RUMPHIUS GEORG EBERHARD DAmboinsche Rariteitkamer

Sale 2450 - Lot 317

Price Realized: $ 780

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

RUMPHIUS, GEORG EBERHARD. D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer. Half-title, engraved titular frontispiece, title-page in red and black, portrait and 60 plates, [xxiv], 340, [43] pages. Folio, 14 1/2x9 inches, modern 1/4 morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine lettering piece; preliminaries (including title and portrait) extended or reinforced at an early time, 1705 frontispiece trimmed and laid down with 1740 imprint pasted over, light dampstain to upper corner running throughout. Amsterdam: Jan Roman de Jonge, 1741

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Second edition of Rumphius's classic cabinet of marine life. The beautifully engraved plates display a variety of crustaceans, shells, minerals, gems, corals and fossils found in the waters surrounding Ambon Island, where he was in the service of the Dutch East India Company from 1653 until his death in 1702. Known as Plinius Indicus (Pliny of the Indies), Rumphius succumbed to blindness caused by glaucoma in 1670, but with assistance, persevered in his pursuit of the study of the flora and sea life of the Spice Islands. Nissen ZBI 3518.