Beekman E M Editor and Translator (2 results)

First edition, first printing Fine and bright beige cloth in near fine illustrated dust jacket with just the slightest age tone to text. Quite handsome all around. Gift quality.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Thus. First thus edition in fine condition, with a fine dust jacket. Edition with translated excerpts and illustrations from Rumphius' "Ambonese Herbarium" and "Curiosities". First volume of a 12 volume series on the natural history of the Indies. Foremost authority on the natural history of the Indies in his time, which was the late 17th century, and also a keen observer of ethnobotanical lore and information. xii, 260 pp. Botany, Ethnobotany, History, Anthropology, Natural History, Plants, Travel, Exploration, Indies, 17th Century.…