Carra...
Boitard, Louis-Philippe; Carra, Jean-Louis, 1743-1793; Maggs Bros.
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1800-1899Description
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. For more information about this item, visit https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/641
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Sails -- Aerodynamics, Ballooning, Auction catalogs, Flight, Boitard, Louis-Philippe, Cambridge, Richard Owen, 1717-1802, Paltock, Robert, 1697-1767, Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764