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24%OFFGeorgius Everhardus Rumphius - The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 6: Species List and Indexes for Volumes 1-5 - 9780300153750 - V9780300153750
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The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 6: Species List and Indexes for Volumes 1-5

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Description for The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 6: Species List and Indexes for Volumes 1-5 Hardback. 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. This book surveys the Indonesian economic and medicinal uses of the plants Rumphius described. Translator(s): Beekman, E. M. BIC Classification: 1FMN; PST. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 582.

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300153750
SKU
V9780300153750
Shipping Time
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About Georgius Everhardus Rumphius
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 ... Read more

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