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• Opuscoli di Agostino Gerli. (Dalla Stamperia reale, 1785), by Agostino Gerli, Girolamo Mantelli, Domenico Muzzi, and Giuseppe Patrini (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Narrative of the Two Aerial Voyages of Doctor Jeffries With Mons. Blanchard: With Meteorological Observations and Remarks: The First Voyage, on the Thirtieth of November, 1784, From London Into Kent; The Second, On the Seventh of January, 1785, From England Into France (London: Printed for the author and sold by J. Robson, 1786), by John Jeffries
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• En Ballon! Pendant le Siege de Paris (in French), by Gaston Tissandier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Letter, Addressed to a Female Friend, by Mrs. Sage, the First English Female Aerial Traveller, Describing the General Appearance and Effects of Her Expedition With Mr. Lunardi's Balloon, Which Ascended From St. George's Fields on Wednesday, 29th June, 1785, Accompanied by George Biggin, Esq. (second edition; London: Printed for the writer. ca. 1785), by Mrs. Sage (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Travels in the Air (London: R. Bentley, 1871), by James Glaisher, Camille Flammarion, W. de Fonvielle, and Gaston Tissandier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents (1870), by Fulgence Marion (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1870), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful Balloon Ascents, or, The Conquest of the Skies: A History of Balloons and Balloon Voyages (London et al.: Cassell Petter and Galpin, n.d.), by Fulgence Marion (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Up in the Clouds, or, Balloon Voyages, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)
• Astra Castra: Experiments and Adventures in the Atmosphere (London: Chapman and Hall, 1865), by Hatton Turnor
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• Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793 ... (Printed by C. Cist, no. 104 North Second-street, 1793. Tarrytown, N. Y., Reprinted, W. Abbatt, 1918), by Jean-Pierre Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luftreisen. (F. Brandstetter [pref.], 1883), by James Glaisher, Hermann Masius, Gaston Tissandier, W. de Fonvielle, and Camille Flammarion (page images at HathiTrust)
• 3,000 kilomètres en ballon. (B. Tignol, 1901), by Maurice Farman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die erschliessung des luftmeers. (O. Spamer, 1910), by Arthur Kirchoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in the air. (E. Stanford, 1877), by W. de Fonvielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• My life and balloon experiences, with a supplementary chapter on military ballooning. (W.H. Allen & co., 1887), by Henry Tracey Coxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de mes ascensions. (M. Dreyfous, 1880), by Gaston Tissandier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs et récits d'un aérostier militaire de l'armée de la Loire, 1870-1871 (M. Dreyfous, 1891), by Gaston Tissandier and V. A. Poirson (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Les ballons-sondes et les ascensions internationales (Gauthier-Villars, 1899), by W. de Fonvielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les secrets du coup d'ailes. (F.-L. Vivien, 1909), by J. C. Pompéïen-Piraud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Account of the late æronautical expedition from London to Weilburg. (F. C. Westley; [etc., etc.], 1836), by Monck Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in the air. (R. Bentley & Son, 1871), by James Glaisher, Gaston Tissandier, W. de Fonvielle, and Camille Flammarion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andrée's balloon expedition in search of the North pole (F.A. Stokes, 1898), by Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aventures aériennes et expériences mémorables des grands aéronautes (E. Plon et cie, 1876), by W. de Fonvielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Viage aerostatico de Fr. Gerundio [pseud.] y Tirabeque. Capricho gerundiano: en que se dá cuenta de la espedicion aérea que verificaron Fr. Gerundio y su lego en el globo de mr. Arban y en su compaÆnia, la tarde del 15 de noviembre de 1847. ([Estab. tipog. de Mellado], 1847), by Modesto Lafuente (page images at HathiTrust)
• La poste par pigeons voyageurs, souvenir du siége de Paris, spécimen identique d'une des pellicules de dépèches portées à Paris par pigeons voyageurs ([Typographie Lahure, Paris], 1944), by Prudent René Patrice Dagron (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Donaldson's balloon ascensions : laughable incidents, frightful accidents, narrow escapes, thrilling adventures, bursted balloons (Cincinnati News Company, 1875), by M. L. Amick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal kept by H. B. H. B. during an aerial voyage with Mr. James Sadler, sen., from Hackney, Middlesex, to East Thorpe, Essex, five miles from Colchester, August 29, 1811. ([G. Woodfall, printer], 1811), by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A terre & en l'air; mémoires du géant, par Nadar. Avec une introd. par M. Babinet. (E. Dentu, 1864), by Félix Nadar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les aéronautes, les colombophiles du siège de Paris. (F. L. Vivien, 1909), by François Mallet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les ballons et les voyages aériens (Hachette et cie, 1867), by Fulgence Marion and P. Sellier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les ballons et les voyages aériens (Hachette et cie, 1869), by Fulgence Marion and P. Sellier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les ballons et les voyages aériens (Hachette et cie, 1881), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mon bonnet de nuit. (De l'imprimerie de la Société typographique, 1784), by Louis-Sébastien Mercier and Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crotchets in the air; or An (un)scientific account of a balloon-trip, in a familiar letter to a friend. (H. Colburn, 1838), by John Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• A ride across the Channel, and other adventures in the air. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882), by Fred Burnaby (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the first aërial voyage in England, in a series of letters to his guardian, Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, written under the impressions of the various events that affected the undertaking (Printed for the author, sold by J. Bell [etc.], 1784), by Vincent Lunardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful balloon ascents : or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages. From the French of F. Marion. With illustrations. (C. Scribner & co., 1870), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• A narrative of the two aerial voyages of Doctor Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard; with meteorological observations and remarks. The first voyage, on the thirtieth of November, 1784 from London into Kent: the second, on the seventh of January, 1785, from England into France. ([New York, 1941), by John Jeffries, Institute of the Aerospace Sciences. Aeronautical archives, and N.Y.) United States. Work Projects Administration (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andrée and his balloon (A. Constable, 1898), by Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luftreisen (F. Brandstetter, 1872), by James Glaisher, Hermann Masius, Gaston Tissandier, W. de Fonvielle, and Camille Flammarion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les ballons pendant le siége de Paris; récits de 60 voyages aériens (F. Watelier, 1871), by G. de Clerval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of travel by land, water, and air (T.F. Unwin ltd., 1921), by Frank Hedges Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Las ascensiones libres en la compañia de aerostación (Madrid, 1905), by Alfredo Kindelán (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémories du géant (Dentu, 1865), by Félix Nadar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful balloon ascents: or, The conquest of the skies. (Scribner, Armstrong, & co., 1874), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beitrage zur erforschung der atmosphare mittels des luftballons. (Mayer & Muller, 1900), by Richard Assmann, Reinhard Joachim Süring, Victor Felix Karl Kremser, H. Gross, and Arthur Joseph Stanislaus Berson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in the air. (R. Bentley, 1871), by James Glaisher, Gaston Tissandier, W. de Fonvielle, and Camille Flammarion (page images at HathiTrust)
• !Ya no existe! : à la muerte del intrépido é infeliz aereonauta D. José María Flores, ocurrida, en su desgraciada ascensión, la tarde de ayer 30 de enero de 1848. ([s.n.], 1848), by José Basilio Porras (page images at HathiTrust)
• La travesía de los Andes en globo (Imprenta Argentina "Jacobo Peruser", 1917), by Eduardo Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• (un) scientific account of a balloon-trip, in a familiar letter to a friend. (H. Colburn, 1838), by John Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
• La science en ballon (Gauthier-Villars, 1869), by W. de Fonvielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les ballons pendant le siége (Au Bureau de l'Éclipse, 1871), by W. de Fonvielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• En ballon! pendant le siége de Paris; souvenirs d'un aéronaute (E. Dentu, 1871), by Gaston Tissandier, E. Donnaud, and E. Dentu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Erschliessung des Luftmeers : Luftschiffahrt und Flugtechnik in ihrer Entwicklung und ihrem heutigen Stande (Verlag von Otto Spamer, 1912), by Arthur Kirchhoff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wissenschaftliche Luftfahrten (F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1899), by Richard Assmann, Arthur Berson, and Berlin Deutscher verein zur förderung der Luftschiffahrt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le siège de Paris vu à vol d'oiseau. (J. Hetzel, 1895), by W. de Fonvielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de mes ascensions: récit de vingt-quatre voyages aériens (1868-1877) précédé de simples notions sur les ballons et la navigation aérienne (M. Dreyfous, 1878), by Gaston Tissandier and Albert Tissandier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dans les nuages; impressions d'une chaise (G. Charpentier, 1878), by Sarah Bernhardt and Georges Jules Victor Clairin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty years of travel by land, water, and air (F.A. Stokes, 1920), by Frank Hedges Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Luftfahrten im Frieden und im Kriege (L. Simion nf., 1913), by Gerd Fritz Leberecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opuscoli di Agostino Gerli. (Dalla Stamperia reale, 1785), by Agostino Gerli, Girolamo Mantelli, Domenico Muzzi, and Giuseppe Patrini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traversée de la Méditerranée en ballon. (C. Rozez, 1899), by Louis Capazza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traversée aérienne de 600 kilomètres de Paris à Agen, à bord du "Touring-club", 20 novembre 1896. (Imp. L. Lambert, 1896), by Georges Besançon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation d'un voyage aéronautique (Dunod, 1872), by Ernest Cézanne and Etienne Antoine Eugène Ronjat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mes voyages aériens; impressions et études; journal de bord de douze voyages scientifiques en ballon; avec plans topographiques. (C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, 1883), by Camille Flammarion (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Paris à Vaucouleurs à vol d'oiseau : relation d'un voyage scientifique en ballon (Gauthier-Villars, 1873), by Camille Flammarion and Charles Boissay (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Les ballons-sondes de mm. Hermite et Besançon et les ascensions internationales (Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1898), by W. de Fonvielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les grandes ascensions maritimes; la traversé de La Manche (A. Ghio, 1882), by W. de Fonvielle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publication du Spectateur militaire (A la direction du "Spectateur militaire, 1888), by W. de Fonvielle and François Lhoste (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wonderful balloon ascents, or the conquest of the skies; a history of balloons and balloon voyages. From the French. (Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co., 1880), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récits d'un aéronaute: Histoire de l'aérostation--Fantaisies aérostatiques-- (C. Delagrave, 1885), by H. de Graffigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations météorologiques en ballon. (Résumé de 25 ascensions aérostatiques) (Gauthier-Villars, 1879), by Gaston Tissandier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de mes ascensions. (M. Dreyfous [pref]., 1888), by Gaston Tissandier and Albert Tissandier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gay-Lussac aéronaute (Imprimerie G. Michau et cie, 1890), by Charles Sibillot and Association française pour l'avancement des sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliothèque d'Aventures et de voyages (Paris, 1879), by Gaston Tissandier and Albert Tissandier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Puteshestvii͡a po vozdukhu : razskazy o vozdushnykh sharakh i o vozdushnykh puteshestvii͡akh (Tip. T-va I.D. Sytina, 1899), by G. Tissandier and C. Flammarion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les ballons et les voyages aériens. (Hachette et cie, 1874), by Fulgence Marion (page images at HathiTrust)
• By land and sky (I. Pitman & Sons, 1907), by John M. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• By land and sky (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Inc., 1907), by John M. Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Photographie en ballon (C. Mendel, 1911), by Gebhard A. Guyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analysis of factors influencing rate of rise of large scientific balloons (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Air Force Systems Command, United States Air Force, 1973., 1973), by George F. Nolan, Patrick L. Keeney, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• La poste par pigeons voyageurs, souvenir du siége de Paris, spécimen identique d'une des pellicules de dépêches portées à Paris par pigeons voyageurs, photographiées par Dagron ... Notice sur le voyage du ballon le Niepce emportant M. Dagron et ses collaborateurs et détails sur la mission qu'ils avaient à remplir. ([Typographie Lahure, Paris], 1870), by Prudent René Patrice Dagron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage du Géant de Paris à Hanovre en ballon (E. Dentu, 1863), by E. d' Arnoult (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires du Géant (E. Dentu, 1864), by Félix Nadar (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die ersten Wiener Luftschiffahrten. ([Wien, 1926), by Ignaz Schwarz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Andrée and His Balloon, by Henri Lachambre and Alexis Machuron (Gutenberg ebook)
• À terre & en l'air...: Mémoires du Géant (in French), by Félix Nadar, contrib. by M. Babinet (Gutenberg ebook)
• Journal of my forty-fifth ascension, being the first performed in America, on the ninth of January, 1793. : Aethereum tranabit iter, quo numine Blanchard? Impavidus, fortem non timet Icariam. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Charles Cist, no. 104. North Second-Street,, M,DCC,XCIII. [1793]), by Jean-Pierre Blanchard and George Washington (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The principles, history & use, of air-balloons. Also, a prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & Barker's intended aerial voyage from the city of New-York 1796. (New-York: : Printed by C.C. Van Alen for J. Fellows., 1796), by Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Gardiner Baker, and George Washington (HTML at Evans TCP)

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