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Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870)

Friday 5 August 2011 at 14:58


Wonderful balloon ascents or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages from the French of F. Marion, with illustrations; 1870; Cassell Petter & Galpin, New York

A wonderful book of balloon travel. Wikicommons has a collections of the amazing illustrations in the book here.

Open Library link



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Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2011/08/05/wonderful-balloon-ascents-1870/