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Cabinet - Sources

Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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The right man for the job
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Clone of Anatomy: a manual art
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 3
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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Family of Sigismund I Jagiellon, c. 1565
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Thomas Millington's (1628-1703) plate
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Photo of Azamat Altay and Chingiz Aitmatov (USA-Kyrgyzstan)
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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The growth of the empire, c. 559-500 BC
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Nature
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Глиняная свистулька (Узбекистан и Таджикистан)
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Heinrich Khunrath, 'Ora et Labora' (1609)
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Russian women
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John Gerard, The herball or Generall historie of plantes (London, 1597)
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Queen Elizabeth I Bible (3D)
Drawing of a saddled reindeer
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Chaplain's Collar
The Apadana at Persepolis
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Epilogue: 1470 and after
Angels
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Visitors to the Bodleian
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Explore the Display Case
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