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Index Entry Alberti, concertos, for sale by gentleman from London 
Location Boston 
Citation
BEP(F.764.019
9 Jul 1764:12 (1505)
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. M'Gibbon and Carusi's
famous and easy pretty trio's; likewise Corelli's, Hasse's,
Granom's, Humphrey's, Bessossi's, &c. Camini and Gerard's
pretty and easy duets; likewise Seiss's & Dotzel's 123
nocturnals, the 55 new militia marches, Nandot, Putti,
Musicae Spiritus by Handel, 40 tattoo's (18 divertimenti,
and the delightful Pocket Companion two books for 2 guitars)
Burney, &c.  Great variety for 2 violoncello'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 27 vols. by Messi'rs Rutherford,
Oswald, Munro, M'Gibbon and Bremner; Polly (and other
opera's) by Mr. Gay, with 71 songs for the voice accompanied
with the harpsichord or any other instrument, at 30s. O.T. 
The merry Mountebank, viz. humerous 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 60 famous songs with the
thorough bass, with vast large and beautiful copper plates
to each song; a great collection of old & 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 & 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 in to
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 to 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, line & 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 20s. 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, France, 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 Pittsburgh, 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.


Generic Title Boston Evening Post (Fleet) 
Date 1764.07.09 
Publisher Fleet, T. and J. 
City, State Boston, MA 
Year 1764 
Bibliography B0003297
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