{"product_id":"the-ambonese-herbal-volume-4-georgius-everhardus-rumphius-9780300153736","title":"The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 4: Book VIII: Containing Potherbs Used for Food, Medicine, and Sport; Book IX: Concerning Bindweeds, as Well as Twining a","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver 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. This comprehensive reference, complete with over 800 original illustrations, describes in remarkable detail more than 2,000 plants, their habitats, and their economic and medicinal uses. Also recorded are native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch, and Ambonese--and often in Macassarese and Chinese as well. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eE. M. Beekman's introduction discusses the \u003ci\u003eHerbal\u003c\/i\u003e's\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esignificance\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efor tropical botanical literature and surveys the Indonesian economic and medicinal uses of the plants Rumphius described. Beekman also provides invaluable annotations throughout the \u003ci\u003eHerbal.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCopublished with the National Tropical Botanical Garden\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgius Everhardus Rumphius\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0300153732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300153736\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.30h x 7.80w x 1.70d","brand":"Georgius Everhardus Rumphius","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48453302976767,"sku":"9780300153736","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ce200b3-cde4-45bb-b976-451176bf27f0.jpg?v=1777299452","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ambonese-herbal-volume-4-georgius-everhardus-rumphius-9780300153736","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}