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Title: The First Air Voyage in America: The Times, the Place, and the People of the Blanchard Balloon Voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodberry
Description: Philadelphia, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1943. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan cloth. 60pp, 27pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Very good. Fascinating account of this early ascent, followed by the text of Jean Pierre Blanchard's "Journal of my Forty-fifth Ascension and the First in America" (Philadelphia, 1793). .

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