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Item No. 33. Balloon
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Item No. 23. [Versailles]
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[print; vignette of large balloon over city square crowded with onlookers; title based on caption provided for same image in "Aerostation. Plate II" by A. Bell, RB 10015, Item no. 28:2]
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Item No. 5. Mr. Sadler's Ascent with Capt. Paget, from the Mermaid Gardens, Hackney, August 12th, 1811. Descended near Tilbury Fort, Essex
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[woodcut print; image of two men in an ascending balloon with a crowd of onlookers on the ground]
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Item No. 13. [Part of the Balloon in which Mr. (W.W.) Sadler ascended from Dublin, October 1, 1812]
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[print, color; proof before letters for "Part of the Balloon in which Mr. (W.W.) Sadler ascended from Dublin, October 1, 1812" showing Irish aeronaut Windham William Sadler (1796-1824); "Erin Go Brah"--text, banner on balloon in image.] Artist(s): [Robert Havell]. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1397.
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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. 17. Ascent and descent of Mr. Hampton's balloon and parachute, from the Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham, October 3rd. 1838
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[print; two panels with image of the ascent and descent of the balloon] Artist(s): G. Rowe. Printer /Publisher text: "Published by H. Davies, Cheltenham. Drawn, Lithographed & Printed, by G. Howe, Teacher of Drawing Cheltenham." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1418.
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Item No. 8. Coelum ipsum pelimus studitia
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[print; "The English Balloon, 1784"--text written on clown balloon's hat at upper left of image; same incident as pri470 Box 1, Item No. 7] From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1378.
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