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Cabinet - Sources

Bodleian, MS Ashmole 399, folios 18r-22r
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Piazza del Popolo (c. 1662-1681)
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Carried into exile
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Russian man and boy
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot... (1876)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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"Achaemenid Bowl" from Deve Hüyük (A)
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Консервированные огурцы (Кыргызстан)
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Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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The Houses of Tradescant and Ashmole, South Lambeth
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Movable type
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Alexander VII, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (after 1650)
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William Burge and the abolition debate
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A chemise binding
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Anatomical Theatres
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Common-sense observation: the sphere of the fixed stars
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The First Printed Edition of the Vita Nuova, 1576
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Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach, 1710
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 13002, folios 2v-3r
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Свидетельство о рождении Абраши Леваевича Ильясова (Узбекистан)
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William Wordsworth, A Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (Kendal, 1835)
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Verses in praise of Tycho Brahe by Rudolph Caukerchius
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