The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 1 Introduction and Book I: Containing All Sorts of Trees, That Bear Edible Fruits, and Are Husbanded by People Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, E. M. Beekman
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- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 14 Jun 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780300153705
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 548 pages: 279 x 190 x 40mm
- Illustrations:
- 122 b-w illus; 4 color tip-in pages.
- Sales territories:
- World
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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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Winner of the 2012 Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries annual Literature Award in the 'Technical' category
"Beekman's introduction, which deftly combines historic, geographic, scientific, and humanistic material, is a first-rate piece of work, brilliantly written and a joy to read. . . . a magnificent achievement."—Craig Smith, The Santa Fe New Mexican
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