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  • Le premier vol libre de l'histoire, le 21 novembre 1783 à Paris, par le major François-Laurent d'Arlandes et son compagnon F. Pilâtre de Rozier sur le ballon des frères de Montgolfier. Le château d'Arlempdes et la maison d'Arlempdes, puis d'Arlandes.

    • Text
    • [Le Puy, Éditions Jeanne-d'Arc, 1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSF 72-1066Offsite
  • Jambo: African balloon safari.

    • Text
    • New York, Dutton, 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc 916.76-S (Smith, A. Jambo)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Les ballons du siège de Paris.

    • Text
    • Paris, France-Empire [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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  • The siege of Paris, September 1870-January 1871. par ballon monté. With some of the circumstances and events from July 1870 to June 1871. [By Reuben R. Thompson. 1st ed.

    • Text
    • Lakeland, Fla., 1975.]
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 75-1409Offsite
  • Bags up! : Great ballon adventures / Kurt R. Stehling. 1st ed.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Playboy Press, c1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 76-1385Offsite
  • Daffodil and Golden Eagle; the saga of two balloons crossing the Sahara. Photos. by Jon Gardey.

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    • [Henley-on-Thames] Eng., Aidan Ellis Publishing [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSE 76-1587Offsite
  • Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, by Jean-Pierre Baptiste Blanchard.

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    • Oakham, Mass., Oakham Bindery, 1976.
    • 1976-1793
    • 1 Item
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  • Double Eagle / Charles McCarry, with Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, Larry Newman.

    • Text
    • Boston : Little, Brown, 1979
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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  • An account of five aerial voyages in Scotland / Vincent Lunardi; with an introd. by Alexander Law.

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    • Edinburgh : Friends of Edinburgh University Library, 1976.
    • 1976-1786
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 80-213Offsite
  • La Manche en ballon : Blanchard contre Pilâtre de Rozier / Raymond Fontaine.

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    • Dunkerque : Westhoek-Editions, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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  • Double Eagle / Charles McCarry, with an introduction by Chris Bonington.

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    • Leicester : Ulverscroft, 1982, c1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSD 83-363Offsite
  • Les frères Montgolfier et la conquête de l'air / Michel Faure.

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    • Aix-en-Provence : Edisud, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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  • Journey to Deptford / Alan Drattell & Jeanne O'Neill.

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    • [Deptford, N.J. : Township of Deptford], c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFC 84-1631Offsite
  • Kel Essouf : "le Sahara en montgolfière" / photographies, Alain Sèbe ; texte écrit grâce au concours de Daniel Richelet.

    • Text
    • Le Thoronet [France] : A. Sèbe, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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  • Les riches heures des frères Montgolfier / Marcel Bétinas, Georges Renaudie.

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    • Annonay : Les compagnons du livre, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
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    Text JSG 86-38Offsite
  • Around the world on hot air & two wheels / Malcolm Forbes.

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    • New York : Simon and Schuster, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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  • Il viaggio aereo dell'illustre cavalier milanese don Paolo Andreani / esposto dal canonico Carlo Castelli in una lettera diretta al sig. Faujas de Saint Fond, celebre istorico delle esperienze ariostatiche.

    • Text
    • 1986-1785
    • 1 Item
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    Text *KSD 80-156 no. 30Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • The Andrée expedition : song-cycle for baritone and piano / Dominick Argento.

    • Notated music
    • U.S.A. : Boosey & Hawkes, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Notated music JNG 89-165Offsite
  • Aventures aériennes et expériences mémorables des grands aéronautes. Ouvrage orné de 40 gravures.

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    • Paris, E. Plon et Cie, 1876.
    • 1876
    • 1 Item
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  • A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard, with meteorological observations and remarks : The first voyage, on the thirtieth of November, 1784, from London into Kent : The second, on the seventh of January, 1785, from England into France / by Doctor Jeffries.

    • Text
    • Cleveland, Ohio : Micro Photo Division, Bell & Howell Co., [199-?]
    • 1990-1786
    • 1 Item

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    Text JFD 96-23907Offsite
  • Tom Sawyer abroad / Mark Twain ; foreword, Shelley Fisher Fishkin ; introduction, Nat Hentoff ; afterword, M. Thomas Inge.

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    • New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
    • 1996-1894
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 97-3378Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Throw out two hands.

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    • London, G. Allen and Unwin [1963]
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text D-14 6844Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Airlift 1870; the balloon and pigeon post in the Siege of Paris [by] John Fisher.

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    • London, M. Parrish [1965]
    • 1965
    • 1 Item
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  • Ingen fruktan, intet hopp. Ett collage kring S.A. Andrée, hans följeslagare och hans polarexpedition.

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    • Stockholm, Bonnier, 1968.
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
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  • Andréegåtan / av H.N. Pallin.

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    • Uppsala : J.A. Lindblad, 1934.
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
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    Text KBR (Pallin, H. N. Andréegåtan)Offsite
  • Andrée's story; the complete record of his polar flight, 1897, from the diaries and journals of S.A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg, and K. Frænkel, found on White Island in the summer of 1930. Translated from the Swedish by Edward Adams-Ray.

    • Text
    • New York, The Viking Press, 1930.
    • 1930
    • 2 Items
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    Text KBR (Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi, Stockholm. Andrée's story)Offsite
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  • The Andrée diaries, being the diaries and records of S. A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg and Knut Frænkel written during their balloon expedition to the North pole in 1897 and discovered on White island in 1930, toogether with a complete record of the expedition and discovery; authorized translation from the official Swedish ed. by Edward Adams-Ray.

    • Text
    • London, J. Lane [1931]
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
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    Text KBR (Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi, Stockholm. Andrée diaries)Offsite
  • Per balono al la poluso : la polusekspedicio de Andrée en 1897, eldonita sur la bazo de la notaĵoj de S. A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg kaj Knut Frænkel, trovitaj sur la Blanka Insulo en la somero 1930 de Sveda Societo por Antropologio kaj Geografio / de S. A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg kaj Knut Frænkel ; el la tradukis Stellan Engholm.

    • Text
    • Stockholm : Förlagsföreningen Esperanto, c1930.
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
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    Text KBR (Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi, Stockholm. Per balono al la Poluso)Offsite
  • Med Örnen mot polen, av S. A. Andreé, Nils Strindberg och Knut Frænkel ; Andreés polar-expedition ȧr 1897, utgiven pȧ grundval av S. A. Andreés, Nils Strindbergs och Knut Frænkels sommaren 1930 pȧ Vitön funna anteckningar, av Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi.

    • Text
    • Stockholm, A. Bonnier [1930]
    • 1930
    • 1 Item
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    Text KBR (Svenska sällskapet för antropologi och geografi, Stockholm. Med Örnen mot Polen)Offsite
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  • Mon bonnet de nuit. Par m. Mercier.

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    • A Neuchatel, De l'imprimerie de la Société typographique, et se vend a Versailles, chez Poinçot, 1784-85.
    • 1784-1785
    • 4 Items

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    Text NADB (Mercier, L. S. Mon bonnet de nuit) v. 2Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • An account of the first aërial voyage in England : in a series of letters to his guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, written under the impressions of the various events that affected the undertaking / by Vincent Lunardi ...

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    • London : Printed for the author, and sold at the Pantheon, also by publisher J. Bell ... and at Mr. Molini's Woodstock-Street, 1784.
    • 1784
    • 2 Items
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    Text VDT (Lunardi, V. Account of the first aërial voyage in England. 1784)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • A system of aeronautics, comprehending its earliest investigations, and modern practice and art. Designed as a history for the common reader, and guide to the student of the art. In three parts. Containing an account of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means, from the earliest period down to the discovery of the aeronautic machine by the Montgolfiers, in 1782, and to a later period. With a brief history of the author's fifteen years' experience in aerial voyages. Also, full instructions in the art of making balloons ... By John Wise ...

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    • Philadelphia, J.A. Speel, 1850.
    • 1850
    • 1 Item

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  • Travels in the air. By James Glaisher, F. R. S., Camille Flammarion, W. de Fonvielle, and Gaston Tissandier. Ed. by James Glaisher, F. R. S. With one hundred and twenty-five illustrations.

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    • London, R. Bentley & Son, 1871.
    • 1871
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Glaisher, J. Travels in the air)Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Fifty years of flying, by Griffith Brewer.

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    • London, Air League of the British Empire, 1946.
    • 1946
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDT (Brewer, G. Fifty years of flying)Offsite
  • L'aeronavtica italiana nell' immagine, 1487-1875; bibliografia di Guiseppe Boffito con aggiunte di Paolo Arrigoni.

    • Text
    • Milano, Museo Caproni, 1938.
    • 1938
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDT+ (Caproni, T. G. Aeronautica italiana nell' immagine)Offsite
  • Pioneros de la aviación mexicana, por José Villela Jr.

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    • México, Ediciones Colofón [1964]
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDT (Villela, J. Pioneros de la aviacion mexicana)Offsite
  • Wonderful balloon ascents: or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages, from the French of F. Marion.

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    • New York, Scribner, Armstrong, & co., 1874.
    • 1874
    • 1 Item

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  • Un pioniere dell'aeronautica, Vincenzo Lunardi; documenti inediti e saggio iconografico, raccolti da G. Morazzoni.

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    • Milano, Antiquariato W. Toscanini, 1931.
    • 1931
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDT (Morazzoni, G. Pioniere dell'aeronautica, Vincenzo Lunardi)Offsite
  • 500 fahrten im freiballon; erlebnisse und etfahrungen von dr. H. v. Abercron; mit 52 abbildungen.

    • Text
    • Berlin, R.C. Schmidt & co., 1929.
    • 1929
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Abercron, H. W. von. 500 Fahrten im Freiballon)Offsite
  • Der luftwanderer / H.C. Von Abercron.

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    • Berlin : Verlag von Georg Stilke, [19--?]
    • 1900-1996
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Abercron, H. W. von. Luft-wanderer)Offsite
  • Beitrage zur erforschung der atmosphare mittels des luftballons. Unter mitwirkung von A. Berson, H. Gross, V. Kremser und R. Suring; herausgegeben von Richard Assmann.

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    • Berlin, Mayer & Muller, 1900.
    • 1900
    • 1 Item

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    Text VDW (Assmann, R. Beitrage zur Erforschung der Atmosphäre mittels des Luftballons)Offsite
  • By land and sky, by the Rev. John M. Bacon ... with four illustrations.

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    • London, Isbister and Company limited; Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1901.
    • 1901
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Bacon, J. M. By land and sky)Offsite
  • With brass and gas; an illustrated and embellished chronicle of ballooning in mid-nineteenth century America. Illustrated by Owen Wood.

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    • Boston, Beacon Press [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Baldwin, M. With brass and gas)Offsite
  • Leichter als Luft; aus der Geschichte der Ballonluftfahrt.

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    • Hamburg, M. von Schröder [c1963]
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Braunburg, R. Leichter als Luft)Offsite
  • A ride across the Channel, and other adventures in the air. By Col. Fred. Burnaby ...

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    • London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882.
    • 1882
    • 1 Item

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  • Up in a balloon.

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    • New York, S. G. Phillips [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Cottrell, L. Up in a balloon)Offsite
  • En ballon.

    • Text
    • Paris : Editions France-Empire, [c1962].
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Dollfus, C. En ballon)Offsite
  • The Orion book of balloons. [Translated from Les ballons by Carter Mason].

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    • New York, Orion Press [1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Dollfus, C. Orion book of balloons)Offsite
  • History of Donaldson's balloon ascensions, laughable incidents, frightful accidents, narrow escapes, thrilling adventures, bursted balloons. Comp. and arranged by M. L. Amick, M. D. Illustrated from the original drawings of Donaldson.

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    • Cincinnati news company, 1875.
    • 1875
    • 1 Item
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    Text VDW (Donaldson, W. H. History of Donaldson's Balloon ascensions)Offsite
  • De Paris à Vaucouleurs à vol d'oiseau : relation d'un voyage scientifique en ballon / par C. Flammarion et Ch. Boissay.

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    • Paris : Gauthier-Villars, 1873.
    • 1873
    • 1 Item
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