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• Facsimiles of the Declaration of independence and the Treaty of Waitangi. (By authority : G. Didsbury, Government Printer, 1877), by New Zealand, H. Hanson Turton, New Zealand. Governor (1840-1843 : Hobson), New Zealand. 1840, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical records of New Zealand. (A. R. Shearer, Govt. printer, 1973), by Robert McNab (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical records of New Zealand. vol. 1-2. (Wellington, 1908), by Robert McNab (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical records of New Zealand. (J. Mackay, 1908), by Robert McNab (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historical records of New Zealand (Wellington, J. Mackay, gov't. printer, 1908), by Robert McNab (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The authentic and genuine history of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand, February 5 and 6, 1840: being a faithful and circunstantial, though brief, narration of events which happened on that memorable occasion; with copies of the treaty in English and Maori, and of the three early proclamations respecting the founding of the colony. (G. Didsbury, Government Printer, 1890), by W. Colenso, New Zealand. Governor (1840-1843 : Hobson), New Zealand 1840, and Great Britain 1837-1901 (Victoria) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manuscripts in the British Isles relating to Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. (Australian National University Press, 1972), by Phyllis Mander-Jones, Australian National University, and National Library of Australia (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Zealand : Further papers relative to the affairs of New Zealand. (In continuation of Paper presented 31st July 1849). (H.M.S.O., 1850), by New Zealand. Colonial Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• The New Zealand native rebellion : letter to Lord Lyttelton (Hocken Library, 1974), by Henry Sewell and George William Lyttelton Lyttelton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The New Zealand journal, 1842-1844, of John B. Williams of Salem, Massachusetts (Peabody Museum of Salem, 1956), by John Brown Williams (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Why Reject the Treaty? A Maori-Pakeha Viewpoint (2008), by Emily Bailey (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)
• A national history of Australia, New Zealand & the adjacent islands form their discovery to the centennial era and from the period to the present day (G. Routledge and son, ltd.;, 1917), by Robert P. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Zealand in evolution; industrial, economic and political (T. F. Unwin ltd., 1916), by Guy Hardy Scholefield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Zealand's first war (W. A. G. Skinner, government printer, 1926), by Thomas Lindsay Buick and New Zealand. Board of Māori Ethnological Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of New Zealand (I.M. Isitt, 1925), by J. B. Condliffe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The progress of New Zealand in the century (The Linscott publishing company;, 1902), by R. F. Irvine and O. T. J. Alpers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The colonisation of New Zealand (Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1927), by J. S. Marais (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of New Zealand; a history of New Zealand from the earliest times to the present, with special reference to the political, industrial and social development of the island common-wealth; including the industrial evolution dating from 1870, the political revolution of 1890, the causes and consequences, and the general movement of events throughout the four periods of New Zealand history. (C. F. Taylor, 1904), by Frank Parsons and Charles Fremont Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Zealand. (H. Marshall & Son, 1898), by William Pember Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of New Zealand. (Melville, Mullen & Slade, 1895), by George William Rusden (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Zealand, Pacific pioneer (The Macmillan company, 1946), by Philip Leonard Soljak (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Zealand, an outline history (University press, 1920), by John Rawson Elder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• England and New Zealand from Tasman to the Taranaki war (Methuen & co., ltd., 1926), by Angus John Harrop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early history of New Zealand, from earliest times to 1840 (H. Brett, 1890), by Richard Arundell Augur Sherrin, Thomson W. Leys, and J. H. Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Zealand rulers and statesmen from 1840 to 1897 (S. Low, Marston, 1897), by William Gisborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The colony of New Zealand; its history, vicissitudes and progress (E.A. Petherick & Co., 1891), by William Gisborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Australasian colonies : (from their foundation in the year 1911) / by Edward Jenks (The University Press, 1912), by Edward Jenks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Australia and New Zealand from 1606 to 1890 (Longmans, Green and co.; [etc., etc.], 1894), by Alexander Sutherland and George Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old whaling days; a history of southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840. (Whitcombe and Tombs limited, 1913), by Robert McNab (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christianity among the New Zealanders (Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1867), by William Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of New Zealand: past and present--savage and civilized. (J. Murray, 1859), by Arthur S. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative of the late war in New Zealand. (Richard Bentley, 1863), by Robert Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Zealand (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874), by Alexander Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forty years in New Zealand: (Hodder and Stoughton, 1878), by James Buller (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political (T. F. Unwin, 1909), by G. H. Scholefield and William Pember Reeves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Zealand's first war, or, The rebellion of Hone Heke. (W. A. G. Skinner, government printer, 1926), by Thomas Lindsay Buick and New Zealand. Board of Māori Ethnological Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• With the lost legion in New Zealand (T. Werner Laurie, 1911), by G. Hamilton-Browne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of New Zealand. (Chapman and Hall, 1883), by George William Rusden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contributions to the early history of New Zealand <Settlement of Otago> (S. Low, Marston and co., limited, 1898), by Thomas Moreland Hocken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir George Grey, governor, high commissioner, and premier : an historical biography (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1909), by James Collier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of the Australasian colonies (from their foundation in the year 1893) (The University Press, 1896), by Edward Jenks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on early life in new Zealand. (J. Walch, 1903), by George Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murihiku and the Southern islands. A history of the west coast sounds, Foveaux Strait, Stewart Island, the Snares, Bounty, Antipodes, Auckland, Campbell and Macquarie Islands, from 1770 to 1829. (W. Smith, printer, 1907), by Robert McNab (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of New Zealand (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1903), by Arnold Wilfrid Shrimpton and Alan Edward Mulgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of Aotea (Lyttelton Times Co., 1924), by T. G. Hammond (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Zealand; by Reginald Horsley ... With twelve reproductions in colour from drawings (T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1908), by Reginald Ernest Horsley and A. D. McCormick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Men of mark of New Zealand / ed. by Alfred Cox. (Whitcombe & Tombs (Limited), 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of New Zealand history. (Edwards, 1886), by John Howard Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of New Zealand (Whitcombe & Tombs ;, 1896), by Alfred Saunders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Australasia : from the first dawn of discovery in the Southern ocean to the establishment of self-government in the various colonies, comprising the settlement and history of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand, together with some account of Fiji and New Guinea (McGready, Thompson & Niven, 1878), by David Blair (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New Zealand wars; a history of the Maori campaigns and the pioneering period. (R.E. Owen, Govt. Printer, 1922), by James Cowan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Tasman to Marsden : A history of northern New Zealand, from 1642 to 1818 (J. Wilkie & co., ltd., 1914), by Robert McNab (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoir of the life and episcopate of George Augustus Selwyn, D.D. : Bishop of New Zealand, 1841-1869; Bishop of Lichfield, 1867-1878 (W.W. Gardner, 1879), by H. W. Tucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report : together with the minutes of evidence, appendix, and index. (s.n.], 1844), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on New Zealand (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Oamaru and North Otago, New Zealand, from 1853 to the end of 1889 (A. Fraser, 1890), by W. H. Sherwood Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Past & present, and men of the times : with portrait of the author and other illustrations (McKee & Gamble, 1897), by William Jackson Barry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maori king. (Macmillan, 1864), by John Eldon Gorst (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Zealand in evolution, industrial, economic and political (Scribner, 1909), by Guy Hardy Scholefield and William Pember Reeves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The past and present of New Zealand; with its prospects for the future. (W. Macintosh, 1868), by Richard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last Maori war in New Zealand under the self-reliant policy (S. Low, Marston & company, 1902), by George S. Whitmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British colonization of New Zealand; being an account of the principles, objects, and plans of the New Zealand Association, together with particulars concerning the position, extent, soil and climate, natural productions, and native inhabitants of New Zealand. (John W. Parker, 1837), by Edward Jerningham Wakefield and John Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Australia and New Zealand from 1606 to 1901 (Longmans, Green, and Co.; [etc., etc.], 1901), by Alexander Sutherland and George Sutherland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maori & Pakeha; a history of New Zealand (Whitcombe & Tombs, limited, 1921), by A. W. Shrimpton and Alan Edward Mulgan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The New Zealand colony; its geography and history. (E. Arnold, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peredovai͡a demokratīi͡a sovremennago mīra : Anglīĭskai͡a kolonīi͡a Novai͡a Zelandīi͡a (Izd. G.Ḟ. Lʹvovicha, 1905), by Pavel Grigorʹevich Mizhuev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Oamaru and North Otago, New Zealand, from 1853 to the end of 1889. (Andrew Fraser, 1890), by William Henry Sherwood Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Zealand rulers and statesmen from 1840 to 1885 (S. Low, Marston - company, limited, 1886), by William Gisborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old frontier. Te Awamutu, the story of the Waipa Valley; the missionary, the soldier, the pioneer farmer, early colonization, the war in Waikato, life on the Maori border and later-day settlement. (The Waipa Post Printing and Publishing Co., 1922), by James Cowan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sketches of early colonisation in New Zealand and its phases of contact with the Maori race (Whitcombe and Tombs limited, 1907), by Te Manuwiri (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From Tasman to Marsden; a history of northern New Zealand from 1642 to 1818. (J. Wilkie, 1914), by Robert McNab (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contributions to the early history of New Zealand (S. Low, Marston and company, limited, 1898), by Thomas Morland Hocken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on New Zealand, in February 1846 (Hocken Library, 1969), by Robert Fitzroy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Polynesia, or, An historical account of the principal islands in the South Sea, including New Zealand, the introduction of Christianity, and the actual condition of the inhabitants in regard to civilization, commerce, and the arts of social life (Harper, 1855), by Michael Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Australasian colonies : (from their foundation to the year 1911). (The University Press, 1912), by Edward Jenks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The life, experience, and journal of Nathaniel Pidgeon, city missionary. (Smith and Gardiner, 1857), by Nathaniel Pidgeon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old New Zealand : a tale of the good old times ; and a History of the war in the north against the Chief Heke, in the year 1845, told by an old chief of the Ngapuhi Tribe ; also Maori traditions (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1930), by Pakeha Maori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edward Gibbon Wakefield the colonization of South Australia and New Zealand (T. Fisher Unwin, 1898), by Richard Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australasia, the Commonwealth, and New Zealand (G.N. Morang, 1901), by Arthur W. Jose (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Zealand and the South Sea Islands, and their relation to the empire : a paper read at the Royal Colonial Institute, on the 19th day of March 1878, His Grace the Duke of Manchester, K.P., in the chair (Edward Stanford, 1878), by Julius Vogel, Edward Stanford, William Drogo Montagu Manchester, and Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian commonwealth; New South Wales, Tasmania,Victoria,Western Australia,South Australia,Queensland,New Zealand. (T.F.Unwin, 1893), by Greville Tregarthen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and times of Patuone, the celebrated Ngapuhi chief (J.H. Field, 1876), by C. O. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of New Zealand: past and present--savage and civilized. (J. Murray, 1859), by Arthur S. Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australasia, the commonwealth, and New Zealand (J.M. Dent & Co., 1914), by Arthur W. Jose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Australian dictionary of dates and men of the time: containing the history of Australasia from 1542 to date. (S.W. Silver & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1879), by J. Henniker Heaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of New Zealand. (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1899), by Alfred Saunders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The British colonization of New Zealand being an account of the principles, objects, and plans of the New Zealand Association, together with particulars concerning the position, extent, soil and climate, natural productions, and native inhabitants of New Zealand (John W. Parker, 1837), by Edward Jerningham Wakefield, John Ward, and New Zealand Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The progress of New Zealand in the century (The Linscott publishing company;, 1902), by R. F. Irvine and O. T. J. Alpers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Zealand, by William Pember Reeves, illust. by F. Wright and Walter Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• New Zealand, by Reginald Horsley, illust. by A. D. McCormick (Gutenberg ebook)
• History of Australia and New Zealand from 1606 to 1890, by Alexander Sutherland and George Sutherland (Gutenberg ebook)

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