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Reproduction photograph of Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole (print)
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Buffalo Bill Cody
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The four humours of Galenic medicine
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Clone of Anatomy: a manual art
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The Bibliophile Jean Grolier (1479-1565)
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Boyle, Hooke and Oxford
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Kano Naizen, Portuguese Carrack in Nagasaki (late 16th-early 17th century)
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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
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Letter from Archer Baker to Edward Burnett Tylor, 17 January 1901
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A cardboard box for concrete poetry
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Bramante, Tempietto (c. 1502)
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Boucher, The Invention of Drawing (18th century)
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Execution of Munster Anabaptists
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Saami bride
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Drawing of Bosnian people
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Karaburun Tumulus II, early 5th century BC.
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cgm 597, folios 260r-261v
The mariner's astrolabe: an iconic instrument
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Birth Certificate: Abrasha Levaevich Il’yasov (Uzbekistan)
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From the Bobarts' Herbaria to Morison's Plantarum historiae universalis Oxoniensis (1699)
Hemispherical silver bowl with gold appliqués (BM)
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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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Alfred Robinson’s painting of Star House Pole reproduced in E. B. Tylor’s article, ‘Note on the Haida Totem-Post...’
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Arcimboldo, Rudolf II as Vertumnus (1590-1591)
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