Early New Zealand Books

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Early New Zealand Books (ENZB) is a project from the library of the

University of Auckland Library and is freely available on the internet.[1][2][3]

Each page is linked to an image of that page from the original book. This provides researchers with assurance of accuracy. There are special searches for captions to illustrations and chapter summaries as well as a general full-text search across the whole corpus. The images are available at original size and extra-large. Books are also available as downloadable

ePub ebooks. It is one of a number of projects at the University of Auckland library that use the b-engine rendering engine. In February 2015 three hundred and twenty-seven volumes have been digitized. Twenty-seven were contributed by Auckland Libraries and twenty-four by the Auckland War Memorial Museum.[1]

It is distinct from a similar collection of digitized older New Zealand publications, viz. the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection from Victoria University of Wellington.[4]

It does not include the rarest early New Zealand book A History of the Birds of New Zealand by ornithologist Walter Buller and plates by the artist JG Keulemans.[5]

List of books

Key works highlighted.

References

  1. ^ a b "ENZB Early New Zealand Books". University of Auckland Library. Archived from the original on 9 October 2006. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Early New Zealand Books (ENZB) - University of Otago, New Zealand". Otago University Library. Archived from the original on 11 October 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  3. ^ "The early New Zealand books [electronic resource] : enzb / the University of Auckland Library". National Library of New Zealand. 1 January 2005. Archived from the original on 9 February 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  4. Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Ministry for Culture and Heritage
    . Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  5. ^ "A Search for the Holy Grail of Rare Books". Newsroom. 8 July 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2021.

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