Historic Heart of Oxford University
ISBN: HB: 9781851245284, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2022
192 pp., 25,0x21,0 cm, 102 colour illus.
Oxford's university buildings are world-famous. Over eight centuries, starting in the twelfth century, the University – the third oldest in Europe – gradually occupied a substantial portion of the city, creating in the process a unique townscape cont...
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Brief History of the Bodleian Library Revised Edition
ISBN: HB: 9781851245444, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2020
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 100 colour illus.
How did a library founded over 400 years ago grow to become the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen million items? From its foundation by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 to the opening of the Weston Library in 2015, this illustra...
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Temple of Science The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History
ISBN: HB: 9781851245567, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
192 pp., 25,0x21,0 cm, 100 colour illus.
Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with...
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Merton College Library
ISBN: PB: 9781851245390, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2020
144 pp., 22,0x17,3 cm, 85 colour illus.
The Merton library is rightly known for its antiquity, its beautiful medieval and early modern architecture and fittings and for its remarkable and important collection of manuscripts and rare books, yet a nineteenth-century plan to tear the medieval...
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Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum A Brief History
ISBN: PB: 9781851244652, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2017
144 pp., 22,0x17,3 cm, 66 colour illus.
Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in Britain and has occupied its site in central Oxford since 1621. Conceived as a place to grow medicinal plants, born in the turmoil of civil war and nurtured during the restoration of the...
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Planting Paradise Cultivating the Garden
ISBN: HB: 9781851243433, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2010
176 pp., 25,0x25,0 cm, 51 colour illus.
An astonishing 430,000 green plant species and 350,000 flowering plant species have been identified since the early sixteenth century. According to Stephen Harris, author of "Planting Paradise", "these figures reflect the exploration, the accumulatio...
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