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The principles, history, & use, of air-balloons : also, a prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & Baker's intended aerial voyage from the city of New-York : New-York, printed by C.C. Van Alen for J. Fellows, 1796
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Ra.13
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Photostat americana. Second series ... / photostated at the Massachusetts Historical Society ; no. 84.
- Photostat americana. Second series ... / photostated at the Massachusetts Historical Society ; no. 84
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Balloons.
- Balloon ascensions.
- Local Subjects:
- Balloons.
- Balloon ascensions.
- Physical Description:
- 46 p., plates : facsim. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Boston, 1939]
- Notes:
- Plate bound as frontispiece in Library of Congress copy of original.
- One of 15 copies from the original in the Boston public library, June, 1839.
- "List of Mr. Blanchard's aerial voyages": p. 40-41.
- Includes a copy of the proclamation written by Washington and presented by him to Blanchard on his flight from Philadelphia, Jan. 9, 1793.
- Local Notes:
- Signatures: leaf (t.-p.) unsigned, A-C[superscript 6], D[superscript 4].
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