Collecting cards with pictures of events in ballooning and parachuting history

Le Commandant Coutelle au siège de Mayence (1795) N°. 1
Les utopies de la navigation aérienne au siècle dernier N°. 2
Sébastien Lenormand fait la 1^re expérience du parachute, Montpellier (1783) N°. 3
Descente de Jacques Garnerin en parachute (1797) N°. 4
Gay-Lussac et Biot à 4 000 mètres de Hauteur (1804) N°. 5

Commander Coutelle at the Battle of Mainz (1795) N°. 1
The utopia of air navigation in previous century N°. 2
Sébastien Lenormand makes the first parachuting attempt in Montpellier (1783) N°. 3
Jacques Garnerin's parachute descent (1797) N°. 4
Gay-Lussac and Biot at the altitude of 4000 metres (1804) N°. 5

N°. 6 Le Ballon du couronnement de Napoléon (1804)
N°. 7 Mort de Mme. Blanchard (1819)
N°. 8 Zambeccari et ses deux compagnons dans L'Adriatique (1804)
N°. 9 Mort de Harris (1824)
N°. 10 Arban est recueilli par des pécheurs Italiens (1846)

N°. 6 The balloon of Napoleon's coronation (1804)
N°. 7 Death of Madame Blanchard (1819)
N°. 8 Zambeccari and his two companions in the Adriatic (1804)
N°. 9 Death of Harris (1824)
N°. 10 Arban is rescued by Italian fishermen (1846)

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," "2^e 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. 30 [P&P]; reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02561 (digital file from original print); card number: 2002717347. No known restrictions on publication.

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