Georg Eberhard Rumpf (95 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 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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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Georgii Everhardi Rumphii. Nomine Plinii Indici Celebris. Herbarium Amboinense. Book.

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - 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 India 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 masterfully translated and extensively annotated by E. M. Beekman, whose introduction provides the first biography of Rumphius in English that incorporates new material.…

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orig.cloth Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 22x14cm, li,172 pp "A translation of Georgius Everhardus Rumphius's 17th-century study of tropical orchids. Rumphius (1627-1702), founder of Indonesian botanical exploration and one of the greatest naturalists of the 17th century, was the first to describe tropical orchids in a Western language. Within the pages of his monumental seven-volume "Ambonese Herbal", written in Dutch, he included descriptions of 36 species of orchids found on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia, plus 12 uncertified ones. His detailed descriptions reflect both the accuracy of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet. This volume gathers and translates into English all the sections of "The Ambonese Herbal" that are devoted to orchids. For each entry, Rumphius describes the plant, names it according to a pre-Linnaean system of nomenclature, gives its locality, and details its medicinal and non-medicinal uses. More than 20 line drawings accompany the entries. The volume includes notes to illuminate the text and an informative introduction that tells the life of Rumphius, a remarkable collector- naturalist who overcame fire, shipwreck and blindness to produce his masterwork" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Gut. 100 p. Guter Zustand. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Stempeln und Signatur auf Einband. Sonst Seiten sauber. / Good. Ex-library with usual markings. Clean pages. Sprache: Niederländisch Gewicht in Gramm: 270.

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Softcover. Condition: gut. 2004. Rumphius' wonderwereld: zeventiende-eeuwse natuurbeschrijvingen uit Ambon In deutscher Sprache. pages.

Condition: gut. 1998. Antwoordt en rapport [op enige pointen uijt name van seker heer in't Vaderlant voorgestelt door d'Edele heer Anthonij Hurt, directeur-generael over Nederlants' Indien en beantwoort door Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, Oudt Coopman en Raetspersoon in Amboina] aan Anthony Hurt 1684 = Answer and Report to Anthony Hurt In deutscher Sprache. pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First. THE HENRY CAVENDISH COPY. First Latin edition. Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum): Apud Petrum vander Aa, 1711. Folio (15 7/8" x 10", 403mm x 254mm). [Full collation available.] With an engraved portrait frontispiece and an engraved title; engraved headpieces to *2r and to p. 1 (A1r) and tailpiece to p. 15 (C2r); and 60 engraved (and etched) plates. Title-page printed in red and black. Bound in contemporary spotted calf (rebacked) with a gilt roll border. On the spine, six raised bands. In the panels, double blind fillets top-and-bottom. Title gilt to red morocco in the second panel. Edges of the text-block speckled red. Rebacked. Text block starting at the upper edge. Edges and corners worn. Peripheral tanning to the end-papers and to the end-matter. Some foxing on the text-leaves but not on the plates. Some minor offsetting to the rear of plates. With the ownership stamp of H[enry] Cavendish to the verso of the title-page, and a manuscript notation to the front paste-down marking this as a (Chatsworth) duplicate in 1832. With pencil cataloguing from Francis Edwards on the front paste-down. In all, a good copy whose provenance justifies its state. Rumpf (Latin Rumphius, 16271702), who would go on to be nicknamed Plinius Indicus Pliny of the Indies after the Roman natural historian, cut his scientific teeth in the employ of the Dutch East India Company, posted to Ambon in the Moluccas (eastern Indonesia). Though his magnum opus, the Herbarium Amboinense, would take another 30 years to be completed, his D'Amboinische Rariteikamer was published in 1705; the present item is the first Latin edition of that work, which brought the work to a larger audience and conformed the general practice of natural-historical publication and description using a standard Latin vocabulary. Rather than the plants for which he is better known, shells and other mineral items are the subject of this work. The plates have an almost alien character, with the bulges of crustaceans emphasized by the fine etched hatching. Rumpf's stature in natural science is rivalled or even surpassed by that of Henry Cavendish (17311810) in the physical sciences. Eldest son of the third son of the second Duke of Devonshire, he was nevertheless astonishingly wealthy; indeed he was the largest depositor with the Bank of England. Not one for rakishness or profligacy, Cavendish was fiercely shy and studious; his only outlet was the Royal Society Club, where, surrounded by those distinguished by fellowship of that society, he remained squeakily monosyllabic or mute. Deterred from publishing by his position as much as by his disposition, Cavendish would be recognized posthumously as a penetrating mind. He calculated the density of the earth, essentially described the nature of heat many decades before the publications of Sadi Carnot, "the father of thermodynamics," and discovered hydrogen. It might seem curious that a physicist should have owned a cornerstone work of natural history, but the curiosity of the eighteenth-century scientist was not so strictly delimited. After his death, his library was returned to Chatsworth; it was there classed as a duplicate in 1832 and sold. What a pity that his reputation then was insufficient to justify its retention. The book then passed though the hands of the great bookseller Francis Edwards in 1973, and then purchased at the 2010 Bloomsbury New York auction of Richard Harris's collection of natural history material. Nissen ZBI 3520.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Rumpf, Georg Eberhard. Thesaurus imaginum piscium testaceorum; quales sunt cancri, echini, echinometra, stellae marinae, etc. ut & cochlearum quibus accedunt conchylia denique mineralia. Leiden, Pieter vander Aa, 1711. Folio. Engraved title + engraved author s portrait + title in red and black with large allegorical vignette + [1]f dedicatory address to the reader with large engraved allegorical headpiece + 15 + [1 blank]p of illustration index with large engraved vignette at beginning and end + 60 numbered engraved plates with over 600 illustrations on rectos + 8p of name indexes in Latin, Ambonese Malay, and Dutch with engraved headpiece on first page. Contemporary marbled calf; spine decorated in gilt with morocco title label; corners scuffed. First Latin edition of the celebrated Cabinet of Rarities of Ambon by Georg Eberhard Rumpf (1628-1702), an outstanding German botanist who worked for the Dutch East India Company on the island of Ambon devoting his life to the study of natural history in the Moluccas in the Indian ocean. The beautiful book constitutes the first comprehensive work on South Pacific molluscs, with substantial content on minerals and other specimens of natural history. The exquisite plates show crustacea, including lobsters and crabs, exotic shells, animals, fish, birds, fossils, and minerals. Most of the illustrations were based on drawings by the celebrated Frankfurt artist Maria Sybilla Merian (1647-1717), now preserved in the archives of the Academy of Sciences at St Petersburg. The engraved title represents the interior of a palatial wunderkammer with connoisseurs appraising specimens on a table being brought to them by servants from large cabinets. The portrait shows the blind author sitting at a table working from touch, feeling shells and plants with his hands surrounded by books and dried exhibits. Rumpf lost his eyesight at the age of 42. The book was first published in Dutch in 1705 as 'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer'. The first great history on tropical marine life, especially shells of the Molucca Islands in the Indian Archipelago. Remarkable for its detailed observations of living animals, habitats, and fisheries (Beekman, The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet (1999); Dance, A history of Shell Collecting, pp26-27; Wilson, Mineral Collections 1530-1799,pp191-222. Bookplate of Juan del Olmo, a priest in Palencia pasted in blank title margin. Inner blank margin of engraved title discoloured in places, a small wormhole running through outer edges of top margin, occasional traces of usage in corners, otherwise a very good copy with excellent impressions of the plates.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1739 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 162 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 162 Rumpf, Georg Eberhard, 1627-1702.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1750 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 179 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 179.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1711 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 166 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 166 Language: Latin.…

Condition: Good. Engravings on 18th Century laid paper. 41 x 25.5cm. Each plate annotated in the lower margin in elegant 18th Century scholarly penmanship.Suite of 58 engraved plates from the Herbarium Amboinense of Rumph published by Joannes Burmann.The complete work is illustrated with 700 plates with text in Latin and Dutch. This is a catalog of the flora of the island of Amboina in the Moluccas archipelago (present-day Indonesia). Expertise by : Amaury BONNETAIN.…

Folio (16 x 9 3/4 in.; 40.6 x 24.7 cm.). Title-page printed in red and black with engraved vignette. Fine engraved portrait of Rumpf, additional engraved allegorical title-page , 60 exceptionally fine engraved plates, 4 large engraved vignette head- and tail-pieces, woodcut initials; occasional spotting, title page creased, plates XIII and XXXV with long closed tears. Contemporary sprinkled calf; rebacked preserving the original spine, corners strengthened, some surface abrasions. THE FIRST GREAT HISTORY OF MARINE LIFE IN THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. This work is the earliest and one of the most comprehensive depictions of crustacea, including lobsters and crabs, exotic shells, minerals, and other specimens of the South Pacific. Also known as a botanist, Rumpf [Rumphius], was the author of the 1741 posthumous publication "Herbarium Amboinense", and devoted his life to the study of natural history in the Moluccas, Indonesia. In 1652, Rumphius joined the military branch of the Dutch East India Company and sailed for Batavia. His expertise in natural history was encouraged by the Dutch governor-general, and Rumphius was able to establish a library and a small garden where he spent the next three decades compiling 12 volumes on the natural history of Ambon. PROVENANCE: Richard Harris, his sale Bloomsbury Book Auctions, New York, The Richard Harris Collection: Natural History & Colorplate Books, 13th October 2010, lot 93. REFERENCES: NHM. 6.4F.23F.…