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Typographic Firsts Adventures in Early Printing
ISBN: HB: 9781851244737, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2019
208 pp., 24.5x19 cm, 70 colour illus.
How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we work out how to print in colour? Many of the standard features of printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Altho...
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£25,00
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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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£20,00
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Oxford Freemasons A Social History of Apollo University Lodge
ISBN: HB: 9781851244676, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
240 pp., 27.8x22.6 cm, 74 colour illus.
Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo – the Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole,...
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£35,00
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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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£20,00
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Lost Maps of the Caliphs Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo
ISBN: HB: 9781851244911, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2018
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 colour illus., 69 black&white illus.
About a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, f...
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£37,50
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Devil's Dictionary The Patriotic Art of Lying for One's Country
ISBN: HB: 9781851245079, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2018
256 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
In 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the San Francisco Wasp, and then for William Randolph Hearst's "San Francisco Examiner". Bierce was launched on a journ...
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£12,99
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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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Hungry Goat
ISBN: HB: 9781851245031, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
40 pp., 24.7x20 cm, fully illustrated
The (very) hungry goat has a big appetite which gets him into all kinds of adventures. He'll eat anything, from pigs swill to frying pans and even barbed wire. As a result he grows fatter and fatter until one day he gobbles up something that sends hi...
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£12,99
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Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9781851244898, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 46 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.
Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and molluscs. Disappointed with the work of established artists, Lister decided to teach his daughters, Sus...
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£25,00
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Real McCoy and 149 other Eponyms
ISBN: HB: 9781851244980, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
144 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm
The English language is rich with eponyms – words that are named after an individual – some better known than others. This book features 150 of the most interesting and enlightening specimens, delving into the origins of the words and describing the...
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£9,99
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