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The Slave Trade Debate: Contemporary Writings For and Against John Pinfold 9781851243167
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.99At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of... -
The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.06Oscar Wilde's children's stories explore timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice. Featuring princesses, ogres and talking animals, the... -
Can Onions Cure Ear-ache?: Medical Advice from 1769 by William Buchan
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.77What common condition can be treated with cow dung? How do crushed oystershells ease heartburn? Can eels cure deafness? And how do you stop a stubborn case of the hiccups? If someone was struck... -
It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories by Alexander Tulloch
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.65Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse can also trace their... -
Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture Theo Marten van Lint 9781851244409
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.06Set 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... -
Talking Maps Jerry Brotton 9781851245154
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.06Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people's lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary tales,... -
Making of Handel's Messiah, The by Andrew Gant
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $21.43The first performance of Handel's 'Messiah' in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit... -
Bound for Success: Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2009 Jeanette Koch 9781851243525
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.61This catalogue illustrates each entry in the prestigious bookbinding competition held by Designer Bookbinders, one of the foremost bookbinding societies in the world. The Designer Bookbinders... -
How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying by Shepherd Mead
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.77Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, came to live in England with his family in 1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow... -
Hawkers, Beggars and Quacks: Portraits from The Cries of London by Sean Shesgreen
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $55.46'Buy my Dish of great Eeles, Any Old Iron take money for, Twelve Pence a Peck Oysters, Buy my fat Chickens, Fair Lemons & Oranges' Marcellus Laroon's 'The Cryes of the City of London drawne... -
Tea, Coffee & Chocolate: How We Fell in Love with Caffeine by Melanie King
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $17.34Did you know that coffee was recommended as protection against the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century? Or that tea was believed to make men 'unfit to do their business' and blamed for women... -
Inventing Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot in the Bodleian Library by Geoffrey Batchen
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $62.11William Henry Fox Talbot is celebrated today as one of the English inventors of photography. He made early photographic experiments in the 1830s, released the details of his photogenic drawing... -
Weddings: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.77To 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... -
Roy Strong: Self-Portrait as a Young Man Sir Roy Strong 9781851242825
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $36.31For nearly half a century, Sir Roy Strong has enjoyed a high public profile in the arts world in Britain. Yet remarkably little is known about his life before the Swinging Sixties when he burst upon... -
Cultural Revolution in Berlin: Jews in the Age of Enlightenment Shmuel Feiner (Bar-Ilan University) 9781851242917
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.08The process of secularization, which is one of the sources of present-day democracy, has its radical origins in eighteenth-century Europe. Criticism of religious norms and discipline, institutions... -
Roots to Seeds: 400 Years of Oxford Botany by Stephen A. Harris
Booksplease Price: $108.81Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification,... -
Gathering of Leaves, A: Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2022 by Stuart and Louise Brockman
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.64Plants and gardens play a central role in life on Earth. They have provided food, clothing, shelter, medicines, employment, leisure and enjoyment throughout history. Both also have many symbolic uses... -
The Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow: The Life and Times of a Slave Trade Captain John Pinfold 9781851243211
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $28.74Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its 'human cargo'. This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written... -
Lost Maps of the Caliphs Yossef Rapoport 9781851244911
RRP: $73.13Booksplease Price: $64.51About a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author guided the reader on a journey from the outermost... -
Rachel Owen: Illustrations for Dante's 'Inferno' by David Bowe
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.94Rachel Owen's hauntingly beautiful illustrations for Dante's Inferno take a radically new approach to representing the world of Dante's famous poem. The images combine the artist's deep cultural and... -
Medieval Manuscripts from the Collection of T.R. Buchanan in the Bodleian Library, Oxford by Peter Kidd 9781851240593
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.69This catalogue describes 24 manuscripts from the collection of Thomas Ryburn Buchanan presented to the Bodleian Library in 1939 and 1941, including illuminated manuscripts from before the... -
Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden 1501-1900 Stephen A. Harris (Druce Curator, Oxford University Herbaria) 9781851243433
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $53.55This beautifully illustrated book examines the changing role of the garden in Britain from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. Beginning in a world where... -
Bodleian Library Souvenir Guide by Geoffrey Tyack 9781851242740
Booksplease Price: $23.63This richly illustrated guide to the historical buildings of the Bodleian Library not only makes an attractive keepsake but is also packed with fascinating architectural details about one of the... -
Julia Margaret Cameron: A Poetry of Photography by Nichole J. Fazio 9781851245840
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $79.74Renowned photographer Julia Margaret Cameron is famous for her evocative portraits of eminent Victorians, including John Herschel, Alfred Tennyson, Henry Taylor, George Frederic Watts, Ellen Terry... -
A Library Miscellany by Claire Cock-Starkey 9781851244720
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.75What can be found in the Vatican's Secret Archive? How many books did Charles Darwin's library aboard the Beagle hold? Which library is home to a colony of bats? Bursting with potted histories,... -
The Kennicott Bible by Katrin Kogman-Appel 9781851246007
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $79.74The Kennicott Bible is among the most celebrated Hebrew Bibles that survive from the Middle Ages. Originating from La Corun a in northern Spain, it features lavish carpet pages, gold leaf silhouettes... -
How to Be a Good Husband by 9781851243761
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.73The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with... -
Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942 by 9781851243952
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $9.73Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to re-capture the Philippines and defeat Japan. They encountered a country full of... -
How to Woo, When, and to Whom by W. H. Collingridge 9781851243457
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $13.24All you need is love? Not according to this essential guide to finding, wooing, and securing a suitable partner. Originally published in 1855, this brisk, no-nonsense handbook still has much to teach... -
Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell by Jerry Brotton 9781851245239
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $19.66From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from... -
How to Be a Good Parent by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $11.64'To keep children clean is something that should never be attempted. It cannot be done.' 'The mere provision of the vegetable is not sufficient; it must be actually eaten.' 'If there is room... -
How We Fell in Love with Italian Food Diego Zancani 9781851245123
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $45.98Pizza, pasta, pesto and olive oil: today, it's hard to imagine any supermarket without these items. But how did these foods - and many more Italian ingredients - become so widespread and popular? ... -
The Princess who Hid in a Tree: An Anglo-Saxon Story by Jackie Holderness
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.18This story is about a brave and kind Anglo-Saxon princess called Frideswide who lived in Oxford a long time ago and just happened to be brilliant at climbing very tall trees. Her talent came in... -
Fantasy Travel: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.77This series celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which,... -
The Rain Puddle by Adelaide Holl
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.18Who has fallen into the rain puddle? Is it plump hen, turkey gobbler, curly sheep or beautiful fat pig? When all the animals peer into the puddle at the same time, they see the entire farmyard... -
The Book Lovers' Miscellany by Claire Cock-Starkey
Booksplease Price: $23.21Ever wondered how ink is made? Or what is the bestselling book of all time? Or which are the oldest known books in the world? Highbrow to lowbrow, all aspects of the book are celebrated and... -
Why North is Up: Map Conventions and Where They Came From by Mick Ashworth
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.64Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them... -
Through the Lens of Janet Stone: Portraits, 1953-1979 Ian Archie Beck 9781851242597
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.69Janet Stone's photograph albums feature informal portraits from the mid-twentieth century of many of the leading cultural figures and personalities of the day. The wife of the distinguished engraver... -
Oxford Freemasons: A Social History of Apollo University Lodge Joe Mordaunt Crook 9781851244676
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.50Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo - the Masonic lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as... -
Jane Austen: Writer in the World Kathryn Sutherland 9781851244638
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $53.59This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music...