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INTRODUCTION

A GUTENBERG BIBLE ON VELLUM

HARRISON SCHMITT’S SPACE SUIT

THREE PIECES OF MARS

A PIECE OF NEWTON’S APPLE TREE

THE FIRST CULTIVATED PEARLS

LAMOUROUXIA VISCOSA SEED FROM MEXICO

THINGS BENEATH THE FLOORBOARDS

A BEJEWELLED CROSS

A HAIDA SHAMAN’S RATTLE

FRANCIS CRICK’S SKETCH OF DNA

TABLET K.143, SCHOOL EXERCISE BOOK OF ASHURBANIPAL, KING OF ASSYRIA

VLADIMIR NABOKOV’S BUTTERFLY GENITALIA CABINET

CHARLES DICKENS’S FELINE LETTER OPENER

THE HEART TOKEN

ITEM RDMSC RD 1/1/1

AUGUSTE PICCARD’S BALLOON GONDOLA

JASON JUNIOR

UNDERWATER PAINTING BY ZARH PRITCHARD

ANGLERFISH COUPLE

THE FIRST GIRAFFE IN FRANCE

A GREAT AUK EGG

A GLASS JELLYFISH

THE INTERIOR OF VASA

FLAG FROM THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR

A BLUE WHALE

LOGBOOK OF THE KON-TIKI EXPEDITION

WALLY HERBERT’S SLEDGE

SONG 21

EXU BOCA DE FOGO

LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY’S HATS

HAWAI’IAN FEATHER HELMET

THE LIENZO OF TLAPILTEPEC

MIXTEC TURQUOISE MOSAIC SHIELD

ALICIA (1965–67) MURAL BY JOAN MIRÓ AND JOSEP LLORÉNS ARTIGAS

AN UNOPENED BOOK

THE DIAMOND SUTRA

TIBETAN ABBOT’S COSTUME

TWO GOLDEN BEES, FROM THE GLASS PALACE IN BURMA

SLAP-SOLED SHOES

BLOOD’S DAGGER

TELL HALAF SCULPTURES

ALFRED NOBEL’S WILL

SKETCHES OF CHURCHILL

FRIENDSHIP BOOK

TORAH ARK CURTAIN

THE TOWER OF THE BLUE HORSES BY FRANZ MARC

CHRISTMAS TELEGRAM FROM AGENT ZIGZAG

A CHANNEL ISLANDS PILLAR BOX

BUCKINGHAM PALACE SWITCHBOARD

A LEAF OF GOAT EYE STAMPS

THE TOOLS THAT BELONGED TO QUEEN VICTORIA’S DENTIST

SKULL OF A TAPUIASAURUS MACEDOI

HANDAXE FROM HOXEN

A SERIES OF PAINTINGS BY OZIAS

THE SPAULDING COLLECTION OF JAPANESE PRINTS

VAN GOGH’S SKETCHBOOKS

BOX IN A VALISE BY MARCEL DUCHAMP

MARGARET FONTEYN’S TUTU

STANLEY PEACH’S CENTRE COURT DESIGNS

ORIGINAL DRAFT OF ‘AULD LANG SYNE’, ROBERT BURNS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PICTURE CREDITS

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