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NYM(G.762.080
16 Aug 1762:41 (524)
Musick & instruments, to be dispos'd of by a gentleman
lately arrived from London. A large and curious collection
of it in manuscript (warranted correct) and in print;
consisting of Concerto's, among which are 16 of the famous
Duke of Capati, of Naples, which no body else has compleat.
Sonata's, solo's, duets, opera songs in Italian and English
in score, and the prettiest of them transposed into easy
keys, for the German flute, violin, or harpsichord, to
accompany the voice; they may be play'd either lesson ways,
or with the thorough bass, in the nature of Venetian
ballads, in 2 parts; they are by Leo, Pergolete, Hasse,
Galuppi, Handel, &c. Among which are McGibbon and Carusis,
famous, easy,, and very pretty trio's; Camini, Handel, and
Gerard's, famous, easy and pretty duets; likewise Seiss's
and Dotzel's 12 nocturnals; Col. Reid's famous solo's. All
the old and new Scots songs and tunes, with the variations
by Messs. Monro, Rutherford, Oswald, McGibbon and Bremner.
Polly an opera (and other opera's) by Mr. Gay, with the
musick for the voice, accompanied with the harpsichord, or
any other instrument. The merry mountebank, viz. humourous
songs with the musick, accompanied with the harpsichord, &c.
Lampe's 60 famous songs (and others) with the thorough bass,
with vast large copper plates to each song. Guitar musick.
Variety of harpsichord musick. Signor Pasquali's new art of
fingering it; likewise his rules for playing thorough bass
without a master. A great collection of new and old printed
English single songs with their musick. Crome's fiddle new
modell'd, by way of question and answer (with many copper
plates) or rules to play it well, without a master, new
country dances, minuets, Scots reels, march's, hornpipes,
&c. in different books. Books of instructions for singing,
and for all instruments singly, and for transposing musick
into proper keys for your instrument, by Rutherford,
Johnson, Thompson, &c. Pocket, and large rul'd books, for
the harpsichord, &c. some of the pocket ones fill'd with
songs, solo's duets, march's gigs, minuets, &c. Some good
German flutes at 3 dollars a piece; others with 2 or 3
middle pieces, to lower the pitch to accompany the voice, or
any wind instrument. Fiddles lin'd, and corner stopt to
strengthen them, and to prevent their unglewing in hot or
moist weather, at all prices from 3 dollars. A tenor
violin. A fine small 6 string'd bass-viol, hautboys and
reeds, common flutes of all sizes, some of them exceeding
fine; march, troop, and grenadier fifes of all sizes,
fiddle (and bass viol) bridges well season'd, at 6s. per
dozen, breech pins, tail pieces, &c. Fiddle bows (and
Giardini's new invented ones) of all lengths, constructions
and quality's, from 3s. each and upwards, and spare nuts,
fiddle and bass viol strings of all sorts, sizes and prices,
from 5s a bundle (viz. 30 strings) and upwards, with a great
many other things in the musical way. Pocket maps of
Virginia, Maryland, &c. in 8 sheets, with the waggon roads,
by Col. John Dairymple. A pair of lege pistols. A
collection of books in most languages and faculties, viz.
mathematicks, fortification, the classics, French &c.
histories, lives, law, novels, plays, pamphlets &c. The
above collected mostly for his own use, in his travels
through Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and elsewhere.
N.B. He lodges at Mr. Earle's, a hatter, in Dock-Street,
facing Beekman's-Slip.
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