A diverse range of texts are included in this collection; however, all share in common an association with New Zealand.
From works published more than a century ago, to those published within the last few years, it aims to make some of New Zealand's most important texts easily available to all. The collection includes significant works from Katherine Mansfield, Samuel Butler, Elsdon Best, Charles Darwin and Lady Mary Anne Barker, among many others.
Read works on:
- Culture and Social History
- Biography
- Contemporary Māori
- Historical Māori
- Language
- Literature
- Literary Criticism and History
- New Zealand History
- Science and Natural History
- The 'Sure to Rise' Cookery Book
- Was It All Cricket?
- War Economy Recipe Book
- New Zealand Studies: A Guide to Bibliographic Resources
- Cheerful Yesterdays
- Kaipara, or, Experiences of a settler in north New Zealand
- Past and Present, and Men of the Times.
- My Life
- We Will Not Cease
- The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771 [Volume One]
- The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771 [Volume Two]
- The Life of Captain James Cook
- Captain Cook and Captain Bligh
- Cook the Man
- On the Character of Captain James Cook
- The Death Of Captain Cook
- Eighteenth Century Science and the Voyages of Discovery
- The Wandering Scholars
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
- Some Problems of Cook's Biographer
- Cook the Navigator
- Some Problems of Editing Cook's Journals
- Cook the Writer
- The Diary of James Brogden, August 1871 – December 1872
- The Great Journey: an expedition to explore the interior of the Middle Island, New Zealand, 1846-8
- Sir Donald Maclean
- Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori
- Gallipoli Diary
- Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.
- The Life and Times of Patuone
- Life and Work of Samuel Marsden
- The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon
- The Trials of Eric Mareo
- Private J. D. Caves: The Long Journey Home
- In Peace & War: A Civilian Soldier's Story
- Life in Feejee, or, Five Years among the Cannibals
- Infantry Brigadier
- The Autobiography of a Maori
- The Story of a Maori Chief
- Nursing in New Zealand: History and Reminiscences
- Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by A Pakeha Maori
- Geoffrey Alley, Librarian: His Life & Work
- Crusoes of Sunday Island
- Henry Lawson Among Maoris
- Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
- Yesterdays in Maoriland
- The Adventures of a Surveyor in New Zealand and the Australian Gold Diggings
- The Early Journals of Henry Williams
- The Right Honourable Sir Francis H. D. Bell, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C.,: His Life and Times
- Some Chapters in the Life and Times of Te Rauparaha
- Pioneering the Pumice
- My First Eighty Years
- Through Ninety Years
- The Castaways of Disappointment Island
- Islands of Despair
- Wrecked on a Reef
- Octavius Hadfield
- In a Strange Garden: The Life and Times of Truby King
- Sir George Grey Pioneer of Empire in Southern Lands
- The Life and Times of Sir George Grey, K.C.B.
- William Rolleston : a New Zealand statesman
- Life and Times of D. M. Stuart, D.D.
- Journal of Katherine Mansfield
- The Piraki Log (e Pirangi Ahau Koe), or, Diary of Captain Hempleman
- Medicine Amongst the Maoris, in Ancient and Modern Times
- Vikings of the Sunrise
- State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa 1900-1950
- Maori and the State: Crown-Māori relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa, 1950-2000
- Takitimu
- Nga kōrero a Reweti Kohere Mā
- The Coming of the Maori
- The Treaty of Waitangi, an explanation; Te Tiriti o Waitangi, he whakamarama.
- Return to the Islands
- Te whakatuwheratanga o Te Tumu Herenga Waka : 6 Tihema 1986, Poneke, Te Whare Wananga o Wikitoria
- Plume of the Arawas
- The Maori - Volume I
- The Maori - Volume II
- The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical
- The Maori As He Was : A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
- Polynesian Voyagers. The Maori as a Deep-sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer
- The Maori Division of Time
- The Moa-Hunters of New Zealand: Sportsman of the Stone Age
- Maori and Polynesian: their origin, history and culture
- Notes on the Ancient Dog of the New Zealanders
- The Maoris in the Great War
- The Maori: Yesterday and To-day
- Reflections: Sketches on the Wanganui River
- Polynesian Researches
- The Maori King
- Ko Nga Moteatea, Me Nga Hakirara O Nga Maori
- Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race
- The Old-Time Maori
- Murihiku: A History of the South Island of New Zealand and the Islands Adjacent and Lying to the South, from 1642 to 1835
- Legends of the Maori
- Legends of the Maori
- The Maoris of the South Island
- Aureretanga: Groans of the Maoris
- Maori Religion and Mythology
- The Maori Situation
- Te Ika a Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants
- Sketches of Early Colonisation in New Zealand and its Phases of Contact with the Maori Race
- The Maori Race
- A year among the Maoris: study of their arts and customs
- History and traditions of the Maoris of the West Coast, North Island of New Zealand, prior to 1840
- New Zealand Revisited
- A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand.
- Grammar of the New Zealand Language
- A Leaf from the Natural History of New Zealand
- First Lessons in Maori
- A Dictionary of the Maori Language
- Maori Pronunciation and the Evolution of Written Maori
- Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny
- Follow the Call
- Station Amusements
- Station Life in New Zealand
- From a Garden in the Antipodes
- Day and Night
- Time and Place
- Indirections: A Memoir 1909-1947
- Musings in Maoriland
- Erewhon
- A First Year in Canterbury Settlement With Other Early Essays
- New Zealand Bird Songs
- Collected Poems
- Check to Your King
- The Godwits Fly
- Journalese
- Promenade
- The Aloe
- The Garden Party and Other Stories
- In A German Pension
- Something Childish and Other Stories
- The Story of a New Zealand River
- Man Alone
- The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I
- The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume II
- Coal Flat
- The Passionate Puritan
- Pageant
- The World is Yours
- Bliss and Other Stories
- The Doves' Nest and Other Stories
- Kowhai Gold
- Six Little New Zealanders
- Uncles Three
- Rifle and Tomahawk
- The Woman Problem & other prose
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- Island Stories
- The Life of Katherine Mansfield
- Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows
- Recollecting Mansfield
- Introduction to In A German Pension
- Introduction to The Maori As He Was
- Introduction to Old New Zealand
- Introduction to Polynesian Researches
- A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand
- Novels and Novelists
- Poems by Katherine Mansfield
- The New Zealand Novel 1860-1965
- Fretful Sleepers and Other Essays
- A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand 1930-1950
- A Bibliography of Printed Maori to 1900
- The Early Canterbury Runs: Containing the First, Second and Third (new) Series
- The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
- New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
- Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
- Earliest New Zealand
- Picturesque Dunedin: or Dunedin and its neighbourhood in 1890
- The First Ascent of Mount Ruapehu
- White Wings Vol I. Fifty Years Of Sail In The New Zealand Trade, 1850 TO 1900
- White Wings Vol II. Founding Of The Provinces And Old-Time Shipping. Passenger Ships From 1840 To 1885
- La Nouvelle-Zélande
- Hero Stories of New Zealand
- Fulbright in New Zealand
- An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. [Vol. II]
- Pioneering Reminiscences of Old Wairoa
- The Jubilee History of Nelson: From 1842 to 1892.
- Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
- Historical Records of New Zealand
- The Old Whaling Days
- From Tasman To Marsden.
- Illustrated Guide to Christchurch and Neighbourhood
- Temperance and Prohibition in New Zealand
- Maori and Missionary: Early Christian Missions in the South Island of New Zealand
- New Zealand's First Refugees: Pahiatua's Polish Children
- The Long White Cloud
- History of New Zealand
- History of New Zealand. Vol. II.
- History of New Zealand. Vol. III.
- The Southern Districts of New Zealand
- Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century:
- The Past and Present Of New Zealand With Its Prospects for the Future
- Some Interesting Occurrences in Early Auckland: City and Provinces
- The New Zealanders at Gallipoli
- Early Wellington
- The conquest of Mount Cook and other climbs : an account of four seasons’ mountaineering on the Southern Alps of New Zealand
- Important Judgments: Delivered in the Compensation Court and Native Land Court. 1866–1879.
- A great coloniser : the Rev. Dr. Thomas Burns, pioneer minister of Otago and nephew of the poet
- With the Lost Legion in New Zealand
- Lore and history of the South Island Maori
- The Wahine Disaster
- Castaway on the Auckland Isles
- The Wreck of the Hydrabad
- The History of the Jews in New Zealand
- Notes on Sir William Martin's Pamphlet Entitled the Taranaki Question
- A Dark Chapter from New Zealand History
- Voices from Auckland, New Zealand.
- The Founders of Canterbury
- The French at Akaroa
- Old Manawatu, or The Wild Days of the West
- Historical Records of New Zealand South
- Recollections of Travel in New Zealand and Australia
- Nation Making, a story of New Zealand
- A selection from the writings and speeches of John Robert Godley
- Letters from Early New Zealand
- Letters from New Zealand 1857-1911
- Annandale Past and Present 1839-1900
- No Easy Victory: Towards Equal Pay for Women in the Government Service 1890-1960
- Contributions to the Early History of New Zealand
- Edward Gibbon Wakefield : the colonization of South Australia and New Zealand
- The New Zealand Constitution Act [1852]: together with correspondence between the Secretary of State for the colonies and the Governor-in-Chief of New Zealand in explanation thereof
- The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: a catalogue with indexes
- Tales of Banks Peninsula
- The Whaling Journal of Captain W. B. Rhodes: Barque Australian of Sydney 1836 - 1838
- The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand. A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel through Maoriland.
- New Zealand 1826-1827: From the French of Dumont D'Urville
- The Journal of Edward Ward 1850-51
- Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition: During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Volume One.
- The New Zealand Reader
- The New Zealand journal, 1842-1844 of John B. Williams of Salem, Massachussetts
- Life in Early Poverty Bay
- Historical Records of New Zealand Vol. II.
- Life of Sir George Grey: Governor, High commissioner, and Premier. An Historical Biography.
- Pioneering in Poverty Bay (N.Z.)
- Demonstration House
- Plantarum Novarum Ex Herbario Sprengelii Centuriam, Speciminis Loco Inauguralis, ut Doctoris Medici Gradum adipisgatur, ad diem 30 Maii 1807 exhibet Ioann. Frider. Theod. Biehler, Berolinas.
- A History of the Birds of New Zealand.
- The Study of Mathematics
- The Cultivation of New Zealand Plants
- The Vegetation of New Zealand
- Forest Vines to Snow Tussocks: The Story of New Zealand Plants
- Bird Life on Island and Shore
- Tutira
- Birds of the Water Wood & Waste
- Botanical Discovery in New Zealand: The Resident Botanists
- Botanical Discovery in New Zealand: The Visiting Botanists
- Mathematics at Victoria in Retrospect
- Manual of the New Zealand Flora.
- Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations
- New Zealand Plants and their Story
- The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
- Exotic Intruders
- Early New Zealand Botanical Art
- Ngā Tohuwhenua Mai Te Rangi: A New Zealand Archeology in Aerial Photographs
- Report on the Geology & Gold Fields of Otago