About the cover illustration

The figure on the cover of AspectJ in Action, Second Edition is an "Ysleno Moluco," an inhabitant of the Molucan Islands, also known as the Spice Islands, a southwestern province of Indonesia. The illustration is taken from a Spanish compendium of regional dress customs first published in Madrid in 1799.

The title page of the Spanish compendium states:

Coleccion general de los Trages que usan actualmente todas las Nacionas del Mundo desubierto, dibujados y grabados con la mayor exactitud por R.M.V.A.R. Obra muy util y en special para los que tienen la del viajero universal

which we translate, as literally as possible, thus:

General collection of costumes currently used in the nations of the known world, designed and printed ...

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