D'Amboinsche rariteitkamer, behelzende eene beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te weeten raare krabben, kreeften, en diergelyke zeedieren, als meede allerhande hoorntjes en schulpen, die men in d'Amboinsche Zee vindt: daar beneven zommige mineraalen, gesteenten, en soorten van aarde [...].

Folio: engr. title-[24]-portrait-340-[44] pp. (some dispersed minor spotting, some dampst. in the upper blank margins).

Contemp. blindst. vellum, spine with raised bands (some staining on covers, joints starting to split).

Later ed. of a major work on tropical marine life, esp. shells, of the Molucca Islands (Indonesia) by G.E. Rumpf (Latinised Rumphius) (1627-1702), the blind (!) "Indian Pliny", who was stationed at Ambon in the service of the VOC. Engr. ill.: title by Jacobus de Later after Jan Goeree, title-vign., full-page portrait by J. de Later and F. Halma after P.A. Rumphius, 60 numbered full-page plates after Maria Sibylla Merian, 5 head- and tailpieces. Title in red & black.
ref. Nissen (ZBI) 3519. - Landwehr, VOC, 591. - STCN.