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Item No. 5. Sic transit gloria mundi
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Item No. 34. The Montgolfier, a first rate of the French Aerial Navy
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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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Item No. 12. The Flight of the Intellect. : Portrait of Mr. Golightly, experimenting on Mess. Quick & Speed's new patent, high pressure, Steam Riding Rocket
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[print, color; caricature; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 35:2.] Artist(s): G. E. Madeley. Printer /Publisher text: "G.E. Madeley Lith, 3 Wellington St. Strand." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1441.
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