Ballooning history from 1795 to 1846
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French collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1795 to 1846. Sheet of 10 uncut cards, individually captioned and numbered; issued as "Collection 476," "2ème série."
No. 1. Le Commandant Coutelle au siège de Mayence (1795) -- No. 2. Les utopies de la navigation aérienne au siècle dernier -- No. 3. Sébastien Lenormand fait la 1re expérience du parachute, Montpellier (1783) -- No. 4. Descente de Jacques Garnerin en parachute (1797) -- No. 5. Gay-Lussac et Biot a 4,000 mètres de Hauteur (1804) -- No. 6. Le Ballon du couronnement de Napoléon -- No. 7. Mort de Mme. Blanchard (1819) -- No. 8. Zambeccari et ses deux compagnons dans L'Adriatique (1804) -- No. 9. Mort de Harris (1824) -- No. 10. Arban est recueilli par des pècheurs Italiens (1846).
First published in Paris between 1890 and 1900.
Tags: Balloons, Cards, Collections, France, French, Aviation
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