- Volume 1 : Book I : Containing all sorts of trees, that bear edible fruits, and are husbanded by people. 548 pp. (122 b/w ills., 4 color tip-in p.); Volume 2 : Book II: containing the aromatic trees: being those that have aromatic fruits, barks or redolent wood. Book III: containing those trees, which produce some resin, notable flowers, or hurtful milk. Book IV: containing the wild trees that provide timber. 688 pp. (183 b/w ills.); Volume 3 : Book V: dealing with the remaining wild trees in no particular order. Book VI: concerning shrubs, domesticall and wild. Book VII: containing the forest ropes and creeping shrubs. 720 pp. (211 b/w ills.); Volume 4 : Book VIII: Containing potherbs used for food, medicine, and sport, Book IX: Concerning bindweeds, as well as twining and creeping plants. 624 pp. (138 b/w ills.); Volume 5 : Book X: concerning wild plants, at random. Book XI: deals with the remaining wild plants. Book XII: concerning the little sea trees, and stony sea growths, which resemble plants. Auctuarium, or augmentation of The Ambonese Herbal. 640 pp. (136 b/w ills.); Volume 6 : Species List and Indexes for Volumes 1-5. 144 pp. Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius (1627-1702), aassiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple uses, he succeeded in creating a cultural and scientific treasury of incomparable value for today’s botanists, anthropologists, ethnobotanists, science historians, medicinal chemists, and other scholars. This comprehensive reference, complete with over 800 original illustrations, describes in remarkable detail more than 2,000 plants, their habitats, and their economic and medicinal uses. Also recorded are native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch, and Ambonese—and often in Macassarese and Chinese as well. E. M. Beekman's introduction discusses the Herbal’s significance for tropical botanical literature and surveys the Indonesian economic and medicinal uses of the plants Rumphius described. Beekman also provides invaluable annotations throughout the Herbal.