In this episode of the Awekura series we talk with Renée Orr, Rare Book specialist and Curatorial Services Team Leader at Auckland Council Libraries Heritage Collections. Renee shares with us a rare 17th Century book, its history and provenance, to this recently donated gift to the Heritage Collection.

It’s a bit of a tongue twister of a title! "The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: Namely, that True Prophet, and Faithful Servant of God, and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs, who Dyed a Prisoner for the Word of God, in the City of London, the Fourteenth of the Twelfth Moneth, 1662".

The book was printed in 1672 in London and is a collection of the writings of influential Quaker, Edward Burrough.

Read more about the book and find links to related material here:

https://heritageetal.blogspot.com/2025/11/awekura-edward-burrough-1634-1663.html

Image: A collage produced by Julian Lubin from photographs of the Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.