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AUBERT, SUZANNE - CATHOLIC PRAYER BOOK - Ko te ako me te karakia o te Hahi Katorika Romano.
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AUBERT, SUZANNE - CATHOLIC PRAYER BOOK
Ko te ako me te karakia o te Hahi Katorika Romano.
Napier 1879. Dinwiddie Walker and Co, Printers, Herald Office, Tennyson Street Napier. 472p, iv p, colophon Iv p. A new Catholic prayer book partly a revision of the 1847 work, with updated vocabulary and new material, prepared by Suzanne Aubert between 1877 and 1879.
180mm, in the original binding of half maroon leather with marbled boards, the binding is worn but holding and the book complete, with several blank pages at end. Owner’s signature dated 1947 on front endpaper.
Mary Aubert came to New Zealand from France in 1860 with Bishop Pompallier and other Missionaries, after he died in 1871, Aubert left Auckland and worked with Māori in Meeanee, Hawkes Bay and Hiruhama (Jerusalem) on the Whanganui River. She became fluent in Te Reo, and in 1879 Aubert published this Māori-language prayer book and catechism. The catholic mission could not afford to give copies away, but the cost of the prayer book [six shillings and sixpence] was too expensive and in 1880 a cheaper edition of selections was produced.
Ko te ako me te karakia o te Hahi Katorika Romano.
Napier 1879. Dinwiddie Walker and Co, Printers, Herald Office, Tennyson Street Napier. 472p, iv p, colophon Iv p. A new Catholic prayer book partly a revision of the 1847 work, with updated vocabulary and new material, prepared by Suzanne Aubert between 1877 and 1879.
180mm, in the original binding of half maroon leather with marbled boards, the binding is worn but holding and the book complete, with several blank pages at end. Owner’s signature dated 1947 on front endpaper.
Mary Aubert came to New Zealand from France in 1860 with Bishop Pompallier and other Missionaries, after he died in 1871, Aubert left Auckland and worked with Māori in Meeanee, Hawkes Bay and Hiruhama (Jerusalem) on the Whanganui River. She became fluent in Te Reo, and in 1879 Aubert published this Māori-language prayer book and catechism. The catholic mission could not afford to give copies away, but the cost of the prayer book [six shillings and sixpence] was too expensive and in 1880 a cheaper edition of selections was produced.
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