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

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, New Zealand, launched in 2005, that aims at providing keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century. It also includes the subsequently published memoirs, journals and correspondence of people active in this era. The project has been funded and managed by the

University of Auckland Library , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn ...

and is freely available on the internet. 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

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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

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and twenty-four by the

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. It is distinct from a similar collection of digitised older New Zealand publications, ''viz.'' the New Zealand Electronic Text Collection from

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. 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.

List of books

References

External links

Official ENZB website

b-engine website
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