[RADZIKOWSKI] Walery Eljasz - Illustrated guide to the Tatra Mountains, Pieniny and Szczawnica. With 58 illustrations and a map of the Tatra Mountains. V edition reworked and supplemented. Cracow 1896. order of the author. 16d, pp. VIII, 401, [1], XVI, plates 5 [including 2 illus. panoramas of the Tatra Mountains], map illus. 1. binding. common. fawn.
Banach 865. Tight margins of several pages, one plate missing (Plan of the Dunajec River flow through the Pieniny). Fifth (and penultimate) edition of the pioneering guide to the Tatra Mountains. "This guide [...] was very popular for nearly half a century, playing a momentous role in awakening a love of excursions to the Tatra Mountains and the Podtatrze, and contributing significantly to the popularization of Zakopane and highland culture in Polish society" (WET 253).
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