A diverse range of texts are included in this collection; however, all share in common an association with New Zealand.
From works published more than a century ago, to those published within the last few years, it aims to make some of New Zealand's most important texts easily available to all. The collection includes significant works from Katherine Mansfield, Samuel Butler, Elsdon Best, Charles Darwin and Lady Mary Anne Barker, among many others.
- The 'Sure to Rise' Cookery Book
- The New Zealanders at Gallipoli
- Was It All Cricket?
- War Economy Recipe Book
- Cheerful Yesterdays
- Kaipara, or, Experiences of a settler in north New Zealand
- Past and Present, and Men of the Times.
- My Life
- We Will Not Cease
- The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771 [Volume One]
- The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768–1771 [Volume Two]
- The Life of Captain James Cook
- Captain Cook and Captain Bligh
- Cook the Man
- On the Character of Captain James Cook
- The Death Of Captain Cook
- Erewhon
- Eighteenth Century Science and the Voyages of Discovery
- The Wandering Scholars
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
- The Maoris in the Great War
- Some Problems of Cook's Biographer
- Cook the Navigator
- Some Problems of Editing Cook's Journals
- Cook the Writer
- The Great Journey: an expedition to explore the interior of the Middle Island, New Zealand, 1846-8
- Sir Donald Maclean
- Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori
- Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage of H.M.S. "Beagle" round the world, under the command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N.
- Gallipoli Diary
- The Life and Times of Patuone
- Life and Work of Samuel Marsden
- The Life and Work of Richard John Seddon
- The Trials of Eric Mareo
- Private J. D. Caves: The Long Journey Home
- In Peace & War: A Civilian Soldier's Story
- Infantry Brigadier
- The Autobiography of a Maori
- The Story of a Maori Chief
- Nursing in New Zealand: History and Reminiscences
- Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by A Pakeha Maori
- Geoffrey Alley, Librarian: His Life & Work
- Crusoes of Sunday Island
- Henry Lawson Among Maoris
- Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
- Yesterdays in Maoriland
- Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny
- The Adventures of a Surveyor in New Zealand and the Australian Gold Diggings
- The Early Journals of Henry Williams
- Some Chapters in the Life and Times of Te Rauparaha
- Pioneering the Pumice
- My First Eighty Years
- Through Ninety Years
- Medicine Amongst the Maoris, in Ancient and Modern Times
- Vikings of the Sunrise
- State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy: Crown-Maori Relations in New Zealand/Aotearoa 1900-1950
- Takitimu
- Nga kōrero a Reweti Kohere Mā
- Plume of the Arawas
- The Maori - Volume I
- The Maori - Volume II
- The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical
- The Maori As He Was : A Brief Account of Maori Life as it was in Pre-European Days
- Polynesian Voyagers. The Maori as a Deep-sea Navigator, Explorer, and Colonizer
- The Maori Division of Time
- The Aborigines of New Zealand: Two Lectures
- The Moa-Hunters of New Zealand: Sportsman of the Stone Age
- Notes on the Ancient Dog of the New Zealanders
- The Maori: Yesterday and To-day
- Polynesian Researches
- The Maori King
- Ko Nga Moteatea, Me Nga Hakirara O Nga Maori
- Polynesian Mythology and Ancient Traditional History of the New Zealand Race
- The Old-Time Maori
- Murihiku: A History of the South Island of New Zealand and the Islands Adjacent and Lying to the South, from 1642 to 1835
- Legends of the Maori
- Legends of the Maori
- The Maoris of the South Island
- Aureretanga: Groans of the Maoris
- The Maori Situation
- Te Ika a Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants
- Sketches of Early Colonisation in New Zealand and its Phases of Contact with the Maori Race
- The Maori Race
- A Grammar and Vocabulary of the Language of New Zealand.
- Grammar of the New Zealand Language
- A Leaf from the Natural History of New Zealand
- First Lessons in Maori
- A Dictionary of the Maori Language
- Follow the Call
- Station Amusements
- Station Life in New Zealand
- From a Garden in the Antipodes
- Day and Night
- Time and Place
- Indirections: A Memoir 1909-1947
- Musings in Maoriland
- A First Year in Canterbury Settlement With Other Early Essays
- New Zealand Bird Songs
- Check to Your King
- The Godwits Fly
- Journalese
- Promenade
- The Aloe
- The Garden Party and Other Stories
- In A German Pension
- Something Childish and Other Stories
- The Story of a New Zealand River
- Man Alone
- The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I
- Coal Flat
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- Island Stories
- The Life of Katherine Mansfield
- Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows
- Recollecting Mansfield
- Introduction to In A German Pension
- Introduction to The Maori As He Was
- Introduction to Old New Zealand
- Introduction to Polynesian Researches
- The Early Canterbury Runs: Containing the First, Second and Third (new) Series
- The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
- New Zealand's Burning — The Settlers' World in the Mid 1880s
- Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
- Earliest New Zealand
- Picturesque Dunedin: or Dunedin and its neighbourhood in 1890
- The First Ascent of Mount Ruapehu
- White Wings Vol I. Fifty Years Of Sail In The New Zealand Trade, 1850 TO 1900
- White Wings Vol II. Founding Of The Provinces And Old-Time Shipping. Passenger Ships From 1840 To 1885
- La Nouvelle-Zélande
- Hero Stories of New Zealand
- Fulbright in New Zealand
- An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty, for making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, and successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn from the Journals which were kept by the several Commanders, and from the Papers of Joseph Banks, Esq. [Vol. II]
- Pioneering Reminiscences of Old Wairoa
- The Jubilee History of Nelson: From 1842 to 1892.
- Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z.
- Historical Records of New Zealand
- The Old Whaling Days
- From Tasman To Marsden.
- Illustrated Guide to Christchurch and Neighbourhood
- Temperance and Prohibition in New Zealand
- Maori and Missionary: Early Christian Missions in the South Island of New Zealand
- New Zealand's First Refugees: Pahiatua's Polish Children
- The Long White Cloud
- History of New Zealand
- History of New Zealand. Vol. II.
- History of New Zealand. Vol. III.
- The Southern Districts of New Zealand
- Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century:
- The Past and Present Of New Zealand With Its Prospects for the Future
- Some Interesting Occurrences in Early Auckland: City and Provinces
- Early Wellington
- Plantarum Novarum Ex Herbario Sprengelii Centuriam, Speciminis Loco Inauguralis, ut Doctoris Medici Gradum adipisgatur, ad diem 30 Maii 1807 exhibet Ioann. Frider. Theod. Biehler, Berolinas.
- A History of the Birds of New Zealand.
- The Study of Mathematics
- The Cultivation of New Zealand Plants
- The Vegetation of New Zealand
- Forest Vines to Snow Tussocks: The Story of New Zealand Plants
- Bird Life on Island and Shore
- Tutira
- Birds of the Water Wood & Waste
- Botanical Discovery in New Zealand: The Resident Botanists
- Botanical Discovery in New Zealand: The Visiting Botanists
- Mathematics at Victoria in Retrospect
