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Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners
ISBN: HB: 9781851245307, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x17.6 cm, 150 colour illus.
Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel between continents was by sea. In the golden age of ocean liners, between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War, shipping companies ensure...
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£25,00
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Town Prints and Drawings of Britain Before 1800
ISBN: HB: 9781851245178, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
224 pp., 23.8x27.8 cm, 116 colour illus.
Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as c...
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£35,00
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University of Oxford A Brief History
ISBN: PB: 9781851245000, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2018
144 pp., 22x17.3 cm, 55 colour illus.
The 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 book offers a succinct illustrated account of its colour...
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£12,99
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London Prints and Drawings before 1800
ISBN: HB: 9781851244126, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2017
232 pp., 23.8x27.8 cm, 123 colour illus.
By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britain's expanding empire. Before the age of photography, the most widely used means of creating a visual record of the changing c...
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£30,00
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New York in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244201, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
"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 cynical approach: it's "an aviary over-stocked with ja...
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Paris in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244102, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
Over 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 beast of a city", and for French writers, the essence...
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£5,99
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Bodleianalia Curious Facts about Britain's Oldest University Library
ISBN: HB: 9781851242528, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
144 pp., 18.5x12 cm,
Which is the smallest book in the Bodleian Library? Who complained when their secret pen name was revealed in the library's catalogue? How many miles of shelving are there in the Book Storage Facility? What is the story behind the library's refusal t...
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£12,99
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Chicago in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244119, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
"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 these inauspicious beginnings rose the 'windy city',...
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£5,99
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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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£9,99
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London in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244010, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford", said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a "riddle", a "cesspool" and a "modern Babylon", and both L...
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