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The University of Oxford: A Brief History by Laurence Brockliss
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The University of Oxford is the third oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. How did such an ancient institution flourish through the ages? This... -
Heritage Apples by Caroline Ball
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.55What would a greengrocer say if you were to ask for half a dozen Grenadiers and a couple of Catsheads? In the course of the past century we have lost much of our rich heritage of orchard fruits, but... -
Magna Carta: Origins and Legacy Nicholas Vincent (Professor of Medieval History, University of Anglia) 9781851243631
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.42Magna Carta is the most famous document in English history. And yet its survival is purely accidental. King John, who negotiated the document with his rebellious barons, had no intention of honouring... -
What Can Cats Do? by Abner Graboff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86There are many things cats can do which children can't, such as lap up milk and use their tongues as combs. There are also a number of things that cats can't do, like sing children to sleep, or get... -
The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Daisy Hay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80'Invention ... does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos' - Mary Shelley In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein's creation during stormy days and... -
Writing the Thames Christina Hardyment 9781851244508
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Thames aficionado Robert Gibbings once wrote that 'the quiet of an age-old river is like the slow turning of the pages of a well-loved book'. Writing the Thames tells a much-loved river's story... -
The Life of Anthony Wood in His Own Words Nicolas K. Kiessling (Professor Emeritus of the Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman, WA) 9781851243082
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.04Anthony Wood's account of his life is one of the few written by university persons in the seventeenth century. It is full of information about famous people, including Christopher Wren, John Locke,... -
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family Stephen Hebron 9781851243396
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Few families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as the Godwins and the Shelleys. Yet this reputation was shaped in a subtle... -
Heath Robinson's Home Front: How to Make Do and Mend in Style by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.31How does one play bridge in a gas mask? Or enjoy motoring without consuming petrol? Or deal with a nationwide shortage of pea-sticks? For this compact little book Heath Robinson joined forces with... -
Menswear: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.60This 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,... -
An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections Brian Aldiss 9781851243730
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Although Brian Aldiss cannot be pigeon-holed as a science fiction writer there is no doubt that he is a master of the art of conceiving other worlds. His fertile imagination has created intriguing... -
Literary Cats by Judith Robinson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39'Everything you ever wanted to know about cats in books. A wonderful idea, beautifully executed.' - Viv Groskop Cats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and... -
Postcards from the Russian Revolution by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.87The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events of the 20th century. It has been studied from many angles, but never before from the visual perspective of postcards, a... -
Domestic Herbal, The: Plants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century by Margaret Willes
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92In the seventeenth century, even the most elaborate and fashionable gardens had areas set aside for growing herbs, fruit, vegetables and flowers for domestic use, while those of more modest... -
Thinking 3D: Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present Daryl Green 9781851245253
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54During the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As reliable illustrations of three-dimensional subjects... -
North Sea Crossings: The Literary Heritage of Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1066 to 1688 Sjoerd Levelt 9781851245543
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.10This richly illustrated book tells the story of cultural exchange between the people of the Low Countries and England in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, and reveals how Anglo-Dutch... -
Just the Job: How Trades got their Names by Alexander Tulloch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80What did a gongfarmer do? How is a chaperone connected to a bird of prey? What is the etymology behind cloud architect? And is there a link between secretaries and secrets? The story behind these... -
The Original Rules of Tennis Tim Henman 9781851243181
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.87While Jeu de paume has been played in France for hundreds of years and was associated with the French and English medieval and renaissance courts, the modern game of tennis dates from 1874, when the... -
Dole Queues and Demons: British Election Posters from the Conservative Party Archive Stuart Ball (Reader in Modern History, University of Leicester) 9781851243532
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29A unique blend of graphic design, bold art or photography and cunning psychology, election posters are an unsung art form, stretching back to the dawn of the twentieth century. Exploiting the... -
The Romance of the Middle Ages Nicholas Perkins (Fellow of St Hugh's College and Lecturer in Medieval English, University of Oxford) 9781851242955
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great's global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages, and still resonate today. This... -
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce 9781851245079
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country In 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the... -
Gifts and Books by Nicholas Perkins 9781851246106
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.96We all know about giving and receiving gifts: they can be touching or puzzling, either strengthening bonds of friendship or becoming a burden. Gifts are an integral part of human societies and this... -
Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature by Dirk Van Hulle 9781851246182
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.76Imagine looking over the shoulder of your favourite author and witnessing the moment they begin writing the opening chapter of their best-loved novel. What you might see is that the author has to... -
Better Bed Manners: A Humorous 1930s Guide to Bedroom Etiquette for Husbands and Wives by Anne Balliol 9781851246199
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Ever needed tips on how to sleep next to a snoring spouse? How to convalesce in style? Or the etiquette of staying in a haunted house? This humorous book was originally published in the 1930s as an... -
The Original Rules of Rugby by Martin Johnson 9781851243716
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.13The origins of the game of rugby and the codification of the rules which defined the game have been glorified in numerous legends, some of which are little more than sporting hagiography. ... -
Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 by 9781851243358
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.67In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this... -
Annals of the Bodleian Library by William Dunn Macray 9781904799634
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Apologies 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.45Apologies 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92Oxford 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.87More 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: £47.58The 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: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Samuel 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
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Treasures of Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Jacopo Gnisci 9780995494657
Booksplease Price: £29.53The 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241077617Author Frederick Cornwallis ConybeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Primary... -
C.S. Lewis's Oxford by Simon Horobin 9781851245642
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.34The 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... -
Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 by Judith Tschann 9780197224175
Booksplease Price: £62.65The 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... -
Poems and Carols (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Douce 302) by Susanna Fein
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.30Audelay'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: £101.53In 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: £49.95Booksplease Price: £44.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498122368Author Adolf NeubauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint Literary Licensing,...