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Cabinet - Sources

Jacob Bobart the Younger (1641-1719)
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Indian Institute, Broad Street
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Ptolemy's system: more accuracy, more compromise
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'Catalogus Herbarum ex horto Botanico Oxoniensi' (1676)
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John Parkinson's 'Theatrum botanicum' (1640)
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Secrets of the calendar
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Medicinal objects in princely collections
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Letters Patent of Edward III (1347)
Draft of a letter from Edward Burnett Tylor to Robert Hanley Hall, 14 December 1899
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Clone of Oxford Physick Garden (1621)
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Minerva on a triumphal chariot, Augsburg, ca 1620
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Pre-civil war college plate
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, fol. 259v
Cylinder seal with royal hero and Bes figure
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Gül-yaka (Turkmenistan)
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Ivalo valley
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Oldenburg's correspondence
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Плакат «Приучайте детей к труду» (Кыргызстан)
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Book Forms: Folded Books
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Zuccaro, Doorway to Palazzo Zuccari (1590)
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Luther's Bible of 1541
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A Florentine Poetic Anthology (MS Can. Ital. 99)
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