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BPB.764.015
25 Jun 1764:13 (358)
Musick, and instruments, to be dispos'd of by a gentleman
from London, a large and curious collection of it in
manuscript (warranted correct) and in print, viz.
Italian and English opera songs in score; and the prettiest
of 'em transpos'd into easy keys for the German flute,
violin, or harpsichord, &c. to accompany the voice; they may
be play'd either as lessons, or with the thorough bass in
the nature of Venetian ballads in 2 parts; they are by Leo,
Pergolese, Hasse, Galuppi, Handel, &c. Concerto's by
Vivaldi, Mossi Romano, Tessarini, Alberti, Shickhardt;
Corbet's 35 grand ones (which imitates the taste of all the
nations in the world) Boismortier, &c. McGibbon and Carusi's
famous and easy pretty trio's; likewise Corelli's, Hasse's,
Granoon's, Humphry's, Bessossi's, &c. Camini and Gerard's
pretty and easy duets; likewise [ ]'s & Dotzel's 12
nocturnals, the 55 new Militia Marches, Nanuet, Pond,
Musicae Spiritus by Handel, 40 Tattoo's (18 divertimenti,
and the delightful Pocket Companion two books for 2 guitars)
Burney, &c. Great variety for a violincello's, Col. Reid's
pretty and easy solo's, Corelli, Hasse, Castrucci 2 vols.
Veracini, Geminiani, Biber, the 4 Seasons by Oswald, in 2 or
3 parts, &c. All the old and new Scotch songs and tunes,
with their variations, in 37 vols. by Messi'rs Rutherford,
Oswald, Munro, McGibbon and Bremuer; Polly (and other
opera's) by Mr. Gay, with the musick for the voice
accompanied with the harpsichord or any other instrument, at
30s. O.T. The merry Mountebank, viz. humorous songs, with
the musick accompany'd with the harpsichord, &c, at 15s,
O.T. Pasquali's new art of fingering the harpsichord;
likewise his rules for learning thorough bass without a
master; Handel, Smith, and Roseingrave's lessons, Handel and
Felton's organ concerto's; Lampe's 30 famous songs with the
thorough bass, with vast large and beautiful copper plates
to each song; a great collection of old and new printed
English single songs, with their musick; the fiddle new
modell'd (with 25 copper plates) or rules to play it well
without a master, by question and answer; old & new country
dances, minuets, Scots reels, marches, hornpipes, &c. in
different books at 10s O.T. each. Tutors for singing, and
for all instruments singly, and for transposing musick into
proper keys for your instruments, by Rutherford, Johnson and
Thompson; pocket and large rul'd books for the harpsichord,
&c. some of the pocket ones are filled with songs, solo's,
duets, marches, jigs, minuets, &c., some good German flutes
at 3 dollars apiece, others with 2 or 3 middle pieces to
lower the pitch the accompany the voice, or any wind
instrument, and voice flutes; common flutes of all sizes at
a dollar each, and upwards, some of 'em exceeding good;
hautboys & reeds; fiddles, lines & corner stopt, to
strengthen 'em, and to prevent their unglewing, in hot, or
moist weather, from 3 dollars and upwards, some of 'em are
the best made in London; a tenor violin; a fine 6 string
bass viol & case for a girl; fiddle bows (and Giardini's new
invented ones) of all lengths, from 20 s O.T. each and
upwards, and spare nuts; fiddle (& bass viol) bridges, well
season'd, at 40s O.T., per doz, pegs, tailpieces and
breechpins; fiddle & bass viol strings of all sizes and
prices, from 30s. O.T. a bundle (viz. 30 strings) and
upwards; with a great many other things in the musical way.
The above mostly collected for his own use, in his travels
thro' Italy, Germany, Frances, Spain, and elsewhere; which
is now disposing of, as he is to return soon to England. A
new pocket map of Virginia and Maryland, with part of the
Jerseys, Pennsylvania, and North-Carolina, on 8 sheets, with
the waggon roads up to Pittsburg, and the cross roads, very
useful for those who travel to the southward.--N.B. He
lodges at Mr. Richardson's, the bottom of Cold-Lane, by
Hanover-Street.
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