The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet
by Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus; Beekman, E.M. (Trans.)
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0300075340
- ISBN 13
- 9780300075342
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. cxii, 567, b/w portrait frontis, b/w illus. . HB. 4to, orig. cloth. Vg in d/w (spine slightly faded; with protective acetate sleeve).. Translated, edited, annotated, and with an introduction by E.M. Beekman. A classic text of natural history, translated, and now available in English for the first time. G.E. Rumphius, also known as the 'Indian Pliny', was one of the great tropical naturalists of the seventeenth century. Born in Germany, he spent most of his life in the employment of the Dutch East Indies Company, stationed on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia. When originally published posthumously in Dutch in 1705, this was the first major work on tropical fauna.. [9780300075342]
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- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S47562
- Title
- The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet
- Author
- Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus; Beekman, E.M. (Trans.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300075340
- ISBN 13
- 9780300075342
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- Crustacea; Indonesia; Southeast Asia; Asia; Mineralology; Mollusca; Molluscs
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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