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The art of swimming : with advice for bathing, to which is prefixed a prefatory discourse concerning artificial swimming, or keeping one's self above water by several small portable engines, in cases of danger : illustrated with forty proper copper-plate cuts, which represent the different postures necessary to be used in that art / by Monsieur Thévenot.

Accession number
PML 151278
Creator
Thévenot, Melchisédec, 1620-1692.
Published
London : Printed for John Lever, 1764.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
Translation of: L'Art de nager.
Description
[xix], 59 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill ; 16 cm
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Boards.
Classification
Department