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Item No. 64. Mrs. Sage : The first English Female Aerial Traveller, who ascended with Mr. Biggin, in Mr. Lunardi's Balloon, from St. George's Fields June 29th 1785 …
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Item No. 34:2. Mrs. Sage, The first Female Aerial Traveller Ascended from St. George's Fields, June 29, 1785. Mr. Biggin, a favorite English Aerial Traveller Ascended from St. George's Fields, June 29, 1785
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[print; two vignettes of portraits of Mrs. Sage and George Biggin] Artist(s): Thornton. Printer /Publisher text: "Published by Alexr. Hogg at the Kings Arms N. 16 Paternoster Row, Nov. 1. 1785." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1351.
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Item No. 34:1. Mr. Biggin, a favorite English Aerial Traveller Ascended from St. George's Fields, June 29, 1785
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[print; portrait of George Biggin (active 1785)] Artist(s): [Thornton]. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1493?.
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Item No. 30. [Vincent Lunardi in his basket ready to ascend]
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[illustration from John Kay's Series of Original Portraits, Vol. 1; same image as RB 10015, Item no. 38:2] Artist(s): John Kay. Printer /Publisher text: "Kay Fec.t 1785" From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1335.
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Item No. 58. Mr. McQuire : On the 12th of May 1785 ascended in a balloon from Dublin and was driven out to sea where he was picked up by a vessel almost perished and spent with swimming
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[print; portrait of Irish aeronaut and army officer Richard McGuire (active 1785)] From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1340.
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Item No. 41. The Great Montgolfier or Fire Balloon. Drawn on the Spot at the Surry Zoological Gardens
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[print] Printer/Publisher text: "Published by J. Follit, 15, Catherine St. Strand." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1415.
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Item No. 54. Mr. Charles Green, Aeronaut. Born Jany. 31st. 1785. First ascended on the 19th. July 1821, at the Coronation of King George the 4th, since which he has made up to this date July 9th. 1839. Two-hundred and Sixty-nine ascents
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[print; portrait of English aeronaut Charles Green (1785-1870)] Artist(s): G. P. Harding. Printer /Publisher text: "Pubd. July 9th. 1839, by G.P. Harding, Hercules Buildings, Lambeth. Day & Haghe, Lithrs. To the Queen." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1332.
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