Subject: Ballooning
Period: 1818 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
8 x 10 inches
20.3 x 25.4 cm
An interesting copper engraving depicting the early days of manned balloon flight. Includes engravings of the Montgolfier brothers’ successful manned ascent at Versailles in 1783, Francesco Lana Terzi's concept of a lighter-than-air vehicle from more than a century earlier, Charles and Robert's first hydrogen balloon, Blanchard's hydrogen balloon with flapping devices to control its flight, and the first successful parachute descent from a balloon made by Frenchman André Jacques Garnerin.
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Condition: B
Light foxing in margins and some minor soil.
