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Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple uses, he succeeded in creating a cultural and scientific treasury of incomparable value for today’s botanists, anthropologists, ethnobotanists, science historians, medicinal chemists, and other scholars. This comprehensive reference, complete with over 800 original illustrations, describes in remarkable detail more than 2,000 plants, their habitats, and their economic and medicinal uses. Also recorded are native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch, and Ambonese—and often in Macassarese and Chinese as well.
E. M. Beekman's introduction discusses the Herbal’s significance for tropical botanical literature and surveys the Indonesian economic and medicinal uses of the plants Rumphius described. Beekman also provides invaluable annotations throughout the Herbal.
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Georgius Everhardus Rumphius (1627–1702), a soldier and naturalist, arrived on the island of Ambon in Indonesia in 1653 and until his death devoted himself to the task of documenting the tropical environment he encountered there. The late E. M. Beekman, a highly acclaimed authority on colonial and Dutch language and literature, was Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He was also an accomplished poet and novelist and the author of two dozen books.
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“ The most esoteric of this season’s books are the hefty, alluring volumes (eventually six in all) of a 17th-century naturalist’s extraordinary masterwork, THE AMBONESE HERBAL (Yale University Press, $85 per volume) . . . a botanical treasure trove of Indonesian plants. Reading it, one enters a mysterious world all its own."—Dominique Browning, The New York Times (Dominique Browning The New York Times)
“The Ambonese Herbal,” with its lovely plates and dense descriptions, is for the serious collector’s library. Nonetheless, it’s full of fascinating social and medicinal lore, a legacy of a vanished time."—Dominique Browning, The New York Times (Dominique Browning The New York Times)
Winner of the 2012 Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries annual Literature Award in the technical category (Literature Award in the technical category Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2012-06-08)
“The Ambonese Herbal,” with its lovely plates and dense descriptions, is for the serious collector’s library. Nonetheless, it’s full of fascinating social and medicinal lore, a legacy of a vanished time."—Dominique Browning, The New York Times (Dominique Browning The New York Times)
Winner of the 2012 Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries annual Literature Award in the technical category (Literature Award in the technical category Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2012-06-08)
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0300153767
- ISBN 13 9780300153767
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages3360
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The Ambonese herbal : being a description of the most noteworthy trees, shrubs, herbs, land- and water-plants which are found in Amboina and the surrounding islands according to their shape, various names, cultivation, and use: together with several insects and animals. 12 parts with index in 6 Volumes. Complete.
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Book Description Condition: as new. Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by E. M. Beekman. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011. 6 Volumes. Orig. hardcover bindings. 3360 pp. 12 parts with index in 6 Volumes. Complete. New in orig. shrinkwrap. ISBN 9780300153705 9780300153712 9780300153729 9780300153736 9780300153743 9780300153750. Heavy item. - Volume 1 : Book I : Containing all sorts of trees, that bear edible fruits, and are husbanded by people. 548 pp. (122 b/w ills., 4 color tip-in p.); Volume 2 : Book II: containing the aromatic trees: being those that have aromatic fruits, barks or redolent wood. Book III: containing those trees, which produce some resin, notable flowers, or hurtful milk. Book IV: containing the wild trees that provide timber. 688 pp. (183 b/w ills.); Volume 3 : Book V: dealing with the remaining wild trees in no particular order. Book VI: concerning shrubs, domesticall and wild. Book VII: containing the forest ropes and creeping shrubs. 720 pp. (211 b/w ills.); Volume 4 : Book VIII: Containing potherbs used for food, medicine, and sport, Book IX: Concerning bindweeds, as well as twining and creeping plants. 624 pp. (138 b/w ills.); Volume 5 : Book X: concerning wild plants, at random. Book XI: deals with the remaining wild plants. Book XII: concerning the little sea trees, and stony sea growths, which resemble plants. Auctuarium, or augmentation of The Ambonese Herbal. 640 pp. (136 b/w ills.); Volume 6 : Species List and Indexes for Volumes 1-5. 144 pp. Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius (1627-1702), aassiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple uses, he succeeded in creating a cultural and scientific treasury of incomparable value for today s botanists, anthropologists, ethnobotanists, science historians, medicinal chemists, and other scholars. This comprehensive reference, complete with over 800 original illustrations, describes in remarkable detail more than 2,000 plants, their habitats, and their economic and medicinal uses. Also recorded are native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch, and Ambonese and often in Macassarese and Chinese as well. E. M. Beekman's introduction discusses the Herbal s significance for tropical botanical literature and surveys the Indonesian economic and medicinal uses of the plants Rumphius described. Beekman also provides invaluable annotations throughout the Herbal. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780300153767. Keywords : NATURAL HISTORY, Ambon natural history Indonesia. Seller Inventory # 286878
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