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Men travelling in hot-air balloons by night. Coloured wood engraving.

A large balloon is hanging over the old town hall at Calais preparing for take-off. Coloured wood engraving.

Crowds of people gathered at an entertainment at Basford, Staffordshire, including music and a balloon. Coloured wood engraving, 1859.

A balloon sails over the headland and is rescued by a passing ship as it collapses. Coloured wood engraving.

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

A procession of carriages watched by crowds lining the streets, with soldiers on parade: a hot-air balloon flies overhead. Coloured engraving, 1814.

Crowds gather at the parade ground of the Honourable Artillery Company in London to watch two hot-air balloons. Gouache.

Two balloons in the air over boats in the water to which lines are attached from an anchoring system on the sea bed. Coloured wood engraving.

Crowds of people are watching in the streets as a balloon leaves the ground. Coloured etching after Char. de Lovinier.

Men filling a balloon with hydrogen. Coloured etching.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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.

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

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

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.