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Journal et procès verbaux du quatrième voyage aerien de m. Blanchard, : parti de Chelsea, le 16 octobre, 1784, à midi neuf minutes, accompagné, jusqu'à Sunbury, par le sieur J. Sheldon, professeur d'anatomie, et membre de la Société royale de londres: et, seul, de Sunbury, à Rumsey, dans la province d'Hampshire. : Dédié, avec permission, à sa grace my lord duc de Northumberland.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1774 Cou (b.w.) Af.411.4 (Franklin)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809 13880
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Sheldon, John, 1752-1808--95515.
- Sheldon, John.
- Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809--13880.
- Blanchard, Jean-Pierre.
- Balloon ascensions--68162.
- Balloon ascensions.
- Balloonists--Great Britain--Personal narratives.
- Balloonists.
- Physical Description:
- 4, 26 p. ; 26 cm. (4to)
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Imprimé aux dépens de l'auteur, à Londres, par Galabin et Baker, Ingram-Court, Fenchurch-Street, et se vend chez mm. P. Elmsley, Strand; R. Baldwin, Paternoster-row; J. Debrett, Piccadilly; R. Faulder, New Bond-street; & W. Babbs, Oxford-streeet.,., MDXXLCCCIV. [1784]
- Notes:
- The journal of the voyage written by Jean Pierre Blanchard.
- Published also in English at London in the same year and place.
- Local Notes:
- Benjamin Franklin's copy.
- HSP in LCP.
- Bound with Court de Gébelin, Lettre, q.v.; item 4 in volume. Modern half sheep over contemporary marbled boards; bound with other items. MS table of contents on flyleaf in William Temple Franklin's hand; purchased from Dufief, 1801-03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (4); sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- HSP copy has MS. signature of author at end of dedication.
- Cited in:
- ESTC (BL) N010241
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