisher's catalogues, vol.I hinges strengthened, labels removed from pastedowns, original cloth, extremities a little bumped and scuffed, [Ferguson, 11299], 1852, first editions, 8vo (3)

⁂ I. Information on New Zealand's climate, soil, natural history and produce, as well as a section on the native character and 'their capacity for civilization'. In 1840 the Treaty of Waitangi was signed between the British Crown and Maori chiefs.