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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- Books
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A Mock heroic epistle. To citizen Campenas, hydraulic engineer at Paris. On his proposed invasion of Great Britain, in a fleet of balloons.
Date: 1797- Pictures
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A balloon flies over a park with marquees and bunting where crowds of people are gathered. Coloured lithograph.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 36443i- Books
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My life and balloon experiences : with a supplementary chapter on military ballooning / By Henry Coxwell.
Coxwell, Henry Tracey, 1819-1900.Date: 1887-89- Pictures
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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- Pictures
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A hot-air balloon in flight with a fire burning. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 36339i- Books
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Artificial fireworks, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecaedrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Pots Pumps Rain-Falls Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees, &c. With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gun-Powder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, corrected. With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and three large Copper Plates. By Captain Jones. Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, For Sea and Land Service, His Tables for Sea and Land Cannon, which may save above 100,000?. a Year, by diminishing the Weight of the Guns, the Labour of Men, the Quantity of Powder in charging, from 1-half to 1-3d, 1-4th, and even to 1-5th.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Pictures
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A balloon piloted by Charles Green crash-lands on Pirbright Common, Surrey, in 1852. Coloured wood engraving.
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Commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by having it pulled by horses. Coloured etching, ca. 1785.
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Paris seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph, 1846, by J. Arnout.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: 1st. February 1846Reference: 36437i- Pictures
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Orléans seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: 1st. February 1846Reference: 36439i- Pictures
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Rouen seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by J. Arnout after himself.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: 25 March 1846Reference: 36440i- Pictures
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A hydrogen balloon flying high above the clouds with the sun shining on it. Coloured wood engraving.
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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.
Doyle, John, 1797-1868.Date: 22 October 1836Reference: 36543iPart of: HB sketches- Pictures
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Westminster and surrounding areas of London seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: 1840-1849Reference: 36436i- Pictures
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Ballooning: four figures. Coloured engraving by Garner.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 36295i- Pictures
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Four commedia dell'arte characters are raising a balloon by winching it up with ropes. Process print.
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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- Pictures
A man selling balloons to children at a fair; people walking uphill; a golf course; road signs etc. Gouache by G. Bonwick and pencil by J. Robinson, 1966.
Bonwick, Gillian, active approximately 1966.Date: [1966]Reference: 2913488iPart of: Adamson Collection- Books
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The Balloon almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1787.
Date: [1786]- Pictures
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Le Havre seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself.
Arnout, Jules, 1814-1868.Date: XReference: 36442i- Pictures
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Large crowds of people have gathered to watch a hot-air balloon take off. Coloured wood engraving.
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A balloon race from London to Hampshire, 1880. Coloured wood engraving, 1880.
Date: [1880]Reference: 36424i- Books
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The balloon, or Aerostatic Spy, a novel, containing a series of adventures of an aerial traveller; Including a Variety of Histories and Characters in real Life. In two volumes. ...
Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Pictures
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The basket of a balloon with two men inside, and an engine with propellors. Wood engraving by E.A Tilly.
Tilly, E. A.Reference: 36327i