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Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum by J. Crowfoot Payne 9780900416736
Booksplease Price: £77.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900416736Author J. Crowfoot PayneFormat HardbackPage Count 303Imprint < -
Discover Ancient Sumer Paul Collins 9781910807361
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.30Sumer was a region of the ancient world that today forms the southern part of Iraq. It is a vast, flat land of floodplains formed by the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. It was here that some of the... -
Rembrandt in Print A. Camp 9781910807330
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50The Ashmolean Museum holds a world-class collection of over 200 prints made by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606-1669). Widely hailed as the greatest painter of the Dutch Golden Age, Rembrandt was... -
Young Rembrandt by An Van Camp 9781910807323
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.98Young Rembrandt concentrates on the first ten years of the career of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). Born in Leiden, he trained there with Isaac van Swanenburg and in Amsterdam with Pieter Lastman... -
In Praise of Hands: Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara - Poems by Penny Boxall Clare Pollard 9781910807446
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £7.38This creative collaboration between artist Naoko Matsubara and poet Penny Boxall celebrates in words and colours the beauty and variety of the human hand. The series of dynamic woodcuts at... -
A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Arthur MacGregor 9780860547518
Booksplease Price: £65.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860547518Author Ellen BolickFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint < -
Tokyo: Art & Photography Lena Fritsch 9781910807392
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo. It spans 400 years, with highlights including Kano school paintings; the... -
Maiolica in Italy and Beyond: Papers of a symposium held at Oxford in celebration of Timothy Wilson's Catalogue of Maiolica in the Ashmolean Museum by J.V.G. Mallett
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £28.90This book is an edited record of the papers given at the two-day symposium 'Italian Maiolica and Europe' held in Oxford on 22 and 23 September 2017. It is, in effect, a celebration of his long... -
Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings by An Van Camp 9781910807590
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18"This is the very best of Antwerp and the best from here in Oxford." - The Oxford Times Weekend "This entertaining exhibition of the 16th- and 17th-century drawings from the Low Countries has energy... -
Dante: The Invention of Celebrity Gervase Rosser 9781910807491
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50Dante (the seventh centenary of whose death is being marked in 2021), the author of one of the greatest works of European literature, has also inspired a wealth of images which, themselves, continue... -
Around the World in 80 Pots: The story of humanity told through beautiful ceramics by Ashmolean Museum
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.80Religion. Humour. Trade. Sex. Folklore. Creativity. Pots can tell us more about the lives of the people who made and used them than any other artefacts.Bearing the imprint of their maker, ceramics... -
Catalogue of the Engraved Gems and Finger-Rings in the Ashmolean Museum. II. Roman by Martin Henig 9781841716770
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £23.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Ali Kazim: Suspended in Time by Mallica Kumbera Landrus
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.50In 2019 Ali Kazim, one of the most exciting contemporary artists working in Pakistan today, became the first South Asian artist-in-residence at the Ashmolean Museum. Drawing inspiration from the... -
A Catalogue of the ... Pictures ... in the Picture Gallery, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. With Additions by Bodleian Library 9780461184198
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461184198Author Bodleian LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint -
Murder at the Ashmolean Jim Eldridge 9780749023072
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.611895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole between his eyes, a pistol discarded close by. The death has officially been ruled as suicide by... -
Alan Caiger-Smith and the Legacy of the Aldermaston Pottery by Jane White
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.25Interviewing nearly 30 of the Aldermaston potters, many of whom have written some fascinating submissions about this incredible workshop. The book features a wonderful, previously unpublished,... -
Saints and Salvation: The Wilshere Collection Susan Walker 9781854442901
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05The Wilshere Collection offers a remarkable insight into one Englishman's enthusiasm for the early Christian church. A wealthy landowner travelling frequently to Italy, Charles Wilshere (1814-1906)... -
Mountains and Lowlands: Ancient Iran and Mesopotamia by Paul Collins 9781910807088
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.80Ancient Mesopotamia and Iran are usually treated separately or as part of a much broader 'Ancient Near East'. However, the developments that lie at the root of our own world - farming, cities,... -
A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections in the Asmolean Museum: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford by Arthur MacGregor 9780860548638
Booksplease Price: £67.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548638Author Arthur MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint
Ashmolean Museum - Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections 1683-1886 (Part I) by Arthur MacGregor 9781841712062
Booksplease Price: £81.72Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Volume V, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Part X, Ionia Philip Kinns 9780197267783
Booksplease Price: £79.10The catalogue is part of the series of volumes of the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum project, which under the auspices of the British Academy aims to publish major collections of Greek coins. Each volume...
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Great Britain Fascicule 24, Oxford Ashmolean Museum, Fascicule 4 by Hector Catling
Booksplease Price: £78.10This illustrated catalogue publishes the important collection of Greek Geometric and Orientalizing pottery in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. More than 200 vases and fragments are described and...
Maiolica and Faience: Acquisitions of European tin-glaze and related pottery for the Ashmolean Museum, 2017–25 Timothy Wilson 9781910807736
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £24.98The Ashmolean Museum catalogue Italian Maiolica and Europe (2017) included a range of works from Spain, France, the Netherlands, Germany, England, and Mexico, as well as Italy, to illustrate the rich...
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Volume V, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Part IX, Bosporus-Aeolis by Richard Ashton 9780197264164
Booksplease Price: £72.60This fully-illustrated catalogue publishes 1601 ancient Greek coins issued by cities stretching from the modern Crimea to the area of Aeolis on the west coast of modern Turkey. This is a most welcome...
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Volume V, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Part XI, Caria to Commagene (except Cyprus) by Richard Ashton 9780197265468
Booksplease Price: £93.10This fully-illustrated catalogue publishes 2021 pre-imperial ancient Greek coins from an area of Asia Minor covering Caria to Commagene but excluding Cyprus. Each coin is carefully photographed and...
Art of India and Beyond Andrew Topsfield 9781910807507
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05The Ashmolean is fortunate in having the finest collection of Indian art in Britain outside London, one which includes many works of great beauty and expressive power. For this we are indebted above...
Seeking Natural Knowledge in Later 17th Century England: Robert Plot, the Ashmolean Museum, and the Oxford Philosophical Society Anthony Turner 9780198950332
RRP: £121.00Booksplease Price: £112.10Anthony Turner offers a view of the social and cultural context of the collecting of natural history in late 17th century England, constructed around the biography of Robert Plot. Seeking Natural...
Ashmolean Museum - Manuscript Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections (Part II). The Vice-Chancellor's Consolidated Catalogue 1695: The Vice-Chancellor's Consolidated Catalogue 1695 by Arthur MacGregor 9781841719375
Booksplease Price: £71.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781841719375Author Arthur MacGregorFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint
Wine drinking in Oxford 1640-1850: A story revealed by tavern, inn and other bottles; with a catalogue of bottles and seals from the collection in the Ashmolean Museum by Fay Banks 9780860548553
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £25.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780860548553Author Fay BanksFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint
Alice's Oxford: People and Places that Inspired Wonderland Peter Hunt 9781851246298
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass are two of the most famous fantasies in world literature, and yet their roots are firmly in nineteenth century and the university city...
May Morris: The Essence and Soul of Beautiful Embroidery Lynn Hulse 9781910807699
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.68May Morris (1862-1938) was a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement and a key exponent of decorative needlework (or art embroidery). Following the critically acclaimed exhibition at the...
In Bloom: How Plants Changed Our World Stephen Harris 9781910807743
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Flowers and plants are a staple of British life. Nearly 40% of our population considers themselves to be gardeners, making this and associated activities a national pursuit. And yet, while we hold...
Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments by Paul Roberts 9780500025680
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.85A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to make their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world. 'What is worse than Nero?...
Techniques of Drawing: Historical Perspectives from Europe to Asia Ursula Weekes 9781910807682
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Originally published in 1999, and long out of print, this revised and updated version of Techniques of Drawing gives an overview of historical materials and drawing practices in Europe and Asia,...
Shirley: The Life of a Botanical Adventurer by Shirley Sherwood 9781911397892
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.81Shirley, The Life of a Botanical Adventurer is the remarkable story of Dr Shirley Sherwood, scientist, author, travel writer, gardener as well as mother and grandmother. Following the tragic death of...
Charles Robert Cockerell, Architect in Time: Reflections around Anachronistic Drawings by Anne Bordeleau 9780367739966
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Speed, acceleration and rapid change characterize our world, and as we design and construct buildings that are to last at least a few decades and sometimes even centuries, how can architecture...
Beyond Ophelia: The True Legacy of Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti Glenda Youde 9781916846777
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.22Better known as 'Lizzie Siddal', the model who posed for John Everett Millais's painting Ophelia, Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti is now finally recognised as a Pre-Raphaelite artist in her own right,...
William Burges's Great Bookcase and The Victorian Colour Revolution by Charlotte Ribeyrol
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.80Charlotte Ribeyrol presents a fascinating (book)case study exploring the story of an extraordinary object, William Burges's (1827-1881) Great Bookcase. No fewer than 13 major artists, including...
Early Celtic Art: From Its Origins to Its Aftermath Joel Gibbons 9780202361864
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89For many, perhaps most, the title Early Celtic Art summons up images of Early Christian stone crosses in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, or Cornwall; of Glendalough, lona or Tintagel; of the Ardagh Chalice...
Greek Ostraca in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Various Other Collections by John Gavin Tait 9780856980381
Booksplease Price: £39.78This work brings together conveniently in one volume the ostraca scattered among various libraries and museums: the Bodleian, the Ashmolean Museum, the Cambridge University Library and the Flinders...