ENGLISH BINDING. NOYADES. DROWNING RESCUE. The Forty-eighth annual report of the Royal Humane Society for the recovery of Persons apparently drowned or dead, London, Printed for the Society, 1822 Contemporary full tan calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and motifs, red morocco title-pieces, gilt garland framing a cold cloisonné motif and gilt stippling on the boards, gilt roulettes on the chasses, marbled endpapers and edges. [3]-LXXI-35-[32]-86 pp. with numerous engravings in text. Uncommon. In an attractive small contemporary English binding. Annual report of an English learned society forming a small socio-historical curiosity on the progress of drowning rescue methods, as well as the preoccupation with drowning, its causes and cures, envisaged at the beginning of the 19th century. The first rescue societies, as well as the first real advances such as awareness of the notion of the notion of emergency appeared in the 18th century. Expert: Ms. Aude de Sèvedavy. Includes in particular a section (unpaginated) on Captain Manby's method of Rescuing shipwrecked persons, with numerous small explanatory engravings in-t. Also an alphabetical list of the Society's subscribers and accounts for 1821. Some wetness to binding, slight wear from use, duplicate pages bound in in place of 8 missing pages, but a good copy.