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The Rosary
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Immortal fame
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Plant to drawing: Geranium and Sideritis
Image for Dried plant specimens and associated drawings of Geranium tuberosum (Geraniaceae) with annotations in the hand of Jacob Bobart the Younger.
John Tradescant Jr in his Garden
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Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 939 (section 5, verso)
Transcription: "Mrs Shepherd on Poultry."
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Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Izal Toilet Tissue (3D)
Tombstone (Uzbekistan)
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Albrecht Dürer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (1526)
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Saami woman
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Machinae coelestis: double size engraved Plate by I. Saal after A. Stech (pp. 420-21)
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John Gerard's 'The herball' (1633)
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Leo X by Raphael (c. 1518)
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Arabic map: the Maghreb Chart, ca 1325-50
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Star Fort of Bourtange, Netherlands (1593)
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Brahe's description of Uraniborg, f. 43v
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The Star-Spangled Banner
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Commemorative postage stamps with architecture of Samarkand (Uzbekistan)
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Arcus Bipartitus
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Custom-made phonebook (Kazakhstan)
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Printed model to printed image: Senecio
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Persepolis palace complex
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Transcription: "Mother's Hens," May 12 1915
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William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye and Several Parts of South Wales (London, 1789)
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