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Item No. 36. Aerostation out at the elbows or the Itinerant Aeronaut
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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. 34. The Montgolfier, a first rate of the French Aerial Navy
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[print; caricature] Artist(s): Observator; Recordum [or Recordium]. From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1432.
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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. 4. Locomotion
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[print, color; caricature] Artist(s): Shortshanks [Cruickshank]. Printer /Publisher text: "London published by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1442.
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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. 5. Sic transit gloria mundi
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[print; caricature] From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1426.
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