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Splendours of Japan: Highlights from the Bodleian Library Bodleian Library Publishing 9781851245901
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93The 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: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.96Taking 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... -
A Catalogue of the ... Pictures ... in the Picture Gallery, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. With Additions by Bodleian Library 9780461184198
RRP: £11.95Booksplease Price: £9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461184198Author Bodleian LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint -
Jane Austen: Illustrated Quotations by The Bodleian Library
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'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... -
Revolution!: Sayings of Vladimir Lenin by The Bodleian Library
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'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: £8.00Booksplease Price: £7.14This 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... -
112 Gripes about the French by Bodleian Library
Booksplease Price: £3.00When 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... -
How to Be a Good Parent by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.97'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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.58Pizza, 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86This 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: £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,... -
The Rain Puddle by Adelaide Holl
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Who 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: £11.73Ever 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.91Many 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30Janet 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: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54Over 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48This 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... -
What is Round? by Blossom Budney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Many 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.31What 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80When 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92The 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39'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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.56Why 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: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54Spanning 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48In 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59We'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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44A 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.87Of 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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.60To 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.91Within 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86One 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30This 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: £6.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851240265Author Stanley GillamFormat PaperbackImprint -
Sarah Angelina Acland: First Lady of Colour Photography Giles Hudson 9781851243723
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.47Sarah 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: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.08The 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.67Clare 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: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.69Albert 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: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.53In 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.91One 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: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30This 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...