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What is Round? by Blossom Budney
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.18Many things in the natural world are round - the moon, the sun, a nest, a bubble. And so are many delicious things to eat - a ball of ice-cream, a doughnut, a pie. And so too are more decorative... -
Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $18.15What makes a perfect husband? In this tongue-in-cheek guide, illustrated by Heath Robinson's inimitable cartoons and contraptions, there are many charmingly old-fashioned tips for how to succeed in... -
A Shakespearean Botanical by Margaret Willes
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.65When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from... -
Mapping Shakespeare's World Peter Whitfield 9781851242573
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.69The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London,... -
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Collector's Edition) by Thomas Gray
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $27.69'The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day ...' Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' has been loved and admired throughout the centuries. First circulated to a select group of... -
From Downing Street to the Trenches: First-hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916 Mike Webb 9781851243938
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $18.64Why did Asquith take Britain to war in 1914? What did educated young men believe their role should be? What was it like to fly over the Somme battlefield? How could a trench on the front line be 'the... -
Islamic Maps Yossef Rapoport 9781851244928
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.50Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely... -
New Bodleian - Making the Weston Library the Bodleian Library 9781851243747
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $53.59In 1934 Sir Giles Gilbert Scott began work on designs for a substantial new library building opposite the Old Bodleian Library site in Broad Street, Oxford in order to provide much-needed space for... -
A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals by Samuel Fanous
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.75We're all familiar with 'a flock of sheep' but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources, from fifteenth-century hunting terms to more... -
Postcards of Lost Royals Andrew Roberts 9781851243327
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.46A century ago, hereditary rulers governed the great world powers. The royal houses of Europe, Africa, and Asia once ruled continents and the dominions beyond the seas. Today, just ten monarchs still... -
The Original Laws of Cricket Mike Atherton 9781851243129
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.76Of all the rules governing sport, the laws of cricket are among the oldest. The first written rules of 1744 survive uniquely on the border of a piece of linen at the MCC Museum of Cricket. They were... -
Women & Hats: Vintage People of Photo Postcards by Philip Treacy
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... -
Portraits of Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.78Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance... -
There was an Old Lady by Abner Graboff
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.18One day an old lady swallows a fly and the only way she can get rid of it is to swallow a wriggling, tickling spider... For over a century this subversive rhyme has delighted children and parents... -
A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts Acquired by the Bodleian Library Since 1916 by Barbara Crostini Lappin 9781851240715
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.69This illustrated catalogue presents detailed descriptions of nineteen Greek manuscripts acquired individually by the Library, during the twentieth century, and not previously described in any... -
Radcliffe Camera Stanley Gillam 9781851240265
Booksplease Price: $11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851240265Author Stanley GillamFormat PaperbackImprint Bodleian LibraryPublisher Bodleian Library -
Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography Giles Hudson 9781851243723
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $78.92Sarah Angelina Acland (1849-1930) is one of the most important photographers of the late Victorian and early Edwardian periods. Daughter of the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, she was... -
Handwritten: Remarkable People on the Page by Lesley Smith 9781851245956
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.43The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents... -
Clare Leighton's Rural Life by Clare Leighton 9781851246120
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.11Clare Leighton was one of the most prolific and highly regarded wood engravers of her time, leaving behind a body of work that reflected her rural life in Britain and North America. During the... -
Einstein in Oxford Andrew Robinson 9781851246380
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.28Albert Einstein visited Oxford in 1931, to receive an honorary degree and to lecture on relativity and the Universe. While lecturing, he naturally chalked equations and diagrams on several... -
Ferdinand Bauer's Remarkable Birds Jonathan Elphick 9781851246250
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $86.83In 1786, the renowned Austrian natural history artist Ferdinand Bauer travelled to Italy and the Levant with his employer John Sibthorp, Oxford Professor of Botany. The exquisite watercolours he... -
William Blake's Songs of Innocence Professor Mark Crosby 9781851246427
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.64One of the most important books of illustrated poetry in English literature, William Blake’s Songs of Innocence was meticulously relief-etched, printed and coloured in 1789. A unique work of... -
Polonica: From the Bodleian's Pre-1920 Catalogue by 9781851240296
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.69This title includes books from the collection of J. A. Lukaszwicz (1799-1873), and other titles appearing under the label "Libri Polonici" n the Bodleian's pre-1920 holdings, totalling about 1600... -
Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942 by 9781851240852
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $9.73In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the 'British, their country, and their ways'. The guide was intended to... -
Annals of the Bodleian Library by William Dunn Macray 9781904799634
RRP: $31.20Booksplease Price: $30.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904799634Author William Dunn MacrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Tiger of the... -
Annals of the Bodleian Library by Wlliam Dunn Macray 9781904799641
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904799641Author Wlliam Dunn MacrayFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Tiger of the... -
Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum: A Brief History Stephen A. Harris (Druce Curator, Oxford University Herbaria) 9781851244652
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.14Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in Britain and has occupied its site in central Oxford since 1621. Conceived as a place to grow medicinal plants, born in the turmoil of... -
Jane Austen in 41 Objects Kathryn Sutherland 9781851246267
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $40.38More than 200 years after Jane Austen's death at the age of just forty-one, we are still looking for clues about this extraordinary writer's life. What might we learn if we take a glimpse inside the... -
A Catalogue of the Books Relating to British Topography, and Saxon and Northern Literature: Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in the Year MDCCXCIX by Richard Gough, Esq. F.S.A. by Bodleian Library 9781108057318
Booksplease Price: $88.94The leading antiquary of his day, Richard Gough (1735-1809) served as director of the Society of Antiquities for over twenty-five years. The only son of a wealthy family, Gough benefited from being... -
Christina of Markyate Samuel Fanous (Bodleian Library, Oxford, UK) 9780415308595
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.82Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser present a vivid interdisciplinary study devoted to the life, work and extant vita of Christina of Markyate, which draws on research from a wide range of disciplines... -
Pocket Magna Carta: 1217 Text and Translation by Bodleian Library 9781851244522
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $11.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Treasures of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Jacopo Gnisci 9780995494657
Booksplease Price: $57.58The essays in this lavishly illustrated volume shed light on Ethiopia and Eritrea's fascinating past by looking at some of the most remarkable Ethiopic manuscripts kept at the Bodleian Library of... -
Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library by Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare 9781241077617
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $29.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241077617Author Frederick Cornwallis ConybeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Primary... -
Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 by Judith Tschann 9780197224175
Booksplease Price: $122.17The late thirteenth-century manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library Digby 86, contains a personal anthology of nearly 100 texts in French, English and Latin, including secular literature, devotional... -
C.S. Lewis's Oxford by Simon Horobin 9781851245642
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.46The fantastical fictional land of Narnia, famously reached via a magical wardrobe, has many connections to the world in which its creator C.S. Lewis lived. The influence of Oxford can be seen not... -
Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302) by Susanna Fein
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $59.07Audelay's idiosyncratic devotional tastes, interesting personal life history, and declared political affiliations-loyalty to king, upholder of estates, anxiety over heresy-make him worthy of careful... -
Catalogue of Turkish Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library by G^D"unay Kut 9780199513512
Booksplease Price: $198.37In 1930 the Clarendon Press published a Catalogue of the Persian, Turkish, Hindustani, and Pushtu MSS in the Bodleian Library. Part 2 of this catalogue included all Turkish MSS acquired before 1900,... -
Catalogue Of The Hebrew Manuscripts In The Bodleian Library And In The College Libraries Of Oxford by Adolf Neubauer 9781498122368
RRP: $97.40Booksplease Price: $84.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498122368Author Adolf NeubauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
The Bodleian Library: Fascicle I - MSS Additional - Digby by Ann Eljenholm Nichols 9781872501154
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $89.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781872501154Author Ann Eljenholm NicholsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Harvey Miller... -
Greek Ostraca in the Bodleian Library at Oxford and Various Other Collections by John Gavin Tait 9780856980381
Booksplease Price: $76.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856980381Author John Gavin TaitFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Egypt Exploration...