What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?
Western Civilization in Fifty Plants
ISBN: HB: 9781851244478,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
October 2015
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 50 black&white illus.
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 50 black&white illus.
When did the British Government become the world's largest drugs pusher? What tree is frequently used to treat cancer? Which everyday condiment is the most widely traded spice on the planet?
Plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Fro...
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14.99 GBP
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Book Lovers' Anthology
A Compendium of Writing about Books, Readers and Libraries
ISBN: PB: 9781851242481,
ISBN: HB: 9781851244188,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
October 2014
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
"A blessed companion is a book – a book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend", wrote Douglas William Jerrold, over a hundred years ago. Major writers through the centuries have turned their minds to the subject of books, often with humour, somet...
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20.00 GBP
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Conspiracy of Ravens
A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds
ISBN: HB: 9781851244096,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
August 2014
144 pp., 17,0x11,0 cm, 110 black&white illus.
144 pp., 17,0x11,0 cm, 110 black&white illus.
"A murder of crows", "a charm of goldfinches", "an ostentation of peacocks": collective nouns for British birds have existed since at least the mid fifteenth century. They are thought to originate in texts about hunting, but have since evolved into e...
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College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge
ISBN: PB: 9781851240838,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
September 2013
96 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
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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9.99 GBP
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Tradescants' Orchard
The Mystery of a Seventeenth-Century Painted Fruit Book
ISBN: HB: 9781851242771,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
April 2013
128 pp., 30,2x19,5 cm, 81 colour illus.
128 pp., 30,2x19,5 cm, 81 colour illus.
In the early seventeenth century there was eager interest, among the leisured classes, in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, not least for the kitchen gardens and orchards of England's grand houses. The volume of charming, vibrant, almost prim...
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Pick of the Bunch
The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers
ISBN: HB: 9781851243037,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
September 2009
224 pp., 19,4x19,4 cm, 70 colour illus.
224 pp., 19,4x19,4 cm, 70 colour illus.
The list of favorite flowers has remained remarkably constant over the centuries. From late-sixteenth, early seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish flower-pieces we can see what were considered desirable at that time: the rose, iris, carnation and lil...
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10.00 GBP
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Instructions for British Servicemen in Germany, 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781851243518,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
September 2007
64 pp., 14,8x10,0 cm
64 pp., 14,8x10,0 cm
Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied assault on Germany. Two years earlier, work had already started on a guide to assist them in negotiating everyday life in what then was still enemy terr...
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4.99 GBP
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942
ISBN: HB: 9781851243952,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
September 2006
64 pp., 14,8x10,0 cm
64 pp., 14,8x10,0 cm
Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to recapture the Philippines and defeat Japan. They encountered a country full of reassuring similarities and strange differences. Here wa...
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Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781851243358,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
October 2005
64 pp., 14,8x10,0 cm
64 pp., 14,8x10,0 cm
In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this war-ravaged society (widespread malnourishment, rampant tube...
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5.99 GBP
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942
Reproduced from the Original Typescript, War Department, Washington, DC
ISBN: HB: 9781851240852,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
September 2004
48 pp., 14,8x10,0 cm
48 pp., 14,8x10,0 cm
In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the "British, their country, and their ways". The guide was intended to lessen the culture shock for those embarking on their...
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