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CONTENTS
A PIECE OF NEWTON’S APPLE TREE
LAMOUROUXIA VISCOSA SEED FROM MEXICO
THINGS BENEATH THE FLOORBOARDS
TABLET K.143, SCHOOL EXERCISE BOOK OF ASHURBANIPAL, KING OF ASSYRIA
VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S BUTTERFLY GENITALIA CABINET
CHARLES DICKENS’S FELINE LETTER OPENER
AUGUSTE PICCARD’S BALLOON GONDOLA
UNDERWATER PAINTING BY ZARH PRITCHARD
FLAG FROM THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR
LOGBOOK OF THE KON-TIKI EXPEDITION
LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY’S HATS
MIXTEC TURQUOISE MOSAIC SHIELD
ALICIA (1965–67) MURAL BY JOAN MIRÓ AND JOSEP LLORÉNS ARTIGAS
TWO GOLDEN BEES, FROM THE GLASS PALACE IN BURMA
THE TOWER OF THE BLUE HORSES BY FRANZ MARC
CHRISTMAS TELEGRAM FROM AGENT ZIGZAG
THE TOOLS THAT BELONGED TO QUEEN VICTORIA’S DENTIST
SKULL OF A TAPUIASAURUS MACEDOI
A SERIES OF PAINTINGS BY OZIAS
THE SPAULDING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PRINTS
BOX IN A VALISE BY MARCEL DUCHAMP
STANLEY PEACH’S CENTRE COURT DESIGNS
ORIGINAL DRAFT OF ‘AULD LANG SYNE’, ROBERT BURNS