TITLE: [Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning history from 1783 to 1883]

CONTENTS: No. 1. Les freres Montgolfier ... (1883) -- No. 2. 1re experience aerostatique a Annonay (1783) -- No. 3. Charles lance ... a Paris le premier aerostat (1783) -- No. 4. Premier voyage aerien ... Pilatre de Rozier et d'Arlandes (1783) -- No. 5. Premier voyage aerien ... par Charles et Robert (1783) -- No. 6. 1er essai de direction de ballons ...(1784 Guyton de Morveau) -- No. 7. Traversee en balon du Pas-de-Calais par Blanchard et Jefferies (1785) -- No. 8. Mort de Pilatre de Rozier et de Romain (1785) -- No. 9. Les Aerostiers de la premiere Republique -- No. 10. L'Entreprenant, ballon monte par Coutelle ... bataille de Fleurus.

MEDIUM: 10 prints (ephemera) (1 sheet) : chromolithograph.

CREATED/PUBLISHED: Paris : Romanet & cie., imp. edit., [between 1890 and 1900]

NOTES: Sheet of 10 uncut cards; individually numbered and issued as "Collection 476", "1re serie." Captions in French are printed on the verso of each card. Tissandier collection.

Prints & Photographs Division

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