Fourth Day's Sale. 1347 Aeronautica Illustrata
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Date
1855-1865Description
Page from an auction sale detailing George James Norman's collection of "Aeronautica Illustrata" containing various portraits, autographed letters, engravings, broadsides, clippings, specimens of balloons, etc. covering the history and people associated with aeronautics up to the time of the sale. Handwritten note at bottom reads, "Purchased by the Crown Seal Patent Office Southampton bdgs [buildings] Chancery Lane." For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/579
Subject
Auction catalogs, Balloons -- History, collections (object groupings), Norman, George James