Volante Collection

Measles Compared
The left boy has MEASLES (rougeole), the middle one SCARLET FEVER (scarlatine), the right SMALLPOX (petite verole volante) Can you spot the difference ?

Cod fish and whiting
Cod fish, Gadus morhua, Baccala 1 and whiting, Merlangius merlangus, Merlango comune 2. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Laurent de Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

Fashionable people playing the game of ring toss, 1818
Fashionable people playing the game of ring toss, la bague volante, from an engraving in le Bon Genre, 1818. Lithograph from Henry Rene Allemagnes Sports and Games of Skill (Sports et Jeux d Adresse)

The creole game or flying ring game, early 19thc century
Fashionable people playing the flying ring game or the creole game. When the Parisians adopted the game, it had to be embellished: so the ring was covered with ribbon, then rosettes, then bells

Bearded ghoul, broadbarred firefish, and red lionfish
Bearded ghoul, Inimicus didactylus, broadbarred firefish, Pterois antennata, and red lionfish, Pterois volitans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jean Baptiste Guyard after an illustration by

Advertisement, Toledo Steel Co, Volante Tricycles
Advertisement, Toledo Steel Co, Kentish Town, London, Special Volante Tricycles. 1890s

Aerostat systeme Vaussin Chardanne (brevete). Moyens simples et peu couteuse pour faire descendre et remonter e volante un ballon dans lair sans perte de gaz et de lest, sans crainte l accidents

Moteur hydrostatique & a base de tous liquides e mouvement perpetuel relatif, c est-e-dire, soumis e la casse, e l usure des pieces, e l entretien de sa base & e la volante de l homme

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