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Cabinet - Sources

A deed box for an unpaid debt to the Bodleian Library
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Jan Treck, Still Life with a Pewter Jug and Two Porcelain Plates (1649)
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The First 20 Years, 1450-1470: Earliest specimens in print
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Robert Morison (1620-1683)
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‘Bulgarian Profile’
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Frans Post, A Sugar Mill Driven by a Small River (c.1650-1655)
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Siege of Constantinople (1453)
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‘Old Castle of Doboj’
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BSH10: Silver siglos, probably minted at Sardeis. Mid-late 5th century BC.
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The 1514 Appendix Aldina
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Male reproductive system
Тюбетейка (Узбекистан)
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'Greco-Persian' gem: Persian with bird
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Wadham College, 1610-13
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Machinae coelestis: engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (p. 382)
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Cushion starfish
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Wire-drawing bench, Nuremberg, before 1565
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Article by Edward B. Tylor, ‘On Two British Columbian House-Posts...’ (1899)
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Finnish family
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Morison's 'Sciagraphia'
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Frunze Museum, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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Ewer formed from a Seychelles nut, Prague, 1602
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The five orders as sets of mathematical proportions: Hans Blum, 1550
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Cricket