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Fifty Maps and the Stories they Tell
ISBN: PB: 9781851245239, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2019
144 pp., 19.6x19.6 cm, 80 colour illus.
From medieval maps to digital cartograms, this book features highlights from the Bodleian Library's extraordinary map collection together with rare artefacts and some stunning examples from twenty-first-century map-makers. Each map is accompanied by...
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£12,00
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Famous Last Words An Anthology
ISBN: HB: 9781851242511, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
144 pp., 18.5x12 cm,
Who said "I should have drunk more champagne"? Did Nelson really utter "Kiss me Hardy" from his deathbed? Which statesman was, at the end, "bored with it all"? Which king begged, "Let not poor Nelly starve..." An extraordinary number of deathbed say...
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£9,99
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First English Dictionary 1604 Robert Cawdrey's "A Table Alphabeticall"
ISBN: PB: 9781851243884, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
160 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
Here is a real treat for lovers of English – the very first dictionary in our language. Contrary to popular opinion, this honour goes not to Samuel Johnson, whose definitive tome appeared in 1755, but to Robert Cawdrey, who published his "Table Alpha...
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£8,99
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Food Lovers' Anthology A Literary Compendium
ISBN: HB: 9781851244218, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food" wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1903. Poets, novelists, chefs and gourmands before and after him would seem to agree. Collected in this anthology is a mouth-watering selection of excerpts on the subject...
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£10,00
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From Downing Street to the Trenches First-Hand Accounts from the Great War, 1914-1916
ISBN: HB: 9781851243938, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2014
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 16 colour plates
Why 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 safest place"? These compelling eye-witness accoun...
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£10,00
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Fantasy Travel Vintage People on Photo Postcards
ISBN: HB: 9781851243839, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2012
112 pp., 19x17.5 cm, 200 black&white illus.
This 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, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, "ordin...
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£10,00
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Father Christmas ABC A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851243259, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2005
24 pp., 14.3x11.8 cm
This very special picture book is an unusual and utterly enchanting ABC, entirely devoted to the theme of Christmas. Each image opens a window onto some form of festive celebration, from the lighting of the candles on the tree, to bell-ringing, ice s...
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£5,99
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