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Cabinet - Sources

Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, April 21, 1915
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Silver
Clone of New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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III.1 The university curriculum
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Calligraphy
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Philosophical Transactions, no. 178 (1685)
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Islamic calligraphy
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 2
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Thomas Hariot, A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (Amsterdam, 1590)
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Clone of Vesalius - De humani corporis fabrica cover (in depth)
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The Danby Gate (Oxford, 1632-3): a portal between two worlds
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The Idiot Boy (vol. 1)
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Purpose
Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum Cover
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Anatomical engravings
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, April 14, 1915
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13. Sugar
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Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Cataloguing the Physick Garden (1648 and 1658)
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Church at Rovaniemi
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Pay book
Transcription: "Hens Should Cackle All The Winter."
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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