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Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners
ISBN: HB: 9781851245307, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x17.6 cm, 150 colour illus.
Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel between continents was by sea. In the golden age of ocean liners, between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War, shipping companies ensure...
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£25,00
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Sanskrit Treasury A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library
ISBN: HB: 9781851245314, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2019
240 pp., 28.5x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus.
This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas, and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramaya?a. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, the pass...
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£50,00
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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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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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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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Shakespeare's Dead
ISBN: PB: 9781851242474, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
192 pp., 21x21 cm, 80 colour illus.
Pyramus: "Now die, die, die, die, die". [Dies] "A Midsummer Night's Dream" "Shakespeare's Dead" reveals the unique ways in which Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for th...
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£19,99
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Shakespearean Botanical
ISBN: HB: 9781851244379, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
208 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In "Romeo and Jul...
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£12,99
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Scholars, Poets and Radicals Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections
ISBN: HB: 9781851244256, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 48 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hamm...
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£30,00
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Secrets in a Dead Fish The Spying Game in the First World War
ISBN: HB: 9781851242603, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2014
128 pp., 17x11 cm, 20 black&white illus.
How did German intelligence agents in the First World War use dead fish to pass on vital information to their operatives? What did an advertisement for a dog in "The Times" have to do with the movement of British troops into Egypt? And why did Britis...
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£5,00
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