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  • Adiantum cajennense Willd. ex Klotzsch

    Collection Date
    1760 to 1808
  • Dish, fragment of foot

    Date
    1590-1640
    Period
    Momoyama or Edo period
  • Scleria gaertneri Raddi

    Collection Date
    1760 to 1808
  • Waka poem "The green willows..." ("Aoyanagi no...")

    Date
    17th century
    Period
    Edo period
  • Available Online at BHL Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet / geordnet und beschrieben von Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini der Arzneygelahrtheit Doktor und approbirter Praktikus in Berlin, Mitglied der römisch kayserlichen Akademie der Naturforscher, der russisch kayserl. frey ökonomischen Sozietät, der kurmainzischen Akademie nüzlicher Wissenschaften, der fürstlich hessischen Sozietät, der kur. fürstlich sac̈hs. Bienengesellschaft, der schles. ökon. patriot. der danziger natur-forschenden Gesellschaft ordentlichen Mitglied und beständugen Sektretär der berlinischen Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde ; unter dessen Aufsicht nach der Natur gezeichnet und mit lebendigen Farben erleuchtet ; III. Band

    Date
    1777
  • Bowl, rim fragment

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    1610-1660
    Period
    Edo period
  • Rim fragment

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    1630-1640
    Period
    Edo period
  • Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V as Tametomo

    Date
    1786
    Period
    Edo period
  • Exostema caribaeum (Jacq.) Roem. & Schult.

    Collection Date
    1760 to 1808
  • 2 Shillings and 6 Pence, North Carolina, 1771

    date made
    1771
    date on object
    1771-12

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