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The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 4 / Book VIII: Containing Potherbs Used for Food, Medicine, and Sport; Book IX: Concerning Bindweeds, as well as Twining and Creeping Plants wijn pictorial satiristOver the course of five decades, the seventeenth century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously 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.