3-028-483 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Aerial Voyages" - mountain ranges of cloud, 1870. 'Under the title of "Voyages Aeriens," a large and finely-printed volume of 600 pages has been published by Messrs. Louis Hachette and Co...It is adorned with 117 wood engravings and six chromolithographs, designed after sketches taken by M. Albert Tissandier...The book contains a minute and accurate description of all the most remarkable balloon ascents made by Mr. Glaisher, by M. Camille Flammarion, by M. de Fonville, and by M. Gaston Tissandier, for purposes of scientific observation. [Our illustration shows] the singular appearance of the white mountains of cloud, beheld, from the balloon called L'Entreprenant, by M. W. de Fonville, in his second ascent, on March 22, 1868, from La Villette, near Paris, They looked quite solid, like a snow-covered range of the Alps viewed from the Görner or the Breithorn; and their aspect is well represented by the Engraving'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.