Illustrated with sixteen plates from the first edition of Ambonese Herbarium, The Poison Tree demonstrates why Rumphius was the greatest authority on tropical flora of the time, exercising considerable influence on subsequent research, and recognized as a major source by specialists in the field. The work is also an intriguing source book on native use of plants in the seventeenth century, native customs, lore, religion, and historical information.
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Illustrated with sixteen plates from the first edition of Ambonese Herbarium, The Poison Tree demonstrates why Rumphius was the greatest authority on tropical flora of the time, exercising considerable influence on subsequent research, and recognized as a major source by specialists in the field. The work is also an intriguing source book on native use of plants in the seventeenth century, native customs, lore, religion, and historical information.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. 260 pages. Dust jacket shows a quarter inch closed tear along top fold. Jacket is otherwise bright, clean, and intact, and is now protected in a clear mylar sleeve.
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Like New in Near Fine jacket. The first English translation of Rumphius' Ambonese Herbarium, and Curiosities. Rumphius was perhaps the greatest Dutch naturalist of the East Indies. These volumes of writings on tropical flora, shellfish, minerals, and precious stones found in the colonial Dutch East Indies also touch on: natural history, native use of plants in the 17th Century, native customs, lore, religion. Also: general historical information. Frontis, 16 plates. *** 260 pp. *** Index, notes. First Edition.
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