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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Joan's Short Story
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘Remarks on Totemism...’ (1899)
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 244r
Dante's Canzoniere in Britain
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Перевод Дюшена (Таджикистан)
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Automata
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T4: Silver tetradrachm struck in western Asia Minor (?), c. 341-334 BC.
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Finnish boatmen
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VI.7 The Reformation as lecture
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The 15th-century printing types
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Meydancıkkale
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Clone of New plants from the New World
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Texture of plants
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Synopsis of the statutes of the University of Oxford in broadsheet form (1635)
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War and Peace in Europe, 1598-1650
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Florentine Codex, Nahuas infected with smallpox (c. 1585)
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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Apadana audience relief
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Movable type
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Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, ff. 42v - 43r
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The Decrees of the Council of Trent
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