WITKIEWICZ S. - At the pass. Impressions and images from the Tatra Mountains. Issue I. Woodcuts in the text....

WITKIEWICZ Stanislaw - Na przełęczy. Impressions and images from the Tatra Mountains. Decorated with 135 woodcuts in the text. Warsaw 1891; Gebethner and Wolff. 4, p. [4], 254, tabl. rozkł. 1. psk binding of period with preserved cover broch.
Banach 844. spine and covers clearly rubbed, taped (with tape, unfortunately) transverse tear of brochure cover, minor stains inside. Edition I. One of the most beautiful books on the subject of the Tatra Mountains illustrated with excellent drawings by the author. On a two-page plate a view of Morskie Oko. "'At the Pass' represents the pinnacle in the literary sense of the development of this ideology, which has been called succinctly 'Chalubinism' in the history of tourism and in the history of Polish culture [...]. It constitutes [...] 'Na przełęczy' a summary of all the most important achievements of nineteenth-century Polish literature about the Tatra Mountains" (J. Kolbuszewski "Tatry w literaturze polskiej 1805-1939". Kr. 1982, p. 276).