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He is said by Junius to have printed, about the year 1442 that is, two years after Koster's death the Doctrinale of Alexander Gallus and the Tracts of Peter of Spain, with the very types which Koster made use of in Haarlem; but as no volume of this kind has ever been discovered, nor any trace of one, the entire story is generally regarded as apocryphal.
It leads through a forest, the first 800 or 1,000 feet through dense undergrowth under the trees, the mosses and ferns forming a veritable carpet; above that the woods are more open at about 2,500 feet the forest ceases. It is called Koster's Trail.
There is a story current, dependent on the authority of Junius, that Koster's principal workman, assumed to be Hans or John Faust and some, to reconcile improbabilities, even say John Gutenberg who had been sworn to secrecy, decamped one Christmas Eve, after the death of Koster, while the family were at church, taking with him types and printing apparatus and, after short sojourns at Amsterdam and Cologne, got to Mainz or Mayence with them, and there introduced printing.
Luccock resided eleven years in Brazil, and he seems to have been a careful observer; his work gives much new and important information on agriculture, statistics, commerce, mines, manners, &c., but it is heavily written. Koster's Travels in the Brazils. 1816. 4to.
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