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De Sphera
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Haida totem pole known as Star House Pole (3-D)
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Execution of Munster Anabaptists
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Qingbai Bowl, Southern Song dynasty, porcelain (12th Century)
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Plan of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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A view from Tibet
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Battle of White Mountain (8 November 1620)
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Follower of David Teniers the Younger, Alchemist in his Laboratory (early 18th century)
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Russian man
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The mariner's astrolabe and Portuguese exploration
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Trench Art Shell Case (3D)
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Samuel Puchas, Purchas his pilgrimes, vol. 3 (London, 1625)
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The newly acquired Gothic coffer
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Letter from John Wordsworth to his father Revd Wordsworth
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Portolan chart of Jorge de Aguiar (1492)
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 114)
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Опиумная банкнота (Туркестан)
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Lives of Ashkenazi Jews (Polish Citizens) in Central Asia
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Три военные фотографии Усмона Акрамова (Таджикистан)
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Copper engraving
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10. The Watermill
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T13: Silver stater struck at Tarsos in the name of the general Tiribazos, c. 384-383 BC.
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From decoration to illustration
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 19 1915
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