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The Balloon almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1787.

The principles, history, & use, of air-balloons. Also, a prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & Baker's intended aerial voyage from the city of New-York.

Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793. Aethereum tranabit iter, quo numine Blanchard? Impavidus, fortem non timet Icariam.

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The Balloon almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1787.

The principles, history, & use, of air-balloons. Also, a prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & Baker's intended aerial voyage from the city of New-York.

Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793. Aethereum tranabit iter, quo numine Blanchard? Impavidus, fortem non timet Icariam.