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Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture Theo Marten van Lint 9781851244393
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.65Set 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.17Marley'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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Herbs 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: £5.00Booksplease Price: £1.87Fountain-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... -
How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining, 1920 by J. Rey
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.60First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dining, where the basic function of ingesting nourishment was elevated to a high social art, attended by... -
Illustrating Empire: A Visual History of British Imperialism Ashley Jackson (Professor of Imperial and Military History, King's College London) 9781851243341
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to promote, record, and celebrate its development. The narrative is told through more than 200 striking... -
New York in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.67'Make your mark in New York and you are a made man' wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more... -
Vintage Advertising: An A to Z by Julie Anne Lambert
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.99How did the advertisers of the past sell magnetic corsets, carbolic smoke balls or even the first televisions? Which celebrities endorsed products? How did innovations in printing techniques and... -
Rare & Wonderful: Treasures from Oxford University Museum of Natural History Kate Diston 9781851244843
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30Since its foundation in 1860, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's world-renowned collections have become a key centre for scientific study and its much-loved building an important icon... -
Veronica by Roger Duvoisin
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.11Veronica the hippopotamus lives with her large family on the cool muddy river bank, swimming in its clear waters. But she is not happy. She dreams of becoming a conspicuous hippopotamus, even... -
Titanic Calling: Wireless Communications during the Great Disaster by Michael Hughes
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.94Published to mark the centenary of the sinking, this book tells the story of the Titanic from a new angle: the role of wireless in the disaster. Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian... -
Paris in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.67Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the 'most extraordinary place in the world', for Hazlitt, 'a... -
Chicago in Quotations by Stuart Shea
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.67'I have struck a city- a real city - and they call it Chicago ... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages,' so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From... -
The Bay Psalm Book: A Facsimile Diarmaid MacCulloch 9781851244140
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62'The Bay Psalm Book' was the first book to be printed in North America, twenty years after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts. Now extremely rare - only eleven copies survive - it is... -
Staging History: 1780-1840 by Michael Burden
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of... -
Designing English: Early Literature on the Page Daniel Wakelin 9781851244751
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange... -
Dr Radcliffe's Library: The Story of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford Stephen Hebron 9781851244294
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30The Radcliffe Camera is one of the most celebrated buildings in Oxford. Instantly recognizable, its great dome rises amid the Gothic spires of the University. Through early maps, plans and drawings,... -
Heath Robinson: How to Make a Garden Grow by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Ever wondered how to make a garden attractive in December? Or what to do with that corner by the dustbin? Answers to these questions can be found in this compact and charming book of tips for the... -
An Englishwoman in California: The Letters of Catherine Hubback 1871-76 Zoe Klippert 9781851243440
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback was fifty-two years old when she left England for America. She travelled to California on the Transcontinental Railroad and settled in... -
Postcards from the Trenches: Images from the First World War by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44The First World War was unique in being fought largely in trenches. Men ate, slept, fought, played, sang, prayed, and died in the trenches. This book brings together a collection of postcards which... -
Scholars, Poets and Radicals: Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections Rita Ricketts 9781851244256
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a... -
The Selden Map of China: A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty Hongping Annie Nie 9781851245246
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian... -
N is for Nursery by Blossom Budney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86A is for all of us - everyone, Playing, learning, having fun. This beautifully illustrated alphabet book is perfect for children starting at nursery for the first time. Bright, animated pictures... -
Secret History of English Spas, The by Melanie King
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.55English spas have a long and steamy history, from the thermal baths of Aquae Sulis in Bath to the stews of Southwark, the elegant pump rooms of Cheltenham and Buxton to the Victorian mania for... -
African Medical History: A Guide to Personal Papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford by Alistair G. Tough 9781851240517
Booksplease Price: £5.24A guide to personal papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford.Book InformationISBN 9781851240517Author Alistair G. ToughFormat PaperbackImprint -
Jewish Languages and Book Culture Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 9781851246328
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £43.73From Cairo Genizah to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters offers us an extraordinary insight into the linguistic... -
Dickens: The Funny Bits Nick Hornby 9781851246434
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.69With a foreword by bestselling author Nick Hornby, this brilliant anthology of the funniest extracts from Dickens’ novels features his famous comic characters, including the Artful Dodger, Mr... -
Mozart: A Bicentennial Loan Exhibition by 9781851240234
RRP: £6.50Booksplease Price: £6.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851240234Format PaperbackImprint Bodleian LibraryPublisher Bodleian Library -
Ten-Minute Book Club: Deep Dives into Short Reads Kirsten E. Shepherd 9781851246557
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Are you looking to join a book club, but short on time to read every book? This rich and diverse selection of unforgettable writing is carefully curated for a ten-minute hit of literary wonder. ... -
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How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining, 1920 by J. Rey 9781851240869 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £2.19First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dining, where the basic function of ingesting nourishment was elevated to a high social art, attended by... -
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German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 by Bodleian Library the 9781851243563 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.38I 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... -
Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters: The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century Anna Marie Roos 9781851244898
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62Martin 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.67'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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48By 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.67'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: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.99'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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Close 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98The 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98The 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: £8.00Booksplease Price: £7.64Oxford 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...