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Rumphius' orchids : orchid texts from The Ambonese herbal / Georgius Everhardus Rumphius ; translated, edited, annotated, and with an introduction by E.M. Beekman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rumpf, Georg Eberhard, 1627-1702.
- Standardized Title:
- Amboinsche kruidboek. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rumpf, Georg Eberhard, 1627-1702.
- Rumpf, Georg Eberhard.
- Orchids--Indonesia--Ambon Island.
- Orchids.
- Botany--Pre-Linnean works.
- Botany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Rumphius (1627-1702), founder of Indonesian botanical exploration and one of the greatest naturalists of the seventeenth 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 thirty-six species of orchids found on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia, plus twelve uncertified ones. His detailed descriptions reflect both the accuracy of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet. This lovely book is the first to gather and translate into English all the sections of Rumphius' The Ambonese Herbal 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 twenty beautiful line drawings accompany the entries. The volume includes ample 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ORIGINAL PLATES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION
- One The Inscribed Angrek
- Two The White, Double Angrek
- Three The Red Angrek
- Four The Fifth Angrek
- Five The Yellow Angrek
- Six The Remaining Yellow Angreks
- Seven The Dog Angrek
- The Fifty Seventh Chapter of the Auctuarium
- Eight The Purple Angrek
- Nine The Beseeching Plant
- Ten The First Ground Angrek
- Eleven The Second Ground Angrek
- Twelve The Wrapper
- Thirteen The Triple Flower
- Fourteen The Large Ambonese Orchis
- Fifteen The Small Ambonese Orchis
- The Susanna Flower
- The Petola Leaf
- Abbreviations
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-164) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611730123
- 9781281730121
- 1281730122
- 9780300129311
- 0300129319
- OCLC:
- 1024008662
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