Wonderful ballon ascents : or, The conquest of the skies. A history of balloons and balloon voyages
A popular history of ballooning by Fulgence Marion, translated from the French and issued by Cassell, Petter & Galpin in New York in 1870 for general readers. Wood engravings show gas balloons on the ground and aloft — netting, rigging lines, decorated cars, crowds and horses in open fields — supplying cutaway envelope patterns, cloud hatching and small figure groups.
