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Otto, Carl
JOHANNES COCHLAEUS, DER HUMANIST
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Breslau, G. P. Aderholz Buchhandlung, 1874, turn-of-the-century Viennese half cloth, bound for E.P. Goldschmidt, with his initials at the foot of the spine
First edition, near fine
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E.P. Goldschmidt's Copy
First edition. Bookseller's ticket on the front pastedown, else a near fine copy.
"Cochlaeus, a Nuremberg Schoolteacher, the author of some grammars and geographical commentaries...was a great favorite of E.P. Goldschmidt - he read through all his books, especially the prefaces (he often said, 'Read the preface, rememember Dibdin')" - Ernst Weil in his memoir of Goldschmidt in Journal of the History of Medicine for April 1954, p. 229.
Goldschmidt published Johannes Cochlaeus and a Problem in XVIth Century Cartography in the Geographical Journal in 1933, citing this book as his only authority.
Breslau: G. P. Aderholz Buchhandlung, 1874; 8vo., turn-of-the-century Viennese half cloth, bound for E.P. Goldschmidt, with his initials at the foot of the spine; 199 pages. Book # 142256
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