Month: June 2021

Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’s Strait…

to cooperate with the Polar expeditions… in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28.

Frederick William Beechey

First edition. 

London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.

Horden House Rare Books, Sydney.  

Eliza Giffard. Two volumes, quarto, with two large folding engraved maps, one double page map, and 23 plates. Bound in original plain boards, rebacked. Covers of both volumes inscribed ‘Captain Beechey’s Voyage’, and volume number, in Giffard’s hand. 

The Triumphs of Temper

a poem in six cantos.

William Hayley, Esq.

Eighth edition, corrected. 

London: Printed for T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, (Successors to Mr. Cadell), in the Strand, MDCCMCV [1795].

New York University, Special Collections. 

Inscribed “Mary Eleanora Giffard, Nerquis, 1807” on title-page. Bound in speckled calf, gilt borders on front and rear boards, marbled endpapers. 

Full bibliographic information

Title-page of book with ownership inscription
Title-page of “The Triumphs of temper” (1795), showing ownership inscription. Courtesy NYU Special Collections.

Fourteen Sermons Preach’d on Several Occasions.

Together with a Large Vindication of the Doctrine contain’d in the sermon preach’d at the funeral of mr. thomas bennet.

Francis Atterbury

First edition. 

London: Printed by E.P. for James Bowler, 1708..

Bow Window Books.

Contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. Signed on front pastedown: ‘Eliza Giffard – Nerquis, Flintshire 1807′.

Note: book includes folded sheet containing extracts of poetry in another hand, circa 1849. Also with bookseller’s invoice from Arnold Muirhead, St. Alban’s, dating from 1966.