China during the Cultural Revolution: young people visit Shaoshan where Chairman Mao was brought up, and take inspiration from the evergreen trees in the hills. Colour lithograph after Wang Xin, 1975.

Bigam botanicam, sc. cervariam nigram et pini conos ... / præside Rudolpho Jacobo Camerario ; publico philiatrorum examini submittit Georgius Albertus Camerarius.

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