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‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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Надгробие Шаршемби уулу Абдыкадыра (Кыргызстан)
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Bobart the Elder’s Herbarium Hortus Siccus
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Description of the various parts of the large main building
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Humanist botany: the case of Dioscorides
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History
Introduction
Mausoleum of Hadrian
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Transitions to print: Virgil, Eclogues (Aldus Manutius, 1501)
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Russian peasant
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Alchemical Laboratory
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JH2: Silver tetradrachm of Akanthos (Chalcidice), fragment, c. 470 BC.
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V. Schools Quadrangle
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Marsilio Ficino, De amore
Unique prints
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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Saami mother and child
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Gerhard Mercator’s world map of 1569
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The Woman Who Did
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Between two worlds: The Danby Gate to the Physic Garden in Oxford, 1632-3
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Dutch Delft Militiamen, 1606-1674
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The surrender of Oxford, May-June 1646
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The origin and spread of botanical gardens in European universities
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Studiolo of Francesco I de Medici, 1570-75
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