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    The Balloon almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1787

    | Date: [1786]
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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
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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]

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Balloon ascensions

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