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Grand aerostatic ascent. : The nobility, gentry, and the public are most respectfully informed that

Published / Created:
1815.
Call Number:
File 53 K93 815
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
W. Glindon, Rupert-Street, Haymarket
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Krous, sieur, active 1815.
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Grand aerostatic ascent. : The nobility, gentry, and the public are most respectfully informed that the Sieur Krous, having at length succeeded in obtaining a ground for the above experiment, it will positively take place on Monday, July 3, 1815, at the Angel Gardens, Lambeth Walk, (late Chapman's) near Vauxhall, ... .

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Scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, poetry, newspaper clippings, etc., 1745-1838 (bulk 1780

Call Number:
Folio 66 748 Sc43
Collection Title:
Multi-title collection including To the nobility, gentry, and the curious for inspecting most
Image Count:
234
Abstract:
A scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, single sheet verse, newspaper clippings, with some manuscript materials laid in, somewhat organized topically, with material covering over a 95-year period, from the 1740s to 1838, but mostly dating from the ...
Description:
In English, with some entries in French.
Subject (Geographic):
England., England, and France
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning, Beauty, Personal, Clothing and dress, Entertainment events, Freak shows, Ghosts, Lotteries, Medical instruments and apparatus, Menageries, Sports, Violent crimes, Social life and customs, and Foreign public opinion, British
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Scrapbook of advertisements, broadsides, poetry, newspaper clippings, etc., 1745-1838 (bulk 1780-1800).

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Second and las tascent [sic] of the Vauxhall Balloon, previously to its return to England. : The

Published / Created:
[1837]
Call Number:
File 646 837 Se445+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Second and last ascent of the Vauxhall Balloon, previously to its return to England
Description:
Caption title.
Publisher:
Printed by Julius Didot, Senior, 4, boulevard d'Enfer
Subject (Geographic):
France, Paris., and Vauxhall Gardens (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Green, Charles, 1785-1870.
Subject (Topic):
Ballooning
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Second and las tascent [sic] of the Vauxhall Balloon, previously to its return to England. : The authorities of Paris having most kindly once more granted the use of the barracks for this purpose, the last ascent of the celebrated Vauxhall and Nassau balloon will take place, as before, at the Rue de Faubourg Poissonniere at one o'clock, next Monday, January 9, 1837, there will be seats for ten ladies and gentlemen; to be conducted by Mr. Green. Being his 228th ascent ...