Second balloon ascent of Dr. Andre-Jacques Garnerin with Miss Henri at the Parc Monceau, 8 July 1798. Seconde ascension du Physicien Garnerin avec le Citoyenne Henri au Parc de Mousseaux, le 5 Thermidor An 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere’s Journal des Modes et Dames, Paris, 1798. The illustrations in volume 1 were by Carle Vernet, Claude Louis Desrais and Philibert Louis Debucourt.

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