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1800-1899
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Pages from various auction catalogs describing items or books that related to aeronautics or flying, including reproduced prints from Jean-Louis Carra's treatise "Essai sur la Nautique aérienne, contenant l'art de diriger les Ballons aérostatiques à volonté, & d'accélérer leur course dans les plaines de l'air...," Owen Cambridge's satirical poem "The Scribleriad," and "The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins" by Robert Paltock.
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