BEEKMAN, E.M. (editor). The Poison Tree Selected Writings of Rumphius on the Natural History of the Indies.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts, (1981). First edition.
Cloth, (260)pp.
Fine in d/w.
This is the first English language publication of selections of Rumphius (1628-1702) writings on tropical flora, shellfish, minerals, and precious stones found in the colonial Dutch East Indies." $85 CAD