Signatures: [maltese cross]6 A-H2 I-V4 X2 Y-2B4 2C-2G2(-2G2).
Errata: p. 182.
Author further identified on p. [9] as Fra Donato d'Eremita di Rocca d'Evandro dell'ordine di San Domenico.
Decorative initials and head-pieces; text printed within double frame of rules.
Illustrations: 20 engravings, including historiated engraved t.p. Each of the 19 plates, bound in at the end, consists of an engraving showing distillation or other process and requisite equipment, an engraved description below and one of the five different elaborately engraved architectural frames on the other three sides. The border on plates 2, 5, 9, 13 and 17 contains the author's name and device, giving rise to the speculation that he may have executed the illustrations.
Includes: Tavola delle varie infirmata, secondo il linguaggio Arabica, Greco, e Latina, p. 133-166; Tavola de gli scrittori di medicina e di chirugia Arabi, Greco, Latini, e Italiani, p. 166-168; and Osservazioni intorno a' semplici della ricetta dell'elixir vitae, p. 169-181.
Copy 1. Final leaf 2G2 (blank) missing (present in Copy 2). Copy 2. Illustrations: five 4-leaf quires, the last with a final blank leaf surviving only in this copy. Figure 2 (Maltese cross) missigned or failed to print. Copy 3. Wanting leaves 2D-2G. Copy 4. Bound in 18th century calf, gilt rolled decoration on boards, rebacked, marbled endpapers. On front pastedown: bookplate of Thos. Gaisford. On both front and back pastedowns: booklabel of Charles F. Cox, New York. Final leaf 2G2 (blank) missing (present in Copy 2).
