Edited by Caspar Bauhin; portrait of the editor on leaf 2*6 verso. Dioscorides translated from the Greek by Jean Ruel. Mattioli's commentary printed in italics.
Imprint from separate t.p. for the Apologia.
Signatures: pi1 ⁴ 2⁶ b-i⁶ A-4Q⁶ 4R⁸ 4S-4S⁴ AA-TT⁶ VV-XX⁴.
Engraved t.p. with historiated architectural border.
Numbers 467-468 repeated in first numbered sequence of pagination.
De ratione distillandi aquas ex omnibus plantis has separate half title; text on unnumbered pages begins on verso followed by the index to Dioscorides. Aplologia in Amatum Lusitanum has separate t.p., pagination, and signature sequence.
Includes indexes.
LC copy has some worming, slightly affecting text.