Author: MEURS, P. VAN, Title: De Keulsche kroniek en de Costerlegende van Dr. A. van der Linde tezamen getoetst door Dr. P. van Meurs.
Description: Haarlem, A.C. Kruseman, 1870, viii, 65pp. original softcover paper binding. Spine suffering. Treatise on the invention of printing by Laurens Janszoon Coster. Laurens Janszoon Coster, Coster also spelled Koster, (born c. 1370, Netherlands-died 1440?, Haarlem?), Dutch rival of Johannes Gutenberg as the alleged inventor of printing.Little is known of this early printer, whose last name means “sacristan,” his title as an official of the Great Church of Haarlem. He is mentioned several times in records between 1417 and 1434 as alderman, tax assessor, and treasurer and is presumed to have died in a plague that struck Haarlem in 1440, when his wife is recorded as a widow.
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Price: EUR 115.00 = appr. US$ 124.99 Seller: Antiquariaat Goltzius
- Book number: 70241
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