NEW TESTAMENT, in Maori - Ko te Kawenata Hou o to Tatou Ariki o te Kai Whakaora o ihu Karaiti, London, 1852, 8vo, contemporary calf. Provenance: "Thomas Kerr, 'Pandora', Auckland, NZd., July 1853" (inscription on front free endpaper).

NEW TESTAMENT, in Maori - Ko te Kawenata Hou o to Tatou Ariki o te Kai Whakaora o ihu Karaiti. He mea Whakamaori i te Reo Kariki. Ranana [i.e. London]: "He mea Ta i te Perehi o T. R. Harihona Raua ko Tana Tama, ma te Huihuinga ta Paipera mo Ingarani mo te ao Katoa" [Published by T. R. Harrison and Son, for the International Bible Society of England], 1852. 8vo (213 x 140mm). Printed in double column (some very light mainly marginal spotting and browning). Contemporary calf by Watkins decorated in blind (some patches of wear to covers, spine torn and frayed with some loss at head and foot). Provenance: "Thomas Kerr, 'Pandora', Auckland, NZd., July 1853" (inscription on front free endpaper); with a contemporary manuscript index [probably in Thomas Kerr's hand] of "The Miracles of Christ" in Maori and English on the front 3 preliminary leaves. The fifth edition of the New Testament in Maori, the first being printed in 1837. H.M.S. Pandora, mentioned in the inscription, was a 3-gun brig of the Royal Navy in service between 1833 and 1862. She spent 4 years between 1851 and 1855 surveying the coast of New Zealand. Thomas Kerr (d.1875), who was born in Ireland, was for some time her Master, as is made clear in a document by him printed in Auckland by Williamson & Wilson in 1852 titled "Port of Auckland, New Zealand. Sailing Directions, Compiled by Thomas Kerr, Esq., Master of Her Majesty's Surveying Vessel Pandora." Kerr lived for a while in New Zealand, during which time he apparently took Holy Orders, before returning to Ireland. A record in the National Library of Ireland, referring to him as "Rev. Thomas Kerr [formerly a lieutenant in the Royal Navy]", states that he was the first Director of the Valentia Observatory, Valentia Island, Co Kerry, in 1868 until his death in 1875, whereupon he was buried in the Church of Ireland cemetery there. Bagnall New Zealand National Bibliography 456; Williams A Bibliography of Printed Maori 233.