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Islamic Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851244928, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
192 pp., 28x23.7 cm, 60 colour illus.
Spanning 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 placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and...
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£35,00
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It's All Greek Borrowed Words and their Histories
ISBN: HB: 9781851245055, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2018
224 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.
Most of us are aware that words such as geometry, mathematics, phobia and hypochondria derive from ancient Greek, but did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse can also trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 bce? This b...
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£12,99
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Illuminated Alphabet 26 Postcards
ISBN: HB: 9781851244133, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2014
52 pp., 16.5x12 cm, 26 colour illus.
The Bodleian Library has among its collections some very fine examples of illuminated letters in Western manuscripts and fine art books. These twenty-six detachable postcards feature historiated initials decorated with gold leaf from medieval and ren...
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£8,33
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If England Were Invaded
ISBN: PB: 9781851244027, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2014
224 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 2 black&white illus.
...No fewer than two hundred thousand Germans were already upon English soil! The outlook grew blacker every hour. Eight years before the outbreak of the First World War, when national hysteria over the supposed presence of German spies in England gr...
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£5,00
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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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£35,00
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Illustrating Empire A Visual History of British Imperialism
ISBN: PB: 9781851243341, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2011
224 pp., 23x21 cm, 228 colour illus.
Using fascinating printed documents that have survived by chance, a new book, released on Empire Day, vividly tells the story of the British Empire from the unusual angle of a unique collection of over 200 images of everyday life ephemera, many of wh...
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£19,99
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Itineraries of William Wey
ISBN: HB: 9781851243044, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
William Wey, fifteenth-century Devon priest, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Bursar of Eton College, made three pilgrimages between 1456 and 1462 – to Compostella, Rome and the Holy Land. The complete text of his narrative has never before been...
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£27,99
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Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781851243518, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2007
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm
Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied assault on Germany. Two years earlier, work had already started on a guide to assist them in negotiating everyday life in what then was still enemy terr...
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£4,99
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942
ISBN: HB: 9781851243952, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2006
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm
Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to recapture the Philippines and defeat Japan. They encountered a country full of reassuring similarities and strange differences. Here wa...
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Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781851243358, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2005
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm
In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this war-ravaged society (widespread malnourishment, rampant tube...
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£5,99
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