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Résumé historique de l'aérostation

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Description: Colored engraving of 83 views of all kinds of flying machines and balloons from Lena's balloon (1638) to Godard (1851), with 6 columns of text "Expériences de locomotion sérienne" below engraving.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1851?]
Call number: 206403
Provenance: Purchased from Maggs Bros., 1920, cat. 387, item no. 1484.
Dimensions: 48 x 67 cm
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Résumé historique de l'aérostation

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[broadside; color engraving of more than 80 views of all kinds of flying machines and balloons from 1638 to 1851, with 6 columns of text "Expériences de locomotion sérienne" below engraving]

RB 206403

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Navigation aérienne (Etude pratiquel) : Encyclopedie Bouasse-Lebel No. 172

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[broadside with colored engraving showing 40 different types of balloons, with descriptive text below and list of balloons that left Paris during the siege 1870-1, text signed "W. de Fonvielle"] Artist(s): W. de Fonvielle. Printer /Publisher text: "Bouasse-Lebel. Imp. Edit. 28 et 29. rue St. Sulpice Paris."

RB 206397

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[Collection of original drawings, engravings, broadsides, posters, programs, songs, etc. relating to aeronautics

Rare Books

These two portfolio boxes contain approximately 200 items that form part of the prints and ephemera of the Huntington Library Aeronautica Collection. The images and texts within this collection include illustrations, diagrams, and descriptions of balloons and parachutes, balloon ascents, descents, and accidents; portraits of aeronauts; and political cartoons and fanciful or documentary pictures that incorporate depictions of balloons, airships, and flying machines. The collection features prints chronicling the progression of early aeronautical history from the first manned balloon ascent launched by French brothers Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in 1783, to the well-publicized ascents of famed English balloonist Charles Green in the mid 1800s.

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Balloon brand packed by the Hanford Raisin & Dried Fruit Packing Co. Hanford, Cal

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Image of a Balloon Brand raisin label from the Hanford Raisin & Dried Fruit Packing Company of Hanford, California; a bunch of grapes stands in for helium balloons lifting a hot air balloon basket filled with people over a river landscape with sail boats and steamboats visible below.

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Fireworks! Fireworks!

Visual Materials

Image of a pamphlet by retailer Austin, Nichols & Co. listing different types of fireworks, firecrackers, meteoric balloons, pistols, and more gun powder related products for sale. Towards the top center of the left page is an image titled "The New Excelsior Illuminating Meteoric Balloon - Inflating and Firework Attachments." The image depicts a hot-air balloon shown flying up, surrounded by lit fireworks.

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Tableau d'aviation représentant tout ce qui a ét ́fait de remarquable sur la navigation aérienne sans ballons d'après les documents extraits de la collection de M. le Dr. Hureau de Villeneuve / pat E. Dieuaide, auteur du Tableau des mouvements de mécanique, pour faciliter les études

Visual Materials

[broadside; Paris : Imp. Coulbeuf; large engraving showing the most important (fifty-three) types of flying machines, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci (A.D. 1500) and ending with Edison in 1880] Artist(s): E. Dieuaide.

RB 206401

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