Title in red and black

Head- and tail-pieces; initials

A woodcut decorative wreath border, with motto "Nullius in verba", appears on the verso of the t.p

Errors in paging

Signatures: )(A-2O

Errata on p. [1] (3rd group)

Final leaf is blank (wanting in Dibner Library copy)

"Dissertationes epistolicae" has special half-title (p. [113])

Text, p. 197-203, and plate VI, describe use of the moxa in gout

Text includes as Appendix I, p. 225-268, the De sexu plantarum epistola of R.J. Camerarius, first published separately in Tubingen, 1694, the first experimental proof of sexual activity and pollination in plants; cf. Printing and the mind of man, 165

Includes index

(From t.p.) Fabae S. Ignatii -- Ipecacuanha -- Pedra del porco -- China chinae -- Clyster tabacinus -- Panacea gallorum

Dibner Library. Heralds of Science (1980 ed.)

SCDIRB copy is bound with: Valentini, M.B. [Declamationes panegyricae]. Francofurti ad Moenum : Sumptibus Johannis Davidis Zunneri, MDCCI [1701]. Bound together subsequent to publication

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB copy has a contemporary blind-tooled full vellum binding with title inked on spine

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