The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 5: Book XII: Concerning the Little Sea Trees, and Stony Sea Growths, Which Resemble Plants; Auctuarium, or Augmentation o

by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple uses, he succeeded in creating a cultural and scientific treasury of incomparable value for today's botanists, anthropologists, ethnobotanists, science historians, medicinal chemists, and other scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300153740
• ISBN13: 9780300153743
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 3.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 7.8" x 11.2"