georg eberhard rumpf (18 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good condition. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. 172pp. 22 cm.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. Cloth, dj. Minor shelf wear. Else a bright, clean copy.

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover, dustjacket without folds or tears. 260 pages, no markings or writing. Binding square and tight.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover, dustjacket without folds or tears. 260 pages, no markings or writing. Binding square and tight.

hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item.

hardcover. Zustand: Befriedigend. 172 Seiten; 9780300098143.4 Gewicht in Gramm: 500.

Zustand: Good. Paperback met flappen, illustraties in z/w, 8vo.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Sehr gut. Aufl. 1981, Namenseintrag * Schutzumschlag: leichte Lagerspuren * Schnitt: leicht nachgedunkelt * Seiten: wie ungelesen.

Zustand: New.

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.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.

Hardcover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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.

Zustand: 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.

Leyde, Petrum vander Aa, 1711. In-folio, [4]-15-[8] pp. 62 pl., basane granitée brune, dos à nerfs, tranches rouges (reliure défraîchie mais solide, taches, galeries de ver parfois avec atteinte mineure à l'image, annotations, déchirure à la 13e pl. sans manque). Première édition latine, l'originale ayant paru en néerlandais en 1705. Elle est illustrée d'un titre-frontispice gravé avec le titre court, d'un portrait de l'auteur dans son cabinet d'histoire naturelle gravé par J. de Later d'après un portrait fait par Paul Auguste Rumpf (son fils) et 60 planches, reprises de l'édition originale. Le titre est orné d'une vignette gravée par Goeree, et de trois vignettes dans le texte. Cette monographie regroupe les différentes espèces de crustacées, d'échinodermes, de coquillages, de minéraux et de fossiles qui se trouvent en Indonésie, et plus particulièrement dans l'archipel des Moluques. L'auteur, le botaniste et médecin Georg Rumpf, le compose alors qu'il est en poste pour la Compagnie des Indes orientales à Ambon, la capitale des Moluques. Il amasse pendant plusieurs décennies une importante collection de spécimens d'espèces marines mais également de plantes et rédige plusieurs catalogues de la faune et de la flore locale. Cet ouvrage reprend les gravures faites pour l'édition originale dessinées par Maria Sybilla Merian, l'une des premières et rares femmes peintre et naturaliste de son époque. Elle effectue ses dessins préparatoires sur les descriptions de Rumpf ainsi qu'à partir des spécimens disponibles dans les collections d'histoire naturelle en Hollande. Dans sa Conchyliologie, Dezallier d'Argenville attribue l'exécution des gravures à Simon Scheinvoët (ou Simon Schynvoet, selon les sources). Tampon ex-libris Zutterling & Cie, Philippeville (Algérie). Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s) * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve.