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Cabinet - Sources

Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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New diseases and new cures: syphilis and guaiacum
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T25: Gold double-daric, “King with bow and spear”. Carradice Type 3.
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
Darius' Red Sea Canal Stele
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 140)
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The three perfections: calligraphy
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Cartographic table, Nuremberg, c. 1553
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Fall of Constantinople, 1453
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Transcription: "Use The Language of Love."
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Soviet Piala (Uzbekistan)
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Bangle
Classical architecture arrives in Oxford, 1599
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Lithograph of a Swedish man and woman
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Saami bride and groom
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Russian man
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BSH19: Fragment of silver sheet, from the Black Sea hoard
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Two kingfishers
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Baked potato
Introduction and Contents
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Balagan (Central Asia)
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