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Heath Robinson How to Make a Garden Grow
ISBN: HB: 9781851244553, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
120 pp., 18.5x12 cm, 116 black&white illus.
Ever wondered how to make a garden attractive in December? Or what to do with that corner by the dustbin? Answers to these questions can be found in this compact and charming book of tips for the green-fingered, accompanied by Heath Robinson's highly...
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£9,99
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New York in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244201, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
"Make your mark in New York and you are a made man" wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cynical approach: it's "an aviary over-stocked with ja...
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£5,99
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Paris in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244102, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the "most extraordinary place in the world", for Hazlitt, "a beast of a city", and for French writers, the essence...
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£5,99
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Sleepy Book
ISBN: HB: 9781851244577, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
36 pp., 24.7x20 cm, 36 colour illus.
All creatures sleep in their own way, from bears hibernating in caves, to horses standing in fields and seals stretched out on their flippers. This charming bedtime book explores the different ways animals slumber, from familiar pets like cats and do...
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£12,99
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Staging History 1780-1840
ISBN: PB: 9781851244560, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
224 pp., 21x21 cm, 79 colour illus.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, historical subjects became some of the most popular topics for stage dramas of all kinds on both sides of the Atlantic. This collection of essays examines a number of extraordinary theatrical wor...
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£25,00
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What is Red?
ISBN: HB: 9781851244584, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
24 pp., 24.7x20 cm, 24 colour illus.
Little Jonny ponders the meaning of colours as he explores the landscape. He dips his toes in a blue brook, picks purple flowers, digs brown earth and finds an enormous orange pumpkin. Finally yellow sunlight and the black night show him when it is t...
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£12,99
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Bodleianalia Curious Facts about Britain's Oldest University Library
ISBN: HB: 9781851242528, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
144 pp., 18.5x12 cm,
Which is the smallest book in the Bodleian Library? Who complained when their secret pen name was revealed in the library's catalogue? How many miles of shelving are there in the Book Storage Facility? What is the story behind the library's refusal t...
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£12,99
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Chicago in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244119, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
"I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages", so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the 'windy city',...
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£5,99
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Odes of Horace A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851244492, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
426 pp., 17x11.8 cm, 183 colour illus.
At the turn of the fifteenth century, private devotionals became a speciality of the renowned Ghent-Bruges illuminators. Wealthy patrons who commissioned work from these artists often spared no expense in the presentation of their personal prayer boo...
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£99,00
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Treasures from the Map Room A Journey through the Bodleian Collections
ISBN: HB: 9781851242504, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
224 pp., 27x27 cm, 120 colour illus.
This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China – the earl...
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£35,00
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