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Picture postcards
Арба (Казахстан)
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Pavilion
Нагрудный туристический значок «Биби-Ханым»
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V.2 The 'studia humanitatis': what was at stake?
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John Parkinson's 'Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris' (1629)
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Philosophers guiding research
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Lithograph of Saami men
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Mechanical galleons, Augsburg c. 1585
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Proof, plate editing and print
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Pitt Rivers Museum, east end of the Court (print)
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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Rubens, Apotheosis of James I (1634)
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Bodleian Library, MS Canon. Ital. 258, fol. 32r
Colophon, fol. 45v
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The earliest book printed with movable type (1377)
Saami group
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Ora et labora
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Title page of Francis Bacon's Instauratio Magna (1620)
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Jaca Bastion Fort, Spain
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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Europe c. 1700
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