Ernst Philip Goldschmidt, internationally known book dealer and antiquarian, died here this week-end at the age of 66.
Mr. Goldschmidt was born in Vienna where he acquired ownership of a famous bookselling business. However, he was hard hit financially in the post-World War I period and migrated to Britain where he re-established himself in the book business.
He issued more than 100 scholarly catalogues, many of which are now standard fixtures of libraries, during his 30 years of business in England. He wrote several books on antique manuscripts and, under a pseudonym, published in 1942 a statement on Britain’s trading situation and a forecast of the country’s economic future.
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