Eduard Spelterini - Über den Wolken - 1928

Above the Clouds / Above them the Clouds.
Eduard Spelterini.
97 images in copper engraving "in cavo".
Foreword by Prof. Dr. Albert Heim and Emile Gaultier (editor of Le Figaro Paris).
Printing and Publishing: Brunner & Co. A.G., Art Establishment, Zürich, with no year (1928)

Yellow linen binding with a photograph on the front.
Layout: title page (p.1), Foreword (p.3-9), Directory of Images (p.10-11), about the temperature drop with altitude (p.12), photographic images (p.13-94).

Condition: good. Small signs of wear.

The book contains 97 photographic images (of which 2 are colored) that were taken from a hot air balloon. Images of the city of Zurich, the Alps and the major peaks of the Alps. Aerial photographs of Copenhagen, Cairo, and the pyramids and Johannesburg. Special photographs in which the balloon rose to great heights to photograph the highest Alpine peaks.