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  • A balloon has descended on a village, much to the consternation of the inhabitants: a sheep is climbing out of the basket. Engraving by J. Lodge.
  • Pneumatics: scientific equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Emslie, 1850, after himself.
  • A balloon race from London to Hampshire, 1880. Coloured wood engraving, 1880.
  • A man flying above a church with wings and balloons attached to him. Coloured wood engraving, 1877.
  • Four men in the basket of a balloon with some equipment. Wood engraving by Smyth after a photograph by Mayall.
  • Orléans seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
  • A hot-air balloon with the visage of Daniel O'Connell carrying a basket of conservative ministers. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1836.
  • A hot-air balloon leaves the ground in driving rain. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Alter attitudes to AIDS / Liverpool & South Sefton Health Promotion Agency.
  • The balloon 'Saladin' is blown off course out to sea from Bridport. Coloured wood engraving by W. Wyllie after Captain Templer.
  • Paris seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph, 1846, by J. Arnout.
  • Le Havre seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
  • Alter attitudes to AIDS / Liverpool Health Promotion Agency.
  • John Hampton ascending in the balloon 'Albion' and descending by parachute in Cremorne Gardens, London. Wood engraving, 1839.
  • Westminster and surrounding areas of London seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
  • Alter attitudes to AIDS / Liverpool Health Promotion Agency.
  • Alter attitudes to AIDS / Liverpool & South Sefton Health Promotion Agency.
  • Hot-air balloons with some extra equipment, and a winged horse with a rider. Engraving by Lodge.
  • People gathered at the sea front, Weymouth: some are looking up and pointing to a hot-air balloon in the sky. Tinted lithograph.
  • A balloon piloted by Charles Green crash-lands on Pirbright Common, Surrey, in 1852. Coloured wood engraving.
  • Captain Temple and Walter Powell M.P. in the basket of the balloon 'Saladin', 1881. Coloured wood engraving.
  • People using advanced materials and modes of transport in the year 2000, some travelling in hot-air balloons, some with their own wings, and some in carriages running on steam. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A balloon ascent by the Montgolfier brothers at Versailles in 1783 watched by a huge crowd. Coloured etching.
  • A flying boat devised by Franciscus Lana, with sails and balloons attached to it, and with three men as passengers. Engraving after J.C. Sturm, 1789.
  • French savants huddled together at the top of a column, while a band of Bedouin Arabs set fire to it below; exaggerating the troubled experience of the 'Commission des Sciences et des Arts' during Napoleon's invasion of Egypt. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1799.
  • A man with a balloon and rudders strapped to him. Engraving by P. Rothwell after De Bruyn.
  • A hot-air balloon in flight with a fire burning. Coloured engraving.
  • The Great Industrial Exhibition, Dublin, 1853: a hot-air balloon flies above. Lithograph.
  • Rouen seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by J. Arnout after himself.
  • Three balloons travel over a polar landscape: proposed method of reaching the North Pole by J.P. Cheyne. Coloured wood engraving by C. Roberts, 1877.