AVIATION: A large oblong folio page removed from an autograph album individually signed by Paul Rolier (1844-1918) French engineer and aeronaut, pilot of the balloon La Ville d´Orleans which inadvertently made the first flight across the North Sea from France to Norway on 24th November 1870 during the Siege of Paris,´Souvenir reconnaissant d´un aeronaute du Siege a son illustre collegue, le fondateur des Ballons de Paris....´ (Translation: ´A grateful souvenir from a Siege aeronaut to his illustrious colleague, the founder of the Ballons de Paris....´); and his fellow aeronaut Henri Bergeron, ´Deux mots d´admiration a mon maitre, Nadar! qui est pour moi l´eternel ideal que je ne saurai jamais attiendre´ (Translation: ´Two words of admiration for my master, Nadar! who is for me the eternal ideal that I will never be able to attain´). Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG

Provenance: The present signatures originate from the personal Album Amicorum of Nadar (1820-1910) Gaspard-Felix Tournachon. French photographer, caricaturist and balloonist, the first person to take aerial photographs (1858).