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Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture Theo Marten van Lint 9781851244393
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $67.92Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BCE under King Tigranes the Great, Armenia was later... -
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9781851246175
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.31Marley's ghost, Bob Cratchit's slide down icy Cornhill, Mr and Mrs Fezziwig's dance, and of course Ebenezer Scrooge himself, are all exquisitely illustrated in this luxury collector's edition of... -
Nature's Apothecary Margaret Willes 9781851246694
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.92Herbs have been used for centuries to cure all manner of ailments. In the Middle Ages, before the advent of affordable healthcare, monastery gardens were used to cultivate plants to treat both the... -
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The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!: Advertisements from the Great War by Amanda-Jane Doran 9781851243990 [USED COPY]
RRP: $6.45Booksplease Price: $2.41Fountain-Pens - The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water? When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies... -
Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters: The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century Anna Marie Roos 9781851244898
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.18Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and molluscs. Disappointed with the work of... -
Penguin's Way by Johanna Johnston
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.47'All over the snow plain the penguins begin to sing. The eggs are beginning to arrive.' This is the story of the emperor penguins that live far away on the edge of a secret sea. During summer they... -
London: Prints & Drawings before 1800 Bernard Nurse 9781851244126
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.45By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britain's expanding empire. Before the age of photography, the most widely used... -
Whale's Way by Johanna Johnston
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.47'That is the way of the largest creature on earth. That is the whale's way.' The humpback whales journey through polar seas, diving, spouting and leaping. As winter comes they swim through... -
Making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Invention of Wonderland, The by Peter Hunt
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $14.18'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking-Glass' are two of the most famous, translated and quoted books in the world. But how did a casual tale told by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis... -
Great Literary Friendships by Janet Phillips
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.56Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns' poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's... -
The Ormesby Psalter: Patrons and Artists in Medieval East Anglia Frederica C.E. Law-Turner 9781851243105
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.80The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. Its pages boast a wealth of... -
Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights Edmund Dulac 9781851245017
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.80The much-loved tales from 'The Thousand and One Nights' first appeared in English translation in the early nineteenth century. The popularity of these ancient and beguiling tales set against the... -
Oxford Botanic Garden: A Guide Simon Hiscock 9781851245208
RRP: $10.32Booksplease Price: $9.86Oxford Botanic Garden has occupied its central Oxford site next to the river Cherwell continuously since its foundation in 1621 and is the UK's oldest botanic garden. The birthplace of botanical... -
Aesop's Fables by Agnes Miller Parker
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.97For 25 centuries, the animal stories which go by the name of Aesop's Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. They are still as fresh and poignant today as they... -
Great Tales Never End, The: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien by Richard Ovenden
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.63Over more than four decades J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, published some twenty-four volumes of his father's work, much more than his father had succeeded in... -
That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch' by David Crystal
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.65The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. Here we have Victorian high and low... -
Brief History of the Bodleian Library, A Mary Clapinson 9781851245444
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.57How did a library founded over 400 years ago grow to become the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen million items? From its foundation by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 to... -
Postcards of Political Icons: Leaders of the Twentieth Century Andrew Roberts 9781851243273
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89Opening in the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II and continuing to the eve of the second Gulf War, Postcards of Political Icons tells the story of the twentieth century through images of its most... -
Bill of Rights: The Origin of Britain's Democracy by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.20In 2017, the Government's attempt to trigger Article 50 and so leave the European Union resulted in a judgement by the Supreme Court, which stated that the Government was unentitled to do so without... -
Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories by David Pearson
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $40.84Every individual book has a history which can help us to understand what difference it may have made in the world. Within these pages you will find books damaged by bullets or graffiti, recovered... -
Botany of Gin, The by Chris Thorogood
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.67From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It gained... -
Town: Prints and Drawings of Britain Before 1800 Bernard Nurse 9781851245178
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.72Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester... -
Petrograd, 1917: Witnesses to the Russian Revolution by John Pinfold
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.57'It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!' The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last... -
The March Wind by Inez Rice
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.01One windy day a little boy happens upon a large black hat, lying in the street. When he tries it on, he becomes a whole host of different characters he's always wanted to be: a soldier marching... -
Babel: Adventures in Translation Dennis Duncan (Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University of Cambridge) 9781851245093
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.61This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story... -
Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables, A: Illustrations from an eighteenth-century botanical treasury by Caroline Ball
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $16.67Close-up photos of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce ... these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed... -
Now and Then: England 1970-2015 Daniel Meadows 9781851245338
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.21Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. His photographs and audio recordings, made over forty-five years, capture the life of England's 'great ordinary'. Challenging... -
Korean Treasures: Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University Minh Chung (Head of the Bodleian Chinese Studies Library and Korean Collections, University of Oxford) 9781851242870
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $40.04Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the... -
Readers: Vintage People of Photo Postcards by David Lodge
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.09To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000... -
The Tradescants' Orchard: The Mystery of a Seventeenth-Century Painted Fruit Book by Barrie Junniper
Booksplease Price: $74.61In the early seventeenth century there was eager interest, among the leisured classes, in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, not least for the kitchen gardens and orchards of England's grand... -
Secrets in a Dead Fish: The Spying Game in the First World War by Melanie King
RRP: $6.45Booksplease Price: $6.37How did German intelligence agents in the First World War use dead fish to pass on vital information to their operatives? What did an advertisement for a dog in The Times have to do with the movement... -
Reynard the Fox by Anne Louise Avery
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $18.63Reynard - a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders - is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion,... -
German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 by Bodleian Library the
RRP: $9.02Booksplease Price: $8.26I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and if necessary to carry it. - Adolf Hitler, 16 July 1940. Immediately after the fall of France in June 1940, Hitler ordered his... -
Hyphens & Hashtags*: *The Stories behind the symbols on our keyboard by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.93The punctuation marks, mathematical symbols and glyphs which haunt the edges of our keyboards have evolved over many hundreds of years. They shape our understanding of texts, calculations and online... -
Chaucer Here and Now by Marion Turner 9781851246151
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.71The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection of essays you will find wartime Chaucer, postcolonial Chaucer,... -
Talking about Detective Fiction P. D. James 9781851243099
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the... -
A Date with Language: Fascinating Facts, Events and Stories for Every Day of the Year by David Crystal 9781851246113
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.80In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from literary and linguistic writers, poets and global... -
Wisdom from the Ancients by Emilie Savage-Smith 9781851246144
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.65Words of wisdom and advice for leading a good life have long been part of society, handed down from one generation to the next. Plenty of these wise observations originated from the philosophers of... -
Twelfth Night: Illustrated by Eric Ravilious by William Shakespeare 9781851246243
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $24.86Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of Eric Ravilious’s finest illustrated works, first published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1932 in a limited... -
Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries Stephen Hebron 9781851242665
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.99What sets Mary Shelley's Frankenstein apart from so many other famous works of fiction? What special combination of creativity and vision made possible the drafting of Magna Carta? When describing...