‘Aeronautica’: prints, cuttings, and other papers relating to the history of ballooning
Letter from A. V. Alexander to Lord Pethick-Lawrence
Letter from Isaac Barrow to the Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
Cutting from a newspaper, containing a notice of the death of Charles Green
Printed pamphlet entitled Air-Navigation by means of the Rotary Balloon, by John Luntley
Print of a rotary balloon designed by John Luntley
Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article headed ‘A Fearful Balloon Voyage’
Cutting from a newspaper, containing a humorous reference to an advertisement announcing that ‘Chauvin has discovered the law of balloon-driving’
Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article headed ‘The End of an Aeronaut’
Cutting from a newspaper, containing an article headed ‘Ballooning across the Atlantic’
Printed score of ‘Le Voyage aérien’, a song by Gustave Nadaud (version No. 1, for baritone or contralto and piano), illustrated with a lithograph by Celestin Nanteuil
Cutting from a newspaper, containing a short notice headed ‘Prince Lucien Bonaparte and his Works’
Print captioned ‘Vorderseite des Marsfeldes am 1 Vendemiare des Jahres VII. Wettrennen Vorbrennen einer hölzernen Burg durch Aerostaten’
Cropped half-title of An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England by Vincent Lunardi, signed by Lunardi
Printed leaflet entitled Prospectus de la cinquante-unième ascencion de l’aéronaute Blanchard
Rough notes by Joseph Michel Montgolfier headed ‘Diverses idées sur la fabriquation des tableaux en minag[…?] qui peuvent estre executés par la voye de la fabriquation du papier’
Cutting from an album amicorum, bearing an inscription by Jean-Pierre Blanchard
Print of (Jean-Pierre) François Blanchard, engraved by F. W. Bollinger. Published at Zwickau by Schumann Brothers
Print captioned ‘The balloon passing over Coblenz’, lithographed by A. Butler from a sketch by Monck Mason
