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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.

Date

22 October 1836

Reference

36543i

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HB sketches

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

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]

Paris seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph, 1846, by J. Arnout.

Date

1st. February 1846

Reference

36437i

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

Date

1796

Le grand ballon captif à vapeur de M. Henry Giffard : cour des Tuileries--Paris, 1878 / Gaston Tissandier ; avec de nombreuses illustrations par Albert Tissandier.

Date

Juillet 1878

William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1810.

Date

Publish'd Aug.t 1810

Reference

2496779i

The air balloon: or a treatise on the aerostatic globe, lately invented by the celebrated Mons. Montgolfier of Paris. Shewing, First-Those Properties of Air, which influence an Air Balloon. 2dly-The particular Construction and Methods of filling it. 3dly-Some of the great Variety of probable Uses which this important Discovery may be applied to for the Benefit of Mankind.

Date

MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]

Men on horseback with swords are chasing a balloon in the sky. Coloured wood engraving by Smeeton after Forrvielle.

Reference

36297i

Saint-Cloud, Boulogne, and the Pont de Saint-Cloud over the Seine, seen from a balloon. Coloured lithograph by Jules Arnout after himself, 1846.

Date

1st February 1846

Reference

36441i