(Lifesaving, Shipwrecks.) 'The Forty-Eighth Annual Report of...

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(Lifesaving, Shipwrecks.) 'The Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the Royal Humane Society, for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned or Dead. 1822; The Forty-Ninth Annual Report...1823', London, For the Society, 1822-23, 2 volumes, lxxi,86pp; liv,115pp, numerous b/w vignette woodcut illustrations in text, content/ills. includes Captain Manby's Method of Rescuing Shipwrecked Persons, methods of treatment of the drowned, apparatus for resuscitation, Lieut. Rogers lifesaving raft etc, plus reports, lists of subscribers, contemporary St. Thomas's Hospital Library bookplates, uniform contemporary half calf gilt worn (2)