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[004520] [Ballooning Broadside] Royal Vauxhall Nassau Balloon Constructed & Directed By M. Green … A Public Ascent with This Celebrated Balloon Which Will Take Place Next Monday, December 19, 1836 Etc. Etc. Paris: Julius Didot, 1836. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Unbound. Broadside. Good+. Single sided broadside, approximately 255mm x 430mm in size

Lightly creased, a couple of small spots of soiling to head, ink tax stamp to head, but generally quite bright and clean

Printed on yellow paper, with interesting use of type, though not always the easiest to read. Presumably aimed mainly at the English tourist trade

The first of two ascents made by Charles Green the balloonist (1785-1870) in Paris, this being his 227th ascent. Green had, the previous month, set a new world record for the distance travelled in a balloon, taking off from Vauxhall Gardens, and eventually landing in the Duchy of Nassau (in Germany), approximately 500 miles. Before returning home he stopped off in Paris, and made this ascent, the balloon now with ‘Nassau’ in its name