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Splendours of Japan: Highlights from the Bodleian Library Bodleian Library Publishing 9781851245901
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $55.38The Bodleian Library houses one of the oldest institutional collections of Japanese rare books and manuscripts in Europe, dating back to the first half of the seventeenth century. Leading scholars... -
Wonderful Things from 400 Years of Collecting: The Bodleian Library 1602-2002 Bodleian Library 9781851240777
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $34.78Taking its title from Howard Carter's famous description of his first glimpse of the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, this book offers a timeless portrait of highlights representing the range... -
How to be a Good Motorist by Bodleian Library the
RRP: $6.44Booksplease Price: $6.28How should a motorist converse with the police? Should you switch off your headlights when another car approaches? What parts of the engine can you fix with a sheet of emery paper, insulating tape... -
A Catalogue of the ... Pictures ... in the Picture Gallery, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. With Additions by Bodleian Library 9780461184198
RRP: $15.42Booksplease Price: $12.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461184198Author Bodleian LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher... -
Jane Austen: Illustrated Quotations by The Bodleian Library
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.08'Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation and vice, and I begin to find already my Morals corrupted.' Much loved for the romantic plot lines of her novels and witty observations on... -
112 Gripes about the French by Bodleian Library
Booksplease Price: $3.87When American troops arrived in Paris to help maintain order at the end of the Second World War they were, at first, received by the local population with a sense of euphoria. However, the French... -
Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin by The Bodleian Library
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.08'Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.' Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and founder of the USSR, was profoundly aware of the power of... -
Bodleian Library Souvenir Guide by Geoffrey Tyack
RRP: $10.32Booksplease Price: $9.21This 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... -
How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining, 1920 by J. Rey
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.09First 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: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.59Illustrating 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: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.31'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: $19.35Booksplease Price: $15.47How 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.61Since 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: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.04Veronica 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.04Published 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: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.31Over 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: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.31'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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.18'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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.57In 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: $38.70Booksplease Price: $35.45Early 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.87The 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.08Ever 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.18A 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: $11.60Booksplease Price: $10.89The 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: $38.70Booksplease Price: $34.80Exploring 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: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.61Dating 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01A 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $26.51English 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: $6.76A guide to personal papers in Rhodes House Library, Oxford.Book InformationISBN 9781851240517Author Alistair G. ToughFormat PaperbackImprint Bodleian LibraryPublisher Bodleian Library -
Jewish Languages and Book Culture Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 9781851246328
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $56.41From 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: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.95With 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: $8.39Booksplease Price: $8.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851240234Format PaperbackImprint Bodleian LibraryPublisher Bodleian Library -
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How to Dine in Style: The Art of Entertaining, 1920 by J. Rey 9781851240869 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.90Booksplease Price: $2.83First 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: $9.02Booksplease Price: $3.07I 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... -
How to Be a Good Parent by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: $7.73Booksplease Price: $7.70'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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.42Pizza, 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01This 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: $12.90Booksplease Price: $11.09This 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.01Who 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: $15.57Ever 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...