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Babel Adventures in Translation
ISBN: HB: 9781851245093, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
176 pp., 24.4x20.7 cm, 65 colour illus.
This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of tran...
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Rare & Wonderful Treasures from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
ISBN: PB: 9781851244843, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2019
224 pp., 22x22 cm, 150 colour illus.
Since its foundation in 1860, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's world-renowned collections have become a key centre for scientific study and its much-loved building an important icon for visitors from around the world. The museum now...
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Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
ISBN: HB: 9781851245017, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
256 pp., 24.2x19 cm, 23 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
The much-loved tales from "The Thousand and One Nights" first appeared in English translation in the early nineteenth century. The popularity of these ancient and beguiling tales set against the backdrop of Baghdad, a city of wealth and peace, stoked...
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£30,00
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Making Medieval Manuscripts
ISBN: PB: 9781851244683, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2017
176 pp., 21.5x20 cm
Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscri...
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£14,99
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Veronica
ISBN: HB: 9781851242450, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
32 pp., 24.7x20 cm, 21 colour illus.
Veronica the hippopotamus lives with her large family on the cool muddy river bank, swimming in its clear waters. But she is not happy. She dreams of becoming a conspicuous hippopotamus, even perhaps, a famous one, noticed by everyone. So she sets o...
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£11,99
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Portraits of Shakespeare
ISBN: PB: 9781851244058, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2015
128 pp., 22x17.3 cm, 40 colour illus.
Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance is mysterious. Why is it so difficult to find imag...
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£14,99
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Huns Have Got My Gramophone! Advertisements from the Great War
ISBN: HB: 9781851243990, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2014
112 pp., 17x11 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Fountain-Pens – The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water? When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies wasted no time in seizing the commercial opportunities presen...
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£5,00
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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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Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford Ms Bodley 13a, a Facsimile with Introduction and Translation
ISBN: HB: 9781851243150, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2006
112 pp., 25x17.6 cm, 50 colour illus.
Among the many gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth during her week-long visit to Oxford in the summer of 1566, none is more remarkable than this manuscript history of the University illustrated with exceptionally fine drawings of its buildings. Though...
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