Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Wings for words	Douglas C. McMurtrie	A biography of the man who developed the process of printing from moveable type in the fifteenth century.	OL1302246W
Summa Theologica	Thomas Aquinas,Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930	Thomas's magnum opus, comprising a systematic integration of Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity. Covers topics such as the nature and existence of God, human nature, law and morality and the r…	OL15314568W
Griechische Palaeographie	Viktor Emil Gardthausen	Ein profundes Werk zur griechichen Paläographie, bis heute ein Standardwerk. Erste Auflage, Leipzig, 1879: • 1 Band, gegliedert in 3 Bücher: Material, Schriftwesen, Unterschriften und Chronologi…	OL15689546W
What is a book?	Joseph A. Dane	"Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as…	OL16489930W
A German printer	Giovanni Caselli	Describes the day-to-day life and work of a fifteenth-century printer in Nuremberg, Germany, as seen through the eyes of his twelve-year-old son.	OL16992289W
Johann Gutenberg and the invention of printing	Brayton Harris	A biography of the man who developed printing from moveable type in the fifteenth century.	OL17105037W
Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century in Swedish collections	Wolfgang Undorf	"The first major Swedish contribution to international incunabula research since the middle of the 20th century. Wolfgang Undorf revitalizes the seminal contributions by 19th century Swedish scholars…	OL23221265W
Zachariae Lilii Vicentini canonici regularis Orbis breuiarium fide, compendio, ordineq[ue] captu ac…	Zaccaria Lilio	A compendium of geographical information taken from a large number of classical sources, arranged alphabetically by place, with a summary of names ("Vrbes celebriores quae in hoc libro continentur") …	OL24997449W
Liber chronicarum	Hartmann Schedel	Better known as the "Nuremberg Chronicle", it is a densely illustrated (over 1800 woodcuts)universal world history first published in Latin circa 1493.	OL2528396W