Rumph, Georg Eberhard. Amboinische Raritäten-Camer or treatise of the stony animals called snails and mussels, translated from the Dutch by Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller and with additions from the best writers of conchyliology multiplied by Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz. Extensive text fragment. With copper title, 2 text coppers and 30 (instead of 33) copper plates. 36 x 23 cm. Leather d.c. (stronger signs of wear). Vienna, Krauß, 1766. Ebert 19609. Graesse VI/1, 192. Nissen, ZBI 3519. See Lesky 562. Wellcome IV, 589. – First German edition. Extensive text fragment with numerous leaf cracks, of the included 33 plates 30 are present. Georg Eberhard Rumph, born in 1627 in Hanau, went as a doctor to East India and died in 1706 as a consul and chief clerk on Amboina. – A little flaky, initially and finally also slightly moist, three of the boards with stained colours.