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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. By Monsieur Thevenot. Done out of French. To which is prefixed a prefatory discourse concerning artificial swimming, ...
Thévenot, M. (Melchisedech), 1620?-1692.Date: [1764]- Books
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The swimming lady: or, a wanton discovery.
Date: [1760?]- Books
Twenty years working of the electrolytic disinfectant plant of Poplar : uses and stability of the fluid, swimming bath water pollution & purification / by Fredk. Wm. Alexander.
Alexander, Fredk. Wm. (Frederick William)Date: [1925]- Books
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The sky-Lark: containing a new, elegant, and much more numerous collection of well chosen English songs, than any book hitherto published; ranged in alphabetical order. To which are added, I. A large collection of toasts, Sentiments, and Hob-Nobs. II. A new and correct List of all the Free-Mason's Lodges in Europe; with the Time of their Institution, and Days of Meeting. III. The Art of Swimming, Diving, and Floating; by which any Person may learn to swim, without further Instruction. IV. A concise Account of all Sorts of River and Pond Fish, the best Baits, and the surest Method of taking them. V. Rules and laws to be observed at the game of cricket, as settled at the most respectable Meetings.
Date: [1772]- Books
21 miles : swimming in search of the meaning of motherhood / Jessica Hepburn.
Hepburn, JessicaDate: 2018- Books
In the swim : the origins and systematic development of swimming in the county of Surrey's elementary schools 1905-1921 pioneered by Major Arthur Ormand Norman : a documentary history with various appendices including swimming and washing verminous children in the London School Board / by J Robert Pegg MA (Ed) History of Education (1870-1939), MA (Ed) Curriculum Studies, Chairman, Ealing Primary Schools' Football Association 1998-2003.
Pegg, J. RobertDate: [2017]- Books
Sports centres & swimming pools : a study of their design with particular reference to the needs of the physically disabled / sponsored by the Thistle Foundation, Edinburgh.
Walter, Felix.Date: 1971- Books
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Animal locomotion, or, walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics / by J. Bell Pettigrew.
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908.Date: 1873- Books
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Remarks on baths, water, swimming, shampooing, heat, hot, cold and vapor baths / By M.L. Este.
Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864.Date: 1812- Books
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Animal locomotion, or, walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics / by J. Bell Pettigrew.
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908.Date: 1874- Books
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Remarks on baths : water, swimming, shampooing, heat, hot, cold, and vapor baths / by M.L. Este.
Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864.Date: 1812- Books
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Animal locomotion or walking, swimming, and flying : with a dissertation on aëronautics / by J. Bell Pettigrew.
Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908.Date: 1873- Books
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Remarks on baths : water, swimming, shampooing, heat, hot, cold, and vapour baths / by M.L. Este.
Este, M. L. (Michael Lambton), 1779-1864.Date: 1845- Books
[Review of: Animal locomotion, or, Walking, swimming and flying : a dissertation on aeronautics / by J. Bell Pettigrew].
Date: 1874- Books
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Strength : how to get strong and keep strong with chapters on rowing and swimming, fat, age, and the waist / by Richard A. Proctor.
Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888.Date: 1889- Books
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Physical training; junior course : Swedish exercises, games, swimming, diving, life-saving / Written by an officer of the regular army and edited by E. John Solano.
Solano, E. JohnDate: 1913- Books
Manual of physical exercises : comprising gymnastics, rowing, skating, fencing, cricket, calisthenics, sailing, swimming, sparring, baseball. Together with rules for training and sanitary suggestions / by William Wood.
Wood, William (Screenwriter)Date: 1867- Books
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The art of swimming, made safe, easy, pleasant, and healthful. To which are added, cautions to learners, and advice to bathers, by the late celebrated Dr. Benjamin Franklin.
Date: [1830?]- Books
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A treatise on the virtues of cold and warm bathing; with general instructions, in the art of swimming. Together with a description of Lady-well Baths in Birmingham.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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Manual of physical exercises : comprising gymnastics, rowing, skating, fencing, cricket, calisthenics, sailing, swimming, sparring, base ball : together with rules for training and sanitary suggestions / by William Wood.
Wood, William, of New York.Date: 1870- Books
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Ars nova natandi, or, New swimming girdles : that will safely support a man from drowning, in any kind of water; with many other conveniencies. By Francis Cruys, gent.
Cruys, FrancisDate: 1698- Books
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An Index to the Indian closset : which contains severall foreign creatures, and plants swimming in balsamick liquours as if now aliue : to be seen in the garden of the Academy of Leyden.
Date: Printed 1688- Books
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The young man's new universal companion; or, gentleman's pocket intelligencer. Containing, I The Principles of the English Language; Directions for Writing; Specimens of Letters; Forms of Address; and Rules for Penmanship. II Forms of Wills and Deeds; Notes, Receipts, Bills of Parcels and Book Debts, with many other Mercantile Matters, as Shipping, Invoices, and the Nature of Exports and Imports. III. Arithmetic in general; Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of Roots, and their Uses; Duodecimals and their Application to Artificers' Works; Board and Timber Measure. IV. Chronology and Geometry, with some of their most useful Problems; Plain Trigonometry; the Geography of Maps; Navigation and Astronomy, including a full Account of the Georgium Sidus, or New Planet. Dialling, with the newly invented Pocket Card-Dial. The colouring of Dial-Boards, and preparing Colours for beautifying Maps, &c. V. The Mensuration of superficial and solid Bodies. Easy Methods of surveying Land-Cask Gauging. Information to Custom-House Officers. VI. Directions for Swimming. Recovery of Drowned Persons. To estimate the Value of Life and Leasehold Estates upon two or three Lives, &c. &c. By the late Mr. D. Fenning, Author of the Universal Spelling Book, Ready Reckoner, Young Man's Book of Knowledge, New Grammar of the English Tongue, &c. &c.
Fenning, Daniel.Date: 1800- Books
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A sermon upon witchcraft. Occasion'd by a late illegal attempt to discover witches by swimming. Preach'd at Twyford, in the county of Leicester, July 11, 1736. By Joseph Juxon, Vicar of Twyford and Hungarton.
Juxon, Joseph, -1757.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
Leap in : a woman, some waves and the will to swim / Alexandra Heminsley.
Heminsley, Alexandra, 1976-Date: 2017