250- THEVENOT (Melchisédech). The Art of swimming, with advice on how to bathe usefully. Preceded by a dissertation, in which the science of the Ancients in the art of swimming is developed, the importance of this exercise, & the usefulness of bathing, either in health or in illness. Decorated with XXIII figures, which represent all the attitudes of this art. New edition, revised, corrected, & considerably increased. By M. P. D. L. C. A. A. P. Paris, Servière, 1786, in-12, marbled fawn basane, smooth spine decorated, blue speckled edges (period binding). Last edition of the Ancien Régime, and the fifth since the first publication in 1696. 22 plates and frontispiece in the supplement. FOLLOWING: Supplement to the IVth edition of the Art of swimming, with advice for useful bathing. Paris, Lamy, 1782, 12 pp. with a frontispiece engraved by Martinet.