• Publication: Orrin Lindsay's Plan of Aerial Navigation, with a Narrative of His Explorations in the Higher Regions of the Atmosphere, and His Wonderful Voyage to the Moon!Publication Record # 760400
• Author: J. L. Riddell, M.D.
• Date: 1847-00-00
• Publisher: John C. Noble's Book and Job Printing Office
• Pages: 24
• Format:
  ph^?Pamphlet. Used for short (in page count), unbound, staple-bound, or otherwise lightly bound publications.
• Type: CHAPBOOK
• Notes:

  • This is a Louisville, Kentucky, publication (or printing). The lecture was delivered at the People's Lyceum of New Orleans on Friday, April 30 (1847-04-30). See the novelette record for more information.
  • WorldCat (OCLC, below) reports size 22 cm, which matches that reported for the 33-page New Orleans, Louisiana, publication (see).
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of one copy with original cover: -- front cover identical to title page except double-line border -- title page: "Edited by J. L. Riddell, M.D." -- "Correspondence", p[3] This Louisville pamphlet contains correspondence between undersigned members of the "admiring audience" and Riddell, dated May 4 and May 8 (Tuesday and Saturday). The undersigned request a copy for publication; Riddell welcomes and complies. The lecture text, p[5]-24, begins under a heading represented below, whose title and credit both differ from those on the pamphlet title page. The entire two-line credit is:   (small) Read Before the People's Lyceum of New Orleans, April 30, 1847.   (large) By J. L. Riddell.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 16640410

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• 5 • Account of a A New Mode of Aerial Navigation, Embracing a Narrative of a Voyage to the Moon, by Orrin Lindsay • novelette by J. L. Riddell (variant of Orrin Lindsay's Plan of Aerial Navigation, with a Narrative of His Explorations in the Higher Regions of the Atmosphere, and His Wonderful Voyage to the Moon!)