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Cabinet - Sources

Map of Europe in 1519
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Roberto Valturio, De re militari (1472)
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Petrus Severinus, Idea medicinae philosophicae, 1571
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The four terrestrial elements
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Hierarchies
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Growers' Guide, March 31, 1915
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Надпись «Ленинград-Ташкенту» (Узбекистан)
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Drawing of The Seven Sisters
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Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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Tomb of Cyrus at Pasargadae
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (glass negative)
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Map of the New World, 1544
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Произведения искусства в семейных интерьерах Ташкента (Узбекистан)
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‘Bosnian Belle’
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Jacopo Pontormo, The Deposition from the Cross (1525-1528)
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Bibliography
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Drawing of mountains
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‘Types at the Fair’
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 5, 1915
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Al-Idrīsī's world map, 1152
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