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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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Item No. 55. 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); same as no. 54 with engraved calling card for "Mr. Charles Green, Aerial Cottage, Highgate."] 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 1331.
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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. 35:1. Jean Pierre Blanchard. The first Aerial Mariner, Citizen of Calais, & Pensioer of the French King, born at Andely in Normandy, the 4th. July, 1753. …
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[print; portrait of French aeronaut and parachute inventor Jean Pierre Francois Blanchard (1753-1809)] Artist(s): R. Livesay; J. Newton. Printer /Publisher text: "March 24, 1785 Pubd. For the Proprietor, by S. Hooper, No. 212, High-Holborn, London." From Maggs Bros. catalog no. 387, Item 1321.
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