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Cabinet - Sources

Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 18 May 1899
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Drawing of Lake Vänern
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The key to miniaturisation: the Fusee, early 15th century
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Pre-civil war college plate
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Inscription (Uzbekistan)
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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Vitruvius on architecture
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Saami boy
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 428)
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John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Convocation House, 1634-7
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Clone of An Orthopaedic Stretcher from the Dresden Kunstkammer
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Cabinet for Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, 1632
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Printing and salvation in Japan: One Million Pagodas, ca. 764–70 CE
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Медаль материнства первой степени (Центральная Азия)
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Sentimental cards
Saxon women
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Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library (1477)
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Prague, 1584: Celestial globe clock
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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Ашкеназские евреи в Центральной Азии
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European bellicosity, 1100-1700
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens", April 21 1915
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