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Cabinet - Sources

Georg Christoph Stirn, 1638
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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Introduction
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Arts End, 1610-12
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Drawing of Lake Vänern
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Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (England, late 14th century)
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Drawing of mountains
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Хлопок как символ (Узбекистан)
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘The Two Round Spaces on the Tombstone’, manuscript on paper, 1800
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Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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Самовар (РСФСР/Афганистан, ок. 1925)
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August of Saxony by Lucas Cranach jr., 1572
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The 15th-century printing types
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Russian fruit seller
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Letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Henry Balfour, 21 November 1901
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Dala Shiypon in Jarqurgon District (Surkhandaryo Viloyat, Uzbekistan)
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Astrolabe table clock
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Upper Gallery, 1618-19
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Princess Mary Gift Tin (3D)
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Johann Joachim Winkelmann
The uses of the telescope, 1609-10
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Russian basket seller
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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