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Fisher, Edward (Dublin 1730 - London ca. 1785). St. Matthew. Done from an original picture in the collection of Mr. Hone. Spagneletto pinx. E. Fisher fecit. London, Laurie & Whittle, 12. May 1794. Beautiful mezzotint engraving by Edward Fisher after Giuseppe Ribera, nicknamed il Spagnoletto, with plate-number 36; showing the bust of St.Matthew with white hair and beard, reading a book. ca. 33 x 23 cm. (# 5798)

Nagler V, 22 and XIV, 394. Thieme-Becker XII, 54 and XXVIII, 233. Edward Fisher (Dublin 1730 - London ca. 1785) was a brilliant Irish engraver of mezzotints. Giuseppe (Jusepe, José) de Ribera (Játiba ca. 1588-1590 - Naples ca. 1652-1656), with nick name "Lo Spagnoletto", little Spaniard, was a famous Spanish baroque painter, who worked in Naples. - Very lightly foxed, with ample margins; with collector's stamp on verso of the "Grossh. Museum zu Schwerin" (Lugt No. 2273).

Galesinus, P. Il perfetto dittionario overo tesoro della lingua volgarlatina ... Con il Dittionario Latino, accomodato alle voci volgari, di M. Cesare Calderino... Accresciuto, et ampliato ... da Gio. Francesco Besozzo. Ricorretto, & arricchito delle Osservationi della Lingua Volgare di D. Andrea Salici, e dell' Ortografia d'Aldo Manutio: con un' Opuscoletto intitolato Mercurius Bilinguis. Venetia, (G.B.) Cestari, 1665. Woodcut printer's mark on each title. 4 parts in 1 volume. Pp. 1-476; pp. 477-704; 96 pp., 47, 1 pp. 8vo. Contemporary vellum (a few light stains, lower spine-end very slightly damaged). (# 5054)

Collective volume of 2 important dictionaries and 2 other linguistic works on the Italian language. Each work has a separate title-page. Salici's work has the date 1664; The Mercurius Bilinguis, composed by W. Bates of Ireland, is also dated 1664; it contains a number of proverbs and has on the last page an"Alphabetum Graecum", surrounded by a typographical border. Calderinus' work is dated 1665. - The parts are bound in a wrong order. Occasionally slightly browned. Handwritten ownership entry on title of Salici; inside front-cover ownership entry: "ex libris Philippi Hermann".

(George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland) - Mémoires du regne de George I, roi de la Grande Bretagne, de France et d'Irlande ... La Haye (The Hague), J. van Duren and A. Moetjens, 1729 - 1731. Engraved vignette on each title, engraved portrait (repeated twice), and 2 genealogical plates. 5 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary uniform calf, back gilt with labels (rubbed; corners, lower spine-ends and a few joints somewhat damaged). (# 3772)

Not in Barbier. Lowndes 878. First edition. Anonymous history of the reign of George I (1660 - 1727), king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1714. At the end of the 4th volume: "Catalogue des livres nouveaux et autres, qui se trouvent chez Adrien Moetjens" (7 pp.). - Slightly browned; small marginal wormtrack at the end of the 2nd volume and the beginning of the 5th volume.

The Royal Kalendar: and court and city register, for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies, for the year 1839. Including a correct list of the thirteenth Imperial Parliament, summoned to meet for their first session November 15, 1837. London, T.C. Hansard, (1839). 34, 408 pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf (corners damaged, rubbed). (# 5264)

Includes an almanac for the year 1839. Contains the names of the members of Parliament, officers of the state, law, army and navy, ecclesiastical establishments, literary, scientific and charitable institutions, commercial companies, insurance societies, universities, etc. Among the British colonies and islands: Malta, Ionian Islands (i.a. Corfu), Canada, Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua, Trinidad, Bermuda, Bahama, Ceylon, Australia, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Gambia, etc. - Very slightly browned.