‎"BALLOONING - PICCARD, A. ‎
‎Professor Piccards Forschungsflug in der Stratosphäre. Verlau der Stratosphärenfluges und dessen wissenschaftlichen Ergebnis. Mit beiträgen von A. Piccard, P. Kipfer und anderen Sachverständigen. Herausgegeben von der Neuen Augsburger Zeitung.‎

‎Augsburg, Haas & Grabherr, 1931. Contemp. hcloth. 2 portraits as frontispieces. 128 pp., 50 illustrations after photographs on plates at end. Clean and fine.‎

Reference : 56899

‎First edition. With original papers by Piccard and Paul Kipfer. ""Auguste Piccard attracted world attention when, on 27 May 1931, ascending with Paul Kipfer from Augsburg, Germany, in a free balloon, he achieved a new altitude record of 51,775 feet. The sixteen-hour flight, which ended on an Austrian glacier, marked the first use of a pressurized cabin for manned flight."" (DSB).‎