Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, (1999), First Edition. octavo, printed boards. (xiv), (426) pp. MIT Press, This volume examines the transformation in ways of studying nature that took place in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Some of the essays trace particular textual traditions, while others follow the development..... More
Cambridge: Harvard Univ Press, 1997, First American Edition. octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. (xiv), 241pp. Harvard Univ Press, "...footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form." Very fine in jacket... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; Belknap Press, 2020, First Edition. large octavo, boards in dust jacket. 392 pp. Harvard University Press; Belknap Press, From Francis Bacon to Barack Obama, thinkers and political leaders have denounced humanists as obsessively bookish and allergic to labor. In this celebration of bookmaking in all..... More