Aerial Photography. Airborne Camera: The World From the Air and Outer Space by Beaumont Newhall.

Hastings House, 1969. Hardcover with protected, price-clipped dust jacket.  Fine except for remainder mark in good dust jacket with chip on rear, short tears, and wear at extremities. 144 pages. Covers history of aerial photography beginning in the 1850s.  Includes aerial photography from balloons, airplanes, and from space.  Photographers include Felix Nadar, James Wallace Black, William A. Garnett, George R. Lawrence, et al. The author Beaumont Newhall, in addition to being a noted historian of photography and exhibition curator, was an expert on aerial photography from his World War II experience.  Profusely illustrated in black and white.  With a related photocopy from a 1901 newspaper laid in, about a photographer who survived a fall from a balloon while attempting a birds-eye view.