Nekrokēdeia: or, The art of embalming
Subtitle: wherein is shown the right of burial, the funeral ceremonies, and the several ways of preserving dead bodies in most nations of the world ; with an account of the particular opinions, experiments and inventions of modern physicians, surgeons, chymists and anatomists ... in three parts ...
By: by Thomas Greenhill, surgeon
Series: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine--Medical Heritage Library digitization project
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1705
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Mummies; Mortuary Practice; History; Embalming; Burial; Funeral rites and ceremonies
Other titles: Art of embalming
Notes: This work was to have consisted of three parts, but only the first was published by subscription; cf. DNB.

The first word of the title is transliterated from the Greek.

Part 1 has a separate t.p. dated 1705.

Includes a list of subscribers and an index.

Includes bibliographical references.

No restrictions on access.

ESTC T68902

Bookplate of Henry Rouse Viets.

Bound in full contemporary mottled calf, covers panelled and stamped in gilt, red leather label on spine lettered in gilt; rebacked.