Balloons
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The principles, history & use, of air-balloons . Also, a prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & Barker's intended aerial voyage from the city of New-York 1796.
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809.Date: 1796- E-books
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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.
Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809.Date: M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]- E-books
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Alter et idem, a new review, No.I. For a summer month in 1794
Date: 1794- E-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]- E-books
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Breslaw's last legacy or, the magical companion: containing all that is curious, pleasing, entertaining, and Comical; Selected From the most celebrated Masters of Deception; As well with Slight of Hand, As with Mathematical Inventions. Wherein is displayed, The Mode and Manner of deceiving the Eye, as practised by those celebrated Masters of Mirthful Deceptions. Including the various Exhibitions of those wonderful Artists, Breslaw, Sieur Comus, Jonas, &c. Also the Interpretation of Dreams, Signification of Moles, Palmistry, &c. with a Selection of Jests, Riddles, Epigrams, and Bon Molts. The Whole to form A real Book of Knowledge in the Art of Conjuration. In which is displayed, the Way to make the Air Balloon and Inflammable Air.
Date: 1784