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									1^re série	2^e série
Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history
	1	2	3	4	5	Full sheet	6	7	8	9	10
	N°. 4 – Premier voyage aérien Pilâtre de Rozier et d'Arlandes (1783) First aerial voyage with Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes · Erste Flugreise mit Pilâtre de Rozier und d'Arlandes
	Medium: 10 prints (ephemera) (1 sheet) : chromolithograph. Created/published: Paris : Romanet & cie., imp. edit., [between 1890 and 1900] Notes: sheet of 10 uncut cards, individually captioned and numbered; issued as "Collection 476," "1^re série."; French captions on each card; Tissandier collection. Exhibited: "The Dream of Flight" : American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2003-04.
Call number: LOT 13416, no. 31 [P&P]; reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02562 (digital file from original print); card number: 2002717348. No known restrictions on publication.
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