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Cabinet - Sources

A view from Tibet
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«Манас» Орозбакова (Кыргызстан)
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Epilogue: 1470 and after
Letter: "Homesteads for Women."
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Домбра Дины Нурпеисовой (Казахстан)
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‘Peoples of the USSR’ – Postage Stamp Collection (Central Asia)
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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T32: Silver Athenian owl imitation, struck by the satrap Mazakes, (?) 331-323 BC (or earlier).
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Missions to China
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Xanthos Trilingual, 337 BC
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Meydancıkkale
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‘Bosniac Girl of the Possávina’
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The Holy Roman Empire
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Pietro da Cortona, Ceiling of Palazzo Barberini, Rome (1633-1639)
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A map of the spread of printing in Europe
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Orbis sensualium pictus, 1658
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Wellcome MS 49, fol. 35r
Finnish boatmen
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Haida helmet (3-D)
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Ceramic vessels, terrapin whistle and greenstone amulets, the Bay Islands, Cocal Period (1000–1530 AD)
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Houses and totem poles in Masset
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A Copy of the Convivio (MS Ital. d 5)
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Wellcome MS 290, fol. 52v
Robert Fludd's Alchemical Philosophy and Medicine
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