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Cabinet - Sources

Portable Sundials
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Title page of Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina on Foot... (1877)
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Geoffrey Shepherd's Letters Pt. 3
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'Like a bundle of thin laths'
Santucci's sphere, Florence, 1588-93
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Pitt Rivers Museum, looking east across the Court (stereograph)
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Field postcard
Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
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Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1875)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by the author (p. 308)
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Books on bamboo
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British Victory Medal
Clone of New plants from the New World
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Clone of The four terrestrial elements
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The Settala Collection, 1666
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Henry Compton's (1631/2-1713) plate
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Luther's Bible of 1541
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Catacomb Saints
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Ptolemy World Map, 1540
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Resettlement Registration Application (Tajikistan)
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Inscribed oracle bones, 12th century BCE
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Maps as symbols of power: Gallery of Maps, Vatican Palace, 1580-83
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Russian peasant
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De Sphera
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