From Credit to Public Course: Teaching the History of the Book to

a Wider Audience

49th Annual RBMS Preconference

Los Angeles, June 25, 2008

Pablo Alvarez

University of Rochester

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Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences: des arts et des metiers, par une societe de gens de letres. Mis en ordre et publie. 17 vols. Livourne:

Imprimerie des editeurs, 1770-5.

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Thomas AquinasSumma theologiae: Pars secunda: secunda

pars. [Esslingen: Conrad Fyner], 1472.

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Fasciculus Temporum. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 24 Nov. 1480.

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Nicolai Copernici Torinensis de Revolvtionibus orbium coelestium,

Libri VI. Basle: Heinrich Petri, 1566.

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Geographia Vniversalis, vetvs et nova, complectens Clavdii Ptolemaei

Alexandrini enarrationis libros VIII. Basle: Heinrich Petri, 1545.

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Omnivm opervm Divi Evsebii Hieronymi Stridonensis, Tomvs Primvs cum Argumentis et Scholiis Des. Erasmi Roterodami. 9 vols. Basle:

Johann Froben, 1516.

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D. Junii Juvenalis Satyrae et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1761.

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