Item No. 8. Coelum ipsum pelimus studitia

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  Item No. 46. Since air Ballooning is the Ton, among the Higher Folk / A Middle Class may take it up and Turn it to a Joke. / And a joking we will go &c / By Complaisance and French Balloons, Gay Gallias Flighty Sons … This World like Keegans Huge Balloon is nothing but a Bubble."

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  [print; caricature with verse; "The English Balloon 1784"--text on balloon] From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1433.

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  Item No. 7. All on Fire -- or the Doctors disappointed. A view taken in Lord Foley's Garden, Sept. 29, 1784

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  [print; image of a burning balloon; same image as RB 10015, Item No. 13] Printer/Publisher text: "London, published Oct. 20, 1784 by E. Wyatt" From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1377.

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  Item No. 56. Vincent Lunardi Esqr

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  [print; portrait of Italian-English aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi (1759-1806)] Printer/Publisher text: "Publish'd Sepr. 30 1784 by John Walker." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1333.

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  Item No. 29. Patern [sic] for a lady's pocket

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  [print; embroidery pattern with handwritten note "Lunardi the first ascent in England Sept. 1784"; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 25:2] Artist(s): Alexander Hogg. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1338.

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  Item No. 25. A representation of M: Blanchards balloon & apparatus

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  [print] Artist(s): C. Heydinger. Printer /Publisher text: "Publish'd Septr. 14th 1784 by C. Heydinger Queen's Court Great Queen St. Lincolns Inn Fields." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1455.

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  Item No. 31. Mr. Hampton's safety parachute, in which he made his first descent from the Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham, Oct. 3rd. 1838, and the second descent from the Baron de Berengers Cremorne House, Chelsea, Thursday June 13th. 1839

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  [print with vignettes of the ascent and descent of John Hampton (1799?-1871) in the Albion balloon] Artist(s): N. Whittock. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1419.

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