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Frontispiece: Portrait of Vincent Lunardi

  • 1784

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Frontispiece portrait of Vincent Lunardi, the author of An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England.

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  • 22 cm H
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  • (Below portrait) ".....et se Protinùs aethereà tollit in astra via. Vincent Lunardi Esqr. Secretary to the Neapolitan Ambassador, and the first aërial Traveller in the English Atmosphere Septr. 15. 1784."
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Lunardi, Vincent. “Frontispiece: Portrait of Vincent Lunardi.” In An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in England. London, England: John Bell, 1784. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/9z903047k.

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