Nekrokēdeia
Subtitle: or, The art of embalming
By: wherein is shewn the right [sic] 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.  Also some new matter propos'd concerning a better method of embalming than hath hitherto been discover'd.  And a pharmacopoeia Galeno-chymica, anatomia sicca sive incruenta, &c.  In three parts ...  By Thomas Greenhill, surgeon.
Contributors: Petiver, James, d. 1718 (autopgraph)
Publisher: The Author
Published: 1705
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Embalming; Burial; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Egypt; Mummies
Other titles: The art of embalming
Notes: Part I (all that was published) has subtitle: Wherein is shewn the right of burial, and funeral ceremonies, especially that of preserving bodies after the Egyptian method.  Together with an account of the Egyptian mummies, pyramids, subterranean vaults and lamps, and their opinion of the metempsychosis, the cause of their embalming.  As also a geographical description of Egypt ...

Ex libris James Petiver, with his signature on t.p.