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										1^ère Série	2^ème Série
Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history
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	Le Commandant Coutelle au siège de Mayence (1795) N°. 1 Les utopies de la navigation aérienne au siècle dernier N°. 2 Sébastien Lenormand fait la 1re expérience du parachute, Montpellier (1783) N°. 3 Descente de Jacques Garnerin en parachute (1797) N°. 4 Gay-Lussac et Biot a 4,000 mètres de Hauteur (1804) N°. 5						N°. 6 Le Ballon du couronnement de Napoléon (1804) N°. 7 Mort de Mme. Blanchard (1819) N°. 8 Zambeccari et ses deux compagnons dans L'Adriatique (1804) N°. 9 Mort de Harris (1824) N°. 10 Arban est recueilli par des pècheurs Italiens (1846)
	Medium: 10 prints (ephemera) (1 sheet) : chromolithograph. Created/published: Paris : Romanet & cie., imp. edit., [between 1890 and 1900] Notes: sheet of 10 uncut cards, individually captioned and numbered; issued as "Collection 476," "2ème série."; French captions on each card; Tissandier collection. Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003-04.
Call number: LOT 13416, no. 30 [P&P]; reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02561 (digital file from original print); card number: 2002717347. No known restrictions on publication.
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