Photographies

The Art of Swimming

Thévenot Melchisédec (author)
Barth Warren Sculp (engraver)

1764
8.0 x 5.3 cm
GV 837 T42 1764

The Art of Swimming was published before the discovery of photography and includes engravings as a means of circulating knowledge. As explained by the subtitle, the book contains "forty proper copper-plate cuts, which represent the different postures necessary to be used in that art, with advice for bathing."