Surgical knife, lithotomy, syringes, 15th-17th century.

Herbals, their origin and evolution : a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670 / by Agnes Arber.

A witch at her cauldron surrounded by monsters. Etching by Jan van de Velde II, 1626.

The Tetragrammaton and orders of heaven surmounting portraits of famous medical philosophers (Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna etc.) and John Woodall. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.

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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger

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History of condoms from animal to rubber

Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

Vrachebnoe stroenīe vʺ do-Petrovskoĭ Rusi / N. Novombergskīĭ.

The Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance / Gordon Campbell.

Union catalogue of printed books of 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in European astronomical observatories / Giovanna Grassi ; introduction of Paolo Maffei.

The cathedral libraries catalogue : books printed before 1701 in the libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales / edited by Karen I. James and David J. Shaw.

England and the discovery of America, 1481-1620 : from the Bristol voyages of the fifteenth century to the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth: the exploration, exploitation, and trial-and-error colonization of North America by the English / [David Beers Quinn].

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There’s more to gingerbread than ginger

Would you like to buy a unicorn?

History of condoms from animal to rubber

Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

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Vrachebnoe stroenīe vʺ do-Petrovskoĭ Rusi / N. Novombergskīĭ.

The Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance / Gordon Campbell.

Union catalogue of printed books of 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in European astronomical observatories / Giovanna Grassi ; introduction of Paolo Maffei.

The cathedral libraries catalogue : books printed before 1701 in the libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales / edited by Karen I. James and David J. Shaw.

England and the discovery of America, 1481-1620 : from the Bristol voyages of the fifteenth century to the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth: the exploration, exploitation, and trial-and-error colonization of North America by the English / [David Beers Quinn].

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Stories

There’s more to gingerbread than ginger

Would you like to buy a unicorn?

History of condoms from animal to rubber

Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life

Images

Catalogue

Vrachebnoe stroenīe vʺ do-Petrovskoĭ Rusi / N. Novombergskīĭ.

The Oxford dictionary of the Renaissance / Gordon Campbell.

Union catalogue of printed books of 15th, 16th and 17th centuries in European astronomical observatories / Giovanna Grassi ; introduction of Paolo Maffei.

The cathedral libraries catalogue : books printed before 1701 in the libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales / edited by Karen I. James and David J. Shaw.

England and the discovery of America, 1481-1620 : from the Bristol voyages of the fifteenth century to the Pilgrim settlement at Plymouth: the exploration, exploitation, and trial-and-error colonization of North America by the English / [David Beers Quinn].