A choice manual, or, Rare and select secrets in physick and chirurgery. Collected, and practised by the right honourable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased : Whereto are added several experiments of the virtues of Gascon pouder, and lapis contra yarvam, by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite wayes of preserving, conserving, candying, &c.
- Kent, Elizabeth Grey, Countess of, 1581-1651
- Date:
- 1659
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Also known as
Rare and select secrets in physick and chirurgery
Publication/Creation
London : printed by Gartrude Dawson, and are to be sold by Will. Shears, 1659.
Physical description
18 unnumbered pages, 258 pages, 26 unnumbered pages, 154 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait
Contributors
Edition
The eleventh edition with additions.
References note
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996) K313
Notes
"A true gentlewomans delight. Wherein is contained all manner of cookery" has separate dated title page with separate pagination; register is continuous.
Includes indexes.
Frontis. = plate.
Reproduction of original in the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 2533:21) s1999 miun s