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									1^ère Série	2^ème Série
Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history
	1	2	3	4	5	Full sheet	6	7	8	9	10
	N°. 3 – Sébastien Lenormand fait la 1re expérience du parachute, Montpellier (1783) Sébastien Lenormand undertakes the first parachuting attempt in Montpellier · Sébastien Lenormand unternimmt den ersten Fallschirmabsprungversuch in Montpellier
	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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