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Vanity Fair. 'The Deutsch Prize', The aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont by George Hum, published Vanity Fair, November 14th 1901, colour lithograph printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ltd., 37.5 x 25.5 cm (14 3/4 x 10 ins) mount aperture, framed and glazed, with printed descriptive text attached to verso, together with another Vanity Fair print depicting Frank Hedges Butler, entitled 'The Air', framed and glazed, plus Alvey (F.). The Vauxhall Royal Balloon, formed of 2,000 yards of silk and capable of ascending with 28 persons, beside ballast and apparatus... First Ascent with 9 persons made from Vauxhall September 9th 1836, hand-coloured lithograph by F. Alvey after Black, a few marks to outer margins, 28 x 22.5 cm mount aperture, framed and glazed, and other various ballooning prints and related, including an original pen and black ink humourous scene entitled 'Time badly Employed', depicting a crown of people with a balloon ascent, attributed to A. J. Groom, and dated circa 1828 in later pencil to verso, gilt frame, glazed (17 x 22 cm), a framed and glazed photogravure print of the Royal Naval Air Service in action, after John de G. Bryan, circa 1915, a later printing of a cartoon of a hand-coloured caricature entitled 'onne Farte raising a southernly wind, 1798 [but later], framed and glazed, a large colour lithograph entitled The Battle of Paardeberg, circa 1900, framed and glazed (Quantity: 9)