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Cabinet - Sources

The Cost of Books and the Cost of Living
Image for The Zornale of the Venetian Bookseller Francesco de Madiis
‘Head of Brenese Peasant’
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Comenius's Praeludia, 1637
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Unique prints
Image for Proofs (left and centre) and published plate of ‘GRAMEN PANICEUM, ALOPECUROS, GRAMEN ALOPECUROIDES. TYPHOIDES, ET SPARTEUM.’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 8, Tab. 4).
Saami man
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Childrens' Socks (Kazakhstan)
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Introduction
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University botanical gardens: Padua, 1543
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking south-east across the Court
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Anatomy theatre as museum
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Pitt Rivers Museum ‘wrapped’, looking east across the Court
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Excavated Sarcophagus of Roman Girl, 1485
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The ancient papermaking process
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Почтовые марки с изображениями архитектурных памятников Самарканда (Узбекистан)
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Clock with Automated Procession of Bacchus, ca 1580
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The first superintendent: Jacob Bobart the Elder (c. 1599-1680)
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Jan van der Straet, The Alchemist's Laboratory (1570)
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Ferrante Imperato, 1599
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Giovanni Bellini, Madonna and Child (1488)
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Clone of Vesalius, De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543
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Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Frankfurt, 1598)
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A New Profession
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Archibald Pitcairne's (1652-1713) plate
Image for Plate of ‘PLANTÆ MULTICAPSULARIS POLYSPERMÆ’ from Morison’s Historia Plantarum Universalis Oxoniensis (1699: Sect. 12, Tab. 12) sponsored by Archibald Pitcairne (1652-1713).