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Cabinet - Sources

Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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John Knox (1514-1572) - Portraits
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Parmigianino, Madonna of the Long Neck (1534-1540)
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Shrunken Glove (3D)
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Chinese books before paper
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Tombstone (Uzbekistan)
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Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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Saami man
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Gunpowder Warfare
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6. Guaiacum and syphilis
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Cornelis Bega, The Alchemist (1663)
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Disorder
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Book Forms: Bound Volumes
Russian woman
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Seal of Darius I (BM)
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Monographing plants
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William Wordsworth, The Prelude (London, 1850)
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16. Terrestrial longitude
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Printing in Venice
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Муйнакский рыбоконсервный комбинат (Узбекистан)
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The State Robe of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony, 1611
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Erasmus, Title Page of Adagia (1518)
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Churches at Sodankylä
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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (glass negative)
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