First New Zealand Christmases

Maker / Kaihanga
Alfred Reed (b.1875, d.1975)
Alexander Reed (b.1908, d.1979)
Production date / Rā mahi
1933
Description / Taipitopito kōrero
24 page book titled "First New Zealand Christmases". The cover also reads "Tasman, Cook, Marsden" and includes an image with the caption "Mānuka Leptospermum Scoparium". This book is a record of "the romantic story of Samuel Marsden landing at the semi-tropical Bay of Islands on that Christmas Day of 1814, and preaching the first sermon on New Zealand soil". Includes a facsimile of a page that Marsden would have used as part of a sermon
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Production date / Rā mahi
1933
System Id / Tautuhitanga Pūnaha
43355
Department / Wāhanga
Object type / Te momo taonga
Other Id / Tautuhitanga kē
PZ9
Maker and role / Kaihanga me tōna tūranga
Alfred Reed (b.1875, d.1975): Author
Alexander Reed (b.1908, d.1979): Author
Production details
A.H. & A.W. Reed, Publisher, Dunedin/Otago/New Zealand
Content Titles / Ngā Taitara Take
First New Zealand Christmases; Tasman; Attack on Tasman’s Ships; Captain Cook Discovers the Bay of Islands; Rangihoua, the Site of Marsden’s First Mission Station; The Bay of Islands, N.Z. in Marsden’s Day; The Waitangi “Treaty House” (Mr. James Busby’s Residence); View in New Zealand, as Seen by Captain Cook’s Artist; Map of New Zealand; Marsden; Facsimile Page of Manuscript Sermon in the Autograph of Samuel Marsden; The Marsden Cross

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