The principles, history, & use, of air-balloons
Subtitle: Also, a prospectus of Messrs. Blanchard & Baker's intended aerial voyage from the city of New-York
By: New-York: Printed by C. C. Van Alen for J. Fellows. 1796
Series: Photostat Americana. Second series ... Photostated at the Massachusetts historical society -- No. 84
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: Balloons; Balloon ascensions
Notes: Facsimile.

Signatures: leaf (t.-p.) unsigned, A-C⁶, D⁴.

Plate bound as frontispiece in Library of Congress copy of original.

One of 15 copies from the original in the Boston public library, June, 1939.

"List of Mr. Blanchard's aerial voyages": p. 40-41.

Includes a copy of the proclamation written by Washington and presented by him to Blanchard on his flight from Philadelphia, Jan. 9, 1793.