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Temple of Science The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History
ISBN: HB: 9781851245567, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
192 pp., 25x21 cm, 100 colour illus.
Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with...
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£35,00
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Making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Invention of Wonderland
ISBN: PB: 9781851245321, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2020
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 67 colour illus.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" are two of the most famous, translated, and quoted books in the world. But how did a casual tale told by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), an eccentric Oxford mathematician, to Ali...
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£15,00
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Novel Houses Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings
ISBN: HB: 9781851244805, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour illus.
"Novel Houses" visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer...
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£25,00
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Oxford Botanic Garden A Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781851245208, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2019
80 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
Oxford Botanic Garden has occupied its central Oxford site next to the river Cherwell continuously since its foundation in 1621 and is the UK's oldest botanic garden. The birthplace of botanical science in the UK, it has been a leading centre for res...
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£8,00
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Selden Map of China A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty
ISBN: HB: 9781851245246, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2019
96 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 40 colour illus.
Dating 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 landmass but outward to the sea. Discovered in the s...
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£20,00
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Princess who Hid in a Tree An Anglo-Saxon Story
ISBN: HB: 9781851245185, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2019
40 pp., 24.7x20 cm, fully illustrated
This 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 useful one day when a wicked king tried to kidnap her. H...
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£12,99
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Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
ISBN: PB: 9781851244867, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2018
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of "Frankenstein's" creation during stormy days and nights at Byron's Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva has become literary legend. In this book, Daisy Hay returns to the objects and manuscripts of t...
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£12,99
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Ada Lovelace The Making of a Computer Scientist
ISBN: HB: 9781851244881, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2018
128 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 65 illus.
Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron and his highly educated wife, Anne Isabella, is sometimes called the world's first computer programmer and has become an icon for women in technology. But how did a young wom...
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£20,00
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Making of Wind in the Willows
ISBN: PB: 9781851244799, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2018
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 60 colour illus.
"The Wind in the Willows" has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now held in the Bodleian Library) while he was on holiday. But the book developed into something much more s...
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£12,99
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Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum A Brief History
ISBN: PB: 9781851244652, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2017
144 pp., 22x17.3 cm, 66 colour illus.
Oxford 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 civil war and nurtured during the restoration of the...
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£14,99
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