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[[Image - top - black & white illus. - balloon in flight above large building with columns, large entrance portal and balaustrading. Many people below with globes, devices of calculation and some appearing to study blueprints]]
Le Clerc? invenit. 
Albert Price [[?}} sculptor aurit et [[?]]

[[Image - left center - coloured illus. - Small yellow balloon in flight with two passengers. Watched by a man sitting on a tree trunk and two children playing ball.]]
Ballon Acrostatique 
Pila Acrostatica
Ballone Acrostatica 
Leftball

[[Image - right - black & white illus. Fig. XLII showing a boat shaped gondola with three passengers, one with an oar. Above them is a mast with a sail and four large inflated circular balloons secured to the boat with ropes.]]
An Air Balloon invented in the last Century. Publifhd by J. Sewell. Cornhill. 1st March 1789.

[[Image - bottom page left - black & white illus. showing a  semi-circular basket type gondola with one passenger and a plank across the centre. Above him is a mast with a sail and four large inflated circular balloons secured to the boat with ropes.]]

[[427 handwritten in pencil at bottom of page.]]