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Esther Helena Arens, « Native and foreign, global and local: Moving Plant Species Across Empires in the Ambonese Herbal », Botanical Letters, ID : 10670/1.09ftrv
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On the title page of an Ambonese Herbal manuscript, a tall ficus tree takes centre stage, while (presumably) Rumphius in intricate European clothing stands to the right of it, a hat on his head and a paper in his hands, observing a black local man working on the tree in the foreground. In the bottom section there is another illustration, a view of the fort Victoria on Ambon in 1690, seen from the water filled with tall ships flying the Dutch flag among smaller Asian vessels and a palm plantat...