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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... -
Postcards from Utopia: The Art of Political Propaganda Andrew Roberts 9781851243372
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Presidents, Prime Ministers and Secretary Generals of totalitarian states in the twentieth century have been highly conscious of the need to present a national image suited to the new political... -
Curious Creatures on our Shores by Chris Thorogood
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.64This veritable marine treasure trove of a book is richly illustrated by the author, with fifty of the most beautiful, easily encountered, and sometimes astonishing marine organisms found on British... -
Curious History of Weights & Measures, The by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.91How long is an ell? What is the largest size of champagne bottle? How do you measure the heat of a chilli pepper? Why is the depth of water measured in fathoms? And what is a cubit? The Curious... -
The Hungry Goat by Alan Mills
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The (very) hungry goat has a big appetite which gets him into all kinds of adventures. He'll eat anything, from pigs swill to frying pans and even barbed wire. As a result he grows fatter and fatter... -
Art of Advertising, The Julie Anne Lambert 9781851245383
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.28Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and exploited many formats, including calendars,... -
Merton College Library: An Illustrated History Julia C. Walworth 9781851245390
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94The Merton library is rightly known for its antiquity, its beautiful medieval and early modern architecture and fittings and for its remarkable and important collection of manuscripts and rare books,... -
Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing John Boardley 9781851244737
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.00How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we work out how to print in colour? Many of the standard features of printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and... -
Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters by Kathryn Sutherland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.75In their celebration of 'little matters' - the regular round of visiting, dining out, drinking tea, of reading and walking to the shops and sending to the post - Jane Austen's letters and novels have... -
The Making of The Wind in the Willows by Peter Hunt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The Wind in the Willows has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now held in the Bodleian Library) while he was on holiday... -
Dark Room by Garry Fabian Miller
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.96Garry Fabian Miller's Dark Room is a photography book unlike any other. At its heart is the artist's description of a life lived making pictures between the dark and the light, a deeply personal... -
Bodleianalia: Curious Facts about Britain's Oldest University Library by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Which is the smallest book in the Bodleian Library? Who complained when their secret pen name was revealed in the library's catalogue? How many miles of shelving are there in the Book Storage... -
Birds: An Anthology by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's 'full-hearted evensong of joy illimited', Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts 'dash round in circles' and Rachel Carson watches... -
A Splendour of Succulents & Cacti by Caroline Ball
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Succulents, especially cacti, are the current focus of serious ecological studies but also the darlings of designers and style influencers. Their endearing, characterful looks have given them the... -
A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds by Bill Oddie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'A murder of crows', 'a charm of goldfinches', 'an ostentation of peacocks': collective nouns for British birds have existed since at least the mid fifteenth century. They are thought to originate in... -
Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries Rebecca Abrams 9781851245024
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.34Representing four centuries of collecting and 1,000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges... -
A Sanskrit Treasury: A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library Camillo A. Formigatti 9781851245314
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.53This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Drawing on the...