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John Tradescant the Younger with Roger Friend and a Collection of Exotic Shells
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Quadrant, England, brass (17th century)
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Queenie Vol. VIII, No. 5
Speculum academicum (1638): an Oxford lecture timetable in tabular form
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Anatomical engravings
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Zheltoqsan (Kazakhstan)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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The microcosm: The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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The Rise of Renaissance Botany
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Drawing of a man
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Brick-stamp from Ur (BM)
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Designed for travel
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Photo Album 1979 – 1982
Anonymous 'Plantarum Horti Medici Oxoniensis' (1648)
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Купюра 10 000 рублей Туркестанской Совесткой Республики
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Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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Spoon of reindeer antler
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Fall of Constantinople, 1453
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Japanese pillar clock
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Modelling retrograde motion: the theory of epicycles
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Gunpowder weapons in 15th-century Korea
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A nurse's photo album