Edited by Julian Mackenzie

London: Travellers’ Bookshop, 2001. Edition limited to 500 copies, 4to., (12 1⁄2” x 8 3⁄4”), [x], 197pp., approx. 160 colour illustrations, publisher’s black cloth with gilt spine titles, dust-wrapper. A Fine copy in Fine dustjacket—As New.

A pictorial bibliography of one of the finest collections of Antarctica publications in private hands. The collection is limited to first-hand accounts, and was assembled with a view to condition. It contains many outstanding copies, some with rare dust-wrappers. “The Taurus Collection was formed with two objectives in mind: First was to obtain the finest possible copies of books on the Antarctic; second was to focus on the people and expeditions who went to the Continent when heroism was most important, ie: before the age of mechanization.”—from the introduction.

The Taurus Collection publication should prove to be a valuable resource for both written and visual documentation for key books important to documentation of exploration of the Antarctic Continent—the last, and possibly the most demanding unexplored area of our planet.

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