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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.
Date: [1877]Reference: 36393i
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Men on horseback with swords are chasing a balloon in the sky. Coloured wood engraving by Smeeton after Forrvielle.
Reference: 36297i
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A large balloon is hanging over the old town hall at Calais preparing for take-off. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 36345i
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The ascent of the balloon 'Zenith' above the clouds with its three occupants (Crocé-Spinelli, Tissandier and Sivel) conducting operations, 1875. Coloured wood engraving.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 36313i
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Ballooning: four figures. Coloured engraving by Garner.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 36295i- Books
Annals of some remarkable aërial and alpine voyages : including those of the author; to which are added, observations on the affections to which aerial and mountain travellers are liable, and an essay on the flight and migration of birds, the whole being intended as supplementary to "Researches about atmospheric phenomena" / By T. Forster.
Forster, T. (Thomas), 1789-1860.Date: 1832
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The balloon 'Saladin' is blown off course out to sea from Bridport. Coloured wood engraving by W. Wyllie after Captain Templer.
Templer, James, Captain, active 1881.Date: 1880-1889Reference: 36310i
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A fox ascends in a balloon, descends into a pit and walks off arm in arm with Lord North; representing Charles James Fox's coalition with Lord North under pressure from William Pitt the younger. Coloured etching, 1783.
Date: [29th. Decr. 1783]Reference: 36378i
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The view from a balloon on a flight over southern England in 1881. Coloured wood engraving after W.B. Murray, 1881.
Murray, William Bazett, active 1871-1890.Date: [1881]Reference: 36420i
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Vista from Benjamin Franklin's residence in Passy (Haute Savoie), showing a hot air ballon in full flight. Engraving with etching.
Reference: 555498i
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A voluminous woman crossing a bush in a circle of foliage to get to a latrine; perhaps representing Garnerin's London balloon flights of the time. Etching by J. Gillray, 1802.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815.Date: 3 August 1802Reference: 12192i
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Captain Temple and Walter Powell M.P. in the basket of the balloon 'Saladin', 1881. Coloured wood engraving.
Date: 1880-1889Reference: 36308i
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James Sadler setting off on the proposed first crossing of the Irish Sea from Dublin by balloon, 1812; with details of the hydrogen barrels and equipment. Engraving.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 36294i
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A balloon piloted by Charles Green crash-lands on Pirbright Common, Surrey, in 1852. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 36315i
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A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.
Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714.Reference: 26182i
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Men and dogs in an arctic landscape with three hot-air balloons: proposed method of reaching the North Pole by J.P. Cheyne. Coloured wood engraving by C. Roberts.
Date: [1879]Reference: 36403i
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Commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by having it pulled by horses. Coloured etching, ca. 1785.
Reference: 36353i
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Medicina simplex : or, The pilgrims waybook : being an enquiry into the moral and physical conditions of a health life and happy old age, with household prescriptions / by A physician.
Forster, T. (Thomas Ignatius Maria), 1789-1860.Date: 1832- Pictures
The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing a variety of subjects to learn, mythical figures, ballooning and pyramids. Engraving by A. Bell after Le Clerc.
Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714.Reference: 21486i
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A balloon race from London to Hampshire, 1880. Coloured wood engraving, 1880.
Date: [1880]Reference: 36424i
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The balloon "Royal Victoria" being launched at night by Charles Green at Vauxhall Gardens, London, watched by crowds of people. Wood engraving by Dalziel Brothers, 1878.
Date: 1878Reference: 36384i
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Crowds of people are watching in the streets as a balloon leaves the ground. Coloured etching after Char. de Lovinier.
Reference: 36350i
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Four commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by winching it up with ropes. Process print.
Reference: 36321i- Ephemera
Oversize ephemera. EPH+55.
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A balloon ascent by the Montgolfier brothers at Versailles in 1783 watched by a huge crowd. Coloured etching.
Reference: 36351i