Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship, Oxford-Warburg Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983-1993).
avec Lisa Jardine, From Humanism to the Humanities. Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe (London: Duckworth, 1986).
Forgers and Critics. Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990). Trad. : Faussaires et critiques. Créativité et duplicité chez les érudits occidentaux, Histoire, Les Belles Lettres, 1993, 162p.
Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in the Age of Science, 1450-1800 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991).
Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997).
The Footnote: A Curious History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997). Trad. : Les origines tragiques de l'érudition. Une histoire de la note en bas de page, Seuil, 1998, 219 p.
Cardano's Cosmos : The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).
What Was History?: The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
avec Megan Hale Williams, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).
La page de l'Antiquité à l'ère du numérique : histoire, usages, esthétiques (Paris : Hazan, 2012 ; collection : Essais ; thématique : La chaire du Louvre).
Magus. The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa (Harvard, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023).