A choice manual, or Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery: collected, & practised by the Right Honourable the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of the vertue of Gascon powder, and lapis contra yarvam by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite ways of preserving, conserving, candying &c.
- Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651
- Date:
- 1687
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Also known as
Choice manuall
Rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery.
Rare secrets in physick and chirurgery.
Publication/Creation
London : printed for H. Mortlock at the Phœnix in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1687.
Physical description
18 unnumbered pages, 190 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 191-233 pages, 27 unnumbered pages, 140 pages : portrait (metalcut)
Contributors
Edition
The nineteenth edition.
Notes
An edition of: A choice manuall.
"The epistle to the reader" is signed: W.J.
"A true gentlewomans delight" has separate dated title page and pagination; register is continuous.
Includes indexes.
Text is continuous despite pagination.
Leaves P5-P6 are torn at head, affecting pagination and text.
Reproduction of the original in the Glasgow University Library.
References note
Wing (2nd ed.) K317.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2072:20) s1999 miun s