THEVENOT, Melchisedec. The Art of Swimming. Illustrated by Forty proper copper-plate cuts, which represent the different postures necessary to be used in that art. With advice for bathing, London: John Lever, 1764, 12°, second edition, engraved frontispiece and 39 plates by B. Warren (laminated repair to recto of inner margin of frontispiece, a few clean short marginal tears, one closed, occasional light marginal thumb-soiling), later boards with (?) original label to front cover (recased with new endpapers, front cover slightly faded), partly uncut.

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THEVENOT, Melchisedec. The Art of Swimming. Illustrated by Forty proper copper-plate cuts, which represent the different postures necessary to be used in that art. With advice for bathing, London: John Lever, 1764, 12°, second edition, engraved frontispiece and 39 plates by B. Warren (laminated repair to recto of inner margin of frontispiece, a few clean short marginal tears, one closed, occasional light marginal thumb-soiling), later boards with (?) original label to front cover (recased with new endpapers, front cover slightly faded), partly uncut.