PAWLIKOWSKI Jan Gwalbert, On the Lyceum of the Earth.

About the Lyceum of the Earth.

A selection of writings... Warsaw 1938. published by the State Council for Nature Protection. 8, pp. XVI, 399, portrait of the author, illustrations on separate plates, original card wraps.
Unwarranted rubbing of binding, faded spine, f. with portrait loose, own signature above table of contents. Circulation. 1000 copies. A collection of articles and dissertations by the prominent mountaineer and speleologist, Jan Gwalbert Pawlikowski (1860-1939), devoted to matters of protecting the nature of the Tatra Mountains, the activities of the Tatra National Park and the cultural landscape of the Podhale region. A significant part of the book contains an extensive, insightful and richly illustrated study of highland architecture and the "Zakopane style" by Stanislaw Witkiewicz, which is still one of the most important theoretical statements on the subject.