Beekman - The Ambonese Curiosity Cabinet; Georgius Everhardus Rumphius. Reprint.

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1999. Stout large 8°., original cloth, spine with gilded title label, dustjacket. (cxv), 567pp. Facsim. plate (the only known portrait of Rumphius), facsim. of the original title 1705, num. facsim. illustrations after original engravings, featuring crustacea from Maluku, facsim. maps of which double-page and sketch maps, explanatory glossary old dutch-english of measures and weights, list of Rumphius' letters to the Dutch East India Company and his publisher, list of principal sources, extensive notes to text, extensive bibliograph, index, references, table of contents. English language translation (facsim. reprint) of Rumphius' Magnum Opus De Ambonsche Rariteitenkamer, edited, annotated and translated by the late Professor E.M. Beekman, which includes a very important scientific survey and assessment of the life and work of Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, a famous 18th century author and researcher in the Moluccas (Ambon) in the service of the Dutch East India Company, V.O.C. A very important annotated facsim. reprint. Very fine copy.