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Musical Clock with Spinet and Organ, Augsburg, ca 1625
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Map of religious divisions in the Swiss Confederation (1536)
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Dedication (concluded)
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What was printed in the 15th century?
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William Harvey (1578-1657)
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Iconoclasm in the Low Countries
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From humanist manuscripts to italic pocketbooks: the Aldine press, 1501
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 392-3)
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Boat on the Kitinen river
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Portrait of a Saami girl
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Thomas Browne, 'Urne-Buriall' (1658)
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Beer glass
Shrapnel paper knife
Gerhard Mercator’s world map of 1569
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Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort's (1630-1715) plate
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Saxon woman
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BSH14: Silver strip.
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The world's earliest dated printed book (868)
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Mountains on the moon
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Bill of account from the Hudson’s Bay Company to Edward Burnett Tylor, 9 November 1900
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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, ca 1600
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Дом-музей М.В. Фрунзе, Бишкек (Кыргызстан)
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Tower of the Five Orders, 1613-24
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Itinerary
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