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Reynard the Fox
ISBN: HB: 9781851245550, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2020
464 pp., 20x14.5 cm
Reynard – a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders – is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanours. How...
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Jewish Treasures
ISBN: HB: 9781851245024, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2020
288 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 136 colour illus.
Representing four centuries of collecting and 1000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of M...
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Why North is Up Map Conventions and Where They Came From
ISBN: HB: 9781851245192, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2019
224 pp., 22.8x17.6 cm, 108 colour illus.
Many 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 to better represent our world and users to underst...
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Georgia A Cultural History Through the Wardrop Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781851244959, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2018
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 75 illus.
When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs of a modern nation. Recognising the significance of these transformative years, they actively participated in the work of I...
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£40,00
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Latin Inscriptions in Oxford
ISBN: PB: 9781851244300, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2015
104 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
For the first six centuries from the institution's foundation, Latin was the language spoken and written at the University of Oxford. It's no surprise, then, to find that the inscriptions carved into the monuments, colleges and municipal buildings of...
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Volume the First A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851242818, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2013
224 pp., 18x14 cm
A plain, blank stationer's notebook from the 1780s in the Bodleian Library contains some of the most famous juvenilia in all of English literature. Copied out in Jane Austen's youthful hand, "Volume the First", which takes its name from the inscripti...
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£25,00
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College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge
ISBN: PB: 9781851240838, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
96 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
At which Oxford college does a trumpeter summon you to dinner? What does the appearance of a rose bowl signify? How would you use a grace cup as distinct from a sconce cup? The custom of dining in formal hall at Oxford and Cambridge dates back to the...
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Illuminating the Life of the Buddha An Illustrated Chanting Book from Eighteenth-Century Siam
ISBN: HB: 9781851242832, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2013
160 pp., 26.7x19.4 cm, 86 colour illus.
This lavishly illustrated book investigates an outstanding eighteenth-century example of a samut khoi, a type of beautiful folding book found in Southeast Asia, which became particularly popular as a repository for the Buddha's teachings. Written in...
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Exile on Planet Earth Articles and Reflections
ISBN: HB: 9781851243730, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2012
192 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Although 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 and often shocking narratives which have become class...
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