Promenades Aeriennes Jardin Baujon Honore De La Presence De Sa Majeste Le 2 Aout 1817 The Aerial

by Ambroise Louis Lerouge Garneray Artist Engraver

$550 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A snap-shot view of the visit of King Louis XVIII to the Baujon pleasure gardens and the 'Aerial Walk-ways' in particular. This precursor of the modern roller-coaster was opened in Paris in 1817. As the view shows, it had two separate but continuous tracks. The tracks led out from the central tower with the walk-ways and tracks running in parallel. Particpiants could either walk down along the walk-ways or travel along the the track in the specially constructed 'cars' which

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