[Rarebooks] FS: 18th Century Death Song of the Cherokee Indian

[Charles Agvent]

GIORDANI,  Giuseppe/Tommaso.  THE CELEBRATED DEATH  SONG
          OF THE  CHEROKEE INDIAN and Ten Other Songs. London:  Longman
          and Broderip  [1785].  Folio (9" x 13") bound in later  cloth
          with a  leather  spine  label. A collection of 11  songs  and
          ballads,  entirely  engraved,  including: "Lady  Jane  Gray's
          Lamentation  to  Lord  Guilford Dudley" and  "The  Celebrated
          Death Song  of  the  Cherokee Indian" (both  with  parts  for
          guitar  and German flute), "Margaret's Ghost" (with parts for
          Harpsichord  and  German  flute or guitar), "Slave  Bear  the
          Sparkling    Goblet   Round"  (with    adaptation   for   the
          harpsichord),  "Balow  My  Babe"  (with  adaptation  for  the
          harpsichord),  "The  New Gilderoy" (with adaptation  for  the
          harpsichord),   "Gentle  River"  (with   adaptation  for  the
          harpsichord,  piano  forte, or harp), "Bryan  and  Pereene: A
          West India  Ballad Founded on a Real Fact that Happen'd  near
          the Island  of  St. Christophers," "Damon and Delia," "O  Say
          Bonny Lass"  (with adaptation for the guitar), and "Litot que
          Lubin maima."  Cloth  chipped  at spine tips;  leather  label
          mostly eroded. Contents clean. Very Good              $750.00


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