Through the air : a narrative of forty years' experience as an aëronaut : comprising a history of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means from the earliest period down to the present time : with an account of the author's most important air-voyages and his many thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes : also, an appendix, in which are given full instructions for the manufacture and management of balloons / by John Wise.
1873
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Through the air : a narrative of forty years' experience as an aëronaut : comprising a history of the various attempts in the art of flying by artificial means from the earliest period down to the present time : with an account of the author's most important air-voyages and his many thrilling adventures and hairbreadth escapes : also, an appendix, in which are given full instructions for the manufacture and management of balloons / by John Wise.
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Philadelphia ; New York : To-day Publishing Company, 1873.
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English
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1 online resource (650 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
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Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
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