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Great Medical Discoveries An Oxford Story
ISBN: PB: 9781851240036, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2013
96 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 colour illus.
The "miracle drug" penicillin was first given intravenously to a patient in Oxford on 12 February 1941, leading to a transformation in the way that bacterial infection is understood and treated. What was to become one of the greatest stories in biome...
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How to Dine in Style The Art of Entertaining, 1920
ISBN: HB: 9781851240869, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2013
184 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 30 black&white illus.
First published in 1920, "How to Dine in Style" opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dining, where the basic function of ingesting nourishment was elevated to a high social art, attended by intricate details and elaborate ritual. Starched li...
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Volume the First A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851242818, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2013
224 pp., 18x14 cm
A plain, blank stationer's notebook from the 1780s in the Bodleian Library contains some of the most famous juvenilia in all of English literature. Copied out in Jane Austen's youthful hand, "Volume the First", which takes its name from the inscripti...
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How to be a Good Mother-in-Law
ISBN: HB: 9781851240821, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Everyone knows a joke about mothers-in-law, but what are the golden rules you need to become a popular one? The authors of this pioneering guide, first published in the 1930s, aimed to dramatically improve relationships for all the family with sound...
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How to be a Good Motorist
ISBN: HB: 9781851240807, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 9 black&white illus.
How should a motorist converse with the police? Should you switch off your headlights when another car approaches? What parts of the engine can you fix with a sheet of emery paper, insulating tape and copper wire? The 1920s heralded the age of motori...
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Paintings from Mughal India
ISBN: PB: 9781851240876, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
184 pp., 21x15.4 cm, 80 colour illus.
A unique style of court painting, combining Persian, Indian and European elements, developed in India under the Mughal emperors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally an art of book illustration, it soon gave rise to highly naturalist...
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112 Gripes About the French
ISBN: HB: 9781851240395, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
120 pp., 15.5x10 cm, 10 black&white illus.
When American troops arrived in Paris to help maintain order at the end of the Second World War they were, at first, received by the local population with a sense of euphoria. However, the French soon began to resent the Americans for their display o...
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College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge
ISBN: PB: 9781851240838, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
96 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
At which Oxford college does a trumpeter summon you to dinner? What does the appearance of a rose bowl signify? How would you use a grace cup as distinct from a sconce cup? The custom of dining in formal hall at Oxford and Cambridge dates back to the...
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Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library A Select Catalogue
ISBN: HB: 9781851242979, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2013
640 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 112 colour illus.
The liturgical psalter is one of the most important medieval Christian books and the most frequently and richly illuminated of medieval liturgical manuscripts. In its simplest form the psalter included 150 psalms, preceded by a calendar and followed...
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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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