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Item No. 48. La Montagne accouchant d'une souris ou la Prophetie accomplie dans le Luxembourg ... Nouvelle Facon de Voler par Mrs. Miolan et Janinet …
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Item No. 36. Aerostation out at the elbows or the Itinerant Aeronaut
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[print, color; caricature of Vincenzo Lunardi by Rowlandson, 1786, with 8 lines of verse] Artist(s): Rowlandson. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1337.
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Item No. 47. Tentand via est qua me quoque possim Tollere humo Virgil Geor: ; He steers his flight A loft incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight Par. Lost
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[print, color; caricature with verse in English from Paradise Lost and verse in Latin from Virgil's Georgics and French verse; image includes Lord Grenville in ascending balloon; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 33] Artist(s): James Gillray. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1439.
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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. 23. Expérience aréostatique. Exécutée dans le Champ-de-Mars a Paris le 7bre. 1812 par Mr. Degen mécanicien de Vienne en Autriche. …
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[print] Artist(s): Fourmy. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1396.
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Item No. 50. F. Arban, Aereonauta. 2d. Ascension. Madrid. 7 de Noviembre de 1847
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[print; portrait of French aeronaut Francois Arban (1815-1849)] Artist(s): Perez Herms. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1318.
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Item No. 10. Total destruction of the great Montgolfier Balloon, and Riot in the Surry Zoological Gardens, May 24, 1838
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[print] From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1417.
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