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University Church
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Elias Ashmole
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Japanese pillar clock
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Russian woman
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The first map of 'America': the Waldseemüller map, 1507
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Boat on the Kitinen river
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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A poetic monument to Soviet post-modernism (Tajikistan)
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Mosaic philosophy
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Article featuring Helen Carmichael
New plants from the New World
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Bishops
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Молокосторож [и Молоко] (Казахстан)
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Plant to printed image: Helichrysum
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Exhibition case
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Rosso Fiorentino, Dead Christ with Angels (1524-1525)
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Trumpet
T1: Silver tetradrachm in the name of Maussollos, satrap of Caria (377-353 BC).
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Russian man and boy
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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SS Vicenzo e Atanasio Church, Rome (1644-1650)
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Nixon’s the charm
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