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Curious Creatures on our Shores
ISBN: HB: 9781851245345, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2019
128 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 50 colour illus.
This veritable marine treasure trove of a book is richly illustrated by the author, with fifty of the most beautiful, easily encountered, and sometimes astonishing marine organisms found on British coasts, from seemingly exotic seahorses and starfish...
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£15,00
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Heritage Apples
ISBN: HB: 9781851245161, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2019
248 pp., 22x18 cm, 110 colour illus.
What would a greengrocer say if you were to ask for half a dozen Grenadiers and a couple of Catsheads? In the course of the past century we have lost much of our rich heritage of orchard fruits, but with taste once again triumphing over shelf-life an...
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£25,00
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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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Oxford Botanic Garden A Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781851245208, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2019
80 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
Oxford Botanic Garden has occupied its central Oxford site next to the river Cherwell continuously since its foundation in 1621 and is the UK's oldest botanic garden. The birthplace of botanical science in the UK, it has been a leading centre for res...
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£8,00
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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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£20,00
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Talking Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851245154, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2019
224 pp., 27x27 cm, 100 colour illus.
Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people's lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by wri...
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£35,00
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Selden Map of China A New Understanding of the Ming Dynasty
ISBN: HB: 9781851245246, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2019
96 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 40 colour illus.
Dating from the seventeenth century at the height of the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time, looking not inward to the Asian landmass but outward to the sea. Discovered in the s...
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£20,00
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Korean Treasures, Volume 2 Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University
ISBN: HB: 9781851245260, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2019
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 colour illus.
Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the University of Oxford. However, due to an early lack of spe...
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£35,00
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Princess who Hid in a Tree An Anglo-Saxon Story
ISBN: HB: 9781851245185, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2019
40 pp., 24.7x20 cm, fully illustrated
This story is about a brave and kind Anglo-Saxon princess called Frideswide who lived in Oxford a long time ago and just happened to be brilliant at climbing very tall trees. Her talent came in useful one day when a wicked king tried to kidnap her. H...
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£12,99
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Provenance Research in Book History A Handbook
ISBN: HB: 9781851245109, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2019
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
Since this handbook was first published in 1994, interest in the book as a material object, and in the ways in which books have been owned, read and used, has burgeoned. Now established as a standard reference work, this book has been revised and exp...
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£55,00
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