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The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet

The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet Hardcover - 1999

by Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus

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  • Title The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet
  • Author Rumphius, Georgius Everhardus
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
  • Date 1999-04-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Annotated, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 142209140053
  • ISBN 9780300075342 / 0300075340
  • Weight 4.32 lbs (1.96 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.31 x 7.91 x 2.13 in (28.73 x 20.09 x 5.41 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Crustacea - Indonesia - Maluku - Early works, Mollusks - Indonesia - Maluku - Early works
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-40046
  • Dewey Decimal Code 595.309

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From the rear cover

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 employ of the Dutch East Indies Company, stationed on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia. He wrote two major works; this one, the first modern work on tropical fauna, was published posthumously in Dutch in 1705. A classic text of natural history, it is now available in English for the first time. The descriptions in The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet cover the gamut of organisms found in the seas surrounding Ambon - crabs, shrimp, sea urchins, mussels - as well as minerals and rare concretions taken from animals and plants. A series of exquisite etchings accompanies the descriptions. The book has been translated and extensively annotated by E. M. Beekman, whose introduction provides the first biography of Rumphius in English that incorporates new material.

About the author

E. M. Beekman is professor of Germanic languages at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A scholar of Dutch colonial literature, he is the author of two dozen books and a noted translator.

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