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112 Gripes about the French
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €6.08Original price €6.99When 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 populati...
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26 Postcards from the Collections: A Bodleian Library A to Z
The Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €15.65Original price €17.99The Bodleian Library is home to innumerable cultural treasures from every corner of the globe, assembled over a period of four hundred years of col...
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A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99Were all familiar with a flock of sheep but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources,...
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A Christmas Carol
Charles DickensCurrent price €26.65Original price €32.50Marleys ghost, Bob Cratchits slide down icy Cornhill, Mr and Mrs Fezziwigs dance, and of course Ebenezer Scrooge himself, are all exquisitely illus...
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A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99A murder of crows, a charm of goldfinches, an ostentation of peacocks: collective nouns for British birds have existed since at least the mid fifte...
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A Date with Language: Fascinating Facts, Events and Stories for Every Day of the Year
David CrystalCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from liter...
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A Library Miscellany
Claire Cock-StarkeyCurrent price €12.74Original price €16.99What can be found in the Vaticans Secret Archive? How many books did Charles Darwins library aboard the Beagle hold? Which library is home to a col...
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A Month at the Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
Unknown SoldierCurrent price €12.17Original price €13.99In July 1917, a young man in the 12th East Surrey Regiment kept a journal of his experiences at the front. This poignant and moving account is narr...
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A Sanskrit Treasury: A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library
Camillo A. FormigattiCurrent price €55.80Original price €62.00This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths of South Asian literature, including the Maha...
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A Shakespearean Botanical
Margaret WillesCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exot...
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A Splendour of Succulents & Cacti
Caroline BallCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99Succulents, especially cacti, are the current focus of serious ecological studies but also the darlings of designers and style influencers. Their e...
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Adventures in Maps
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The twenty intriguing journeys and routes featured in this book range from distances of a few miles to great adventures across land, sea, air and s...
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Aesop''s Fables
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €31.44Original price €36.99For 25 centuries, the animal stories which go by the name of Aesop''s Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. T...
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Alice in Wonderland Journal - ''Too Late,'' said the Rabbit
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €14.36Original price €16.50Invented to entertain Alice Liddell on boat-trips down the river Thames in Oxford, Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland has become one of the most fam...
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Alice in Wonderland Journal - Alice in Court
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €14.36Original price €16.50Invented to entertain Alice Liddell on boat-trips down the river Thames in Oxford, Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland has become one of the most fam...
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An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections
Brian AldissCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Although Brian Aldiss cannot be pigeon-holed as a science fiction writer there is no doubt that he is a master of the art of conceiving other world...
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An Illuminated Alphabet: 26 Postcards
Bodleian LibraryCurrent price €14.78Original price €16.99The Bodleian Library has among its collections some very fine examples of illuminated letters in Western manuscripts and fine art books. These twe...
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Are You Really a Genius?: Timeless Tests for the Irritatingly Intelligent
Robert A. StreeterCurrent price €14.27Original price €16.99In 1938, two authors embarked on a mission for the greater good of the country: to find more geniuses. They set about compiling fiendish brain-teas...
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Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture
Robin MeyerCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BC...
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Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture
Robin MeyerCurrent price €66.59Original price €73.99Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BC...
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Art of Advertising, The
Julie Anne LambertCurrent price €33.29Original price €36.99Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and e...
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Art of the Islands: Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual Culture, c. 450-1050
Michelle BrownCurrent price €31.88Original price €37.50The Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking peoples who inhabited the British Isles and Ireland from late prehistory to the Norman Conquest left a ...
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Babel: Adventures in Translation
Dennis DuncanCurrent price €21.32Original price €24.50This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys ...
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Better Bed Manners: A Humorous 1930s Guide to Bedroom Etiquette for Husbands and Wives
Anne BalliolCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Ever needed tips on how to sleep next to a snoring spouse? How to convalesce in style? Or the etiquette of staying in a haunted house? This humoro...
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