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First air voyage in America : the times, the place, and the people of the Blanchard balloon voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodbury, together with a fac simile reprinting of the Journal of my forty-fifth ascension and the first in America
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia [Pa.] :
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company,
1943.
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"The first air voyage in America" (p. [7]-60) was written by Carroll Frey for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, from whose present property the voyage was made. "The original Journal copied is the one in the Ridgway Library of the Library Company of Philadelphia, except for the copy of the frontispiece engraving in the collection of the American Philosophical Society."--p. 59. |
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60, 27 p. : ill., port., map, facsim. ; 21 cm. |