- Doubled; margins cut sl. short; sm. repaired tear at lower margin; a few (sm.) stains, twice in image; some fingersoiling/ duststaining.
= The caricaturesque print ridicules the attempt of Abbé Miolan and Janinet to ascend in a hot air balloon on July 11, 1784 at the Luxembourg gardens in Paris. Abbé Miollan and Janinet, respectively depicted as a cat and an ass, walk away as the fire is being fought. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXII.
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