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Cabinet - Sources

Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegóvina on Foot... (1876)
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Star Fort of Palmanova (1593)
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'Urne-Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus', illustrated by Paul Nash (1932)
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Receipt for a payment to Robert Hanley Hall, 6 December 1900
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Relics
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Danby Gate, Botanical Garden, 1632-3
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Invention of the spyglass, 1608
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Sextans Chalibeus
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Totem poles
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Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
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Homesteading in Canada
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Missions to Japan
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Antiquarianism in the Aegean
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Print: "Mother's Hens", the Grain Grower's Guide, May 12, 1915
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Queen Elizabeth I Feeding the Dutch Cow
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Russian woman
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Disorder
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'Moon's fair beam'
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Epilogue: 1470 and after
Title page to part one: Organographia
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court
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