CHMIELOWSKI Janusz - Guide to the Tatra Mountains. [Part] 1: General part, Western Tatras. With map. Lvov 1907.księg....

CHMIELOWSKI Janusz - Guide to the Tatra Mountains. [Part] 1: General part, Western Tatras. With map. Lvov 1907; Księg. Poland B. Połoniecki. 16d, pp. [6], III, [1], 166, map ff. 1. opr. soft fawn.
Wrappers slightly rubbed, paper yellowed, minor stains, taped map tear. The first of four volumes of a highly regarded professional guide to the Tatra Mountains. "It was the first guidebook in Tatra literature for mountaineers and not just for ordinary tourists [...], it was a landmark position in Tatra guide literature and played a great role not only in the development of mountaineering, but also in learning the topography of the Tatras, establishing their nomenclature and topographical terminology" (WET 145).