The Taurus Collection: 150 Collectable Books on the Antarctic

Edited by Julian Mackenzie ~ Signed

Travellers’ Bookshop, London, 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 — signed by Julian Mackenzie on the main title page.

A pictorial bibliography of one of the finest collections of Antarctica 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.