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Cabinet - Sources

Lithograph of men hunting sea lions
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Sextans Chalibeus
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10. The Watermill
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Map of Assyrian Empire (824 BC and 671 BC)
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Browne's Collection: a 'Cabinet of Rarities'
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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Verses to Tycho Brahe by Oliger Rosenkrantz
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Convocation House, 1634-7
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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T15: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of Tarkumuwa, c. 380-370 BC.
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Inscription of 'Cyrus' at Pasargadae
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Letter from Robert Hanley Hall to Edward Burnett Tylor, 18 May 1899
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Mapping the moon
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Remedy for women
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Saami woman
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Aristotle's four elements and Galen's four humours
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Invitation to Freshmen's Dinner
Statue of Darius from Susa
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Russian servant
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Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 11 June 1899
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Sunday best or bound for China?
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Sewing machine