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1Title:  The first air voyage in America: the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America    
 Creator:  Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company 
 Frey, Carroll, 1894-
 Blanchard, Jean-Pierre, 1753-1809
 Publication:  The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Philadelphia,1943. 
 Notes:  "The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made. "The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59. 
 Call #:  TL630 B6P43 
 Extent:  60, 27 p. incl. front., 1 illus., plates, port., map, facsim. pl. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloon ascensions
 
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2Title:  Adventures in the air: being memorable experiences of great aeronauts    
 Alt. Title:  Aventures aeriennes et experiences memorables des grands aeronautes. English    
 Creator:  Fonvielle, W. de (Wilfrid), 1824-1914 
 Keltie, John ScottSir, 1840-1927
 Publication:  E. Stanford, London,1877. 
 Call #:  TL620 A1F685 1877 
 Extent:  xvi, 304 p. : front., illus. (incl. port.), plates ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloon ascensions
 
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3Title:  Wonderful balloon ascents: or, The conquest of the skies : a history of balloons and balloon voyages    
 Creator:  Marion, Fulgence. 
 Publication:  Charles Scribner & Co, New York,1870. 
 Notes:  Translation of: Les ballons et les voyages aâeriens. 
 Call #:  TL616 .M341 1870 
 Extent:  xvi, 218, 32, 6 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons | Balloon ascensions
 
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4Title:  Astra castra: experiments and adventures in the atmosphere    
 Creator:  Turnor, Christopher Hatton, 1840-1914 
 Publication:  Chapman and Hall, London,1865. 
 Notes:  "Roll of the first 500 aeronauts, with the date and place of their first ascents": p. [457]-462. Includes index. "Books hitherto published on aerostation": p. 463-465. 
 Call #:  TL515 T956 Oversize 
 Extent:  xxiii, 530 p. : front., illus., plates, ports. ; 32 cm. 
 Subjects:  Aeronautics -- History | Balloons | Balloon ascensions
 
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5Title:  Ballooning as a sport    
 Creator:  Baden-Powell, Baden Fletcher Smyth, 1860-1937 
 Publication:  W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, London,1907. 
 Call #:  TL610 B134 
 Extent:  xx, 135 [1] p. : 3 pl. (incl. front.) ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloons | Ballooning | Balloon ascensions
 
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6Title:  First aerial voyage across the English Channel: diary of Dr. John Jeffries, the Aeronaut    
 Creator:  Jeffries, John, 1745-1819 
 Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
 Publication:  The Library, Fort Wayne, Ind,1955. 
 Notes:  Originally printed in The Magazine of American History, vol. XIII, January 1885. 
 Call #:  F37DC F74 no. 51 
 Extent:  22 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloonists | Balloon ascensions | Aeronautics -- History
 
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7Title:  John Wise, balloonist of Lancaster, Pennsylvania and his balloon ascensions in the middle west    
 Creator:  Young, Pearl I. 
 Publication:  s.n.], Hampton, Va,[196-?] 
 Notes:  "Talk given June 4, 1964 at Central States Aero Historical Society, Dayton, Ohio." 
 Call #:  TL620 W812Y 
 Extent:  23, [1]Á. ; 28 cm. 
 Subjects:  Wise, John, -- 1808-1879 | Balloon ascensions
 
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8Title:  Ballooning    
 Creator:  Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard, 1909- 
 Publication:  Penguin Books, London,1948. 
 Notes:  Bibliography: p. [40]. 
 Call #:  TL616 G444 
 Extent:  39, [1] p. : illus. (part col.) ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloon ascensions | Ballooning | Aeronautics -- Pictorial works
 
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9Title:  Andree's balloon expedition in search of the North pole    
 Alt. Title:  Andrâee. English    
 Creator:  Lachambre, Henri, 1846-1904 
 Machuron, Alexis
 Publication:  F.A. Stokes, New York,[1898] 
 Notes:  Translation of: Andrâee : au pãole nord en ballon. 
 Call #:  G700 1897 A558L 
 Extent:  306 p. incl. illus., plates, port. front. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Andrâee, Salomon August, -- 1854-1897 | Balloon ascensions | North Pole
 
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10Title:  By land and sky    
 Creator:  Bacon, John Mackenzie, 1846-1904 
 Publication:  Isbister and Company limited, J.B. Lippincott Company, London, Philadelphia,1901. 
 Call #:  TL620 B128A3 
 Extent:  viii, [9]-275, [1] p. : front., 3 pl. ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Bacon, John Mackenzie, -- 1846-1904 | Balloon ascensions
 
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11Title:  By land and sky    
 Creator:  Bacon, John Mackenzie, 1846-1904 
 Publication:  Isbister and Company limited, London,1900. 
 Call #:  TL620 B128A3 1900 
 Extent:  275 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Bacon, John Mackenzie, -- 1846-1904 | Balloon ascensions
 
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12Title:  Travels in the air    
 Alt. Title:  Voyages aeriens. English    
 Creator:  Glaisher, James, 1809-1903 
 Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925
 Fonvielle, W. de (Wilfrid), 1824-1914
 Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899
 Publication:  R. Bentley & Son, London,1871. 
 Call #:  TL620 A1G544a 
 Extent:  xxix, 398 p. : col. front., 5 col. pl., maps, diagrs. ; 26 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloon ascensions | Aeronautics -- History | Aeronautics -- Early works to 1900
 
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13Title:  Fifty years of flying    
 Creator:  Brewer, Griffith, 1867-1948 
 Air League of the British Empire
 Publication:  Air League of the British Empire, London,1946. 
 Notes:  "First published in 1946." 
 Call #:  TL540 B847A3 
 Extent:  170 p. : front., plates, ports., diagrs. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Brewer, Griffith, -- 1867-1948 | Aeronautics -- History | Balloon ascensions | Balloonists -- Great Britain -- Biography
 
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14Title:  My life and balloon experiences: with a supplementary chapter on military ballooning    
 Creator:  Coxwell, Henry Tracey, 1819-1900 
 Publication:  W.H. Allen & Co, London,1887-89. 
 Notes:  Vol. 2 is called "2d series." 
 Call #:  TL620 C879A4 
 Extent:  2 v. : front. (v. 2), 13 pl. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Coxwell, Henry Tracey, -- 1819-1900 | Balloon ascensions | Balloons | Balloonists -- Great Britain -- Biography
 
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15Title:  History of Donaldson's balloon ascensions: laughable incidents, frightful accidents, narrow escapes, thrilling adventures, bursted balloons    
 Creator:  Amick, M. L. 
 Publication:  Cincinnati news company,1875. 
 Call #:  TL610 A516 
 Extent:  199, [1] p. front. (port.) plates. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Donaldson, Washington Harrison, -- 1840-1875 | Aeronautics -- United States -- History | Balloon ascensions
 
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16Title:  Travels in the air    
 Alt. Title:  Voyages aeriens. English    
 Creator:  Glaisher, James, 1809-1903 
 Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925
 Fonvielle, W. de (Wilfrid), 1824-1914
 Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899
 Publication:  J.B. Lippincott, Philadelphia,1871. 
 Call #:  TL620 A1G544 
 Extent:  xxix, 398 p. : illus. (some col.) ; 26 cm. 
 Subjects:  Balloon ascensions | Aeronautics -- History | Aeronautics -- Early works to 1900
 
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17Title:  Andree's story: the complete record of his polar flight, 1897, from the diaries and journals of S.A. Andrâee, Nils Strindberg, and K. Frµnkel, found on White Island in the summer of 1930 and edited by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography    
 Creator:  Andrâee, Salomon August, 1854-1897 
 Strindberg, Nils, 1872-1897
 Frµnkel, Knut, 1870-1897
 Adams-Ray, Edward
 Svenska sèallskapet fèor antropologi och geografi
 Publication:  The Viking Press, New York,1930. 
 Call #:  G700 1897 .A558 1930 
 Extent:  xvi, 389 pages, 44 unnumbered pages of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, maps (1 folded), diagrams, facsimiles ; 25 cm 
 Subjects:  Andrâee, Salomon August, -- 1854-1897 | Strindberg, Nils, -- 1872-1897 | Frµnkel, Knut, -- 1870-1897 | Balloon ascensions | Arctic regions | North Pole
 
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