Polar Travel

Polar Travel

With the approach of winter,  James Cummins Bookseller turns our attention to the polar regions.  This week we’re happy to present an online list of books and autographs related to Arctic and Antarctic exploration.  The list contains a number of newly catalogued items and many abundantly illustrated volumes, including a very fine set of The Polar Times, a cornerstone to any Antarctic bibliography, a beautiful inscribed copy of Phipps' account of his 1773 voyage towards the North Pole, a congratulatory letter from Frederick Cook to a fellow explorer, and a rare albumen print of one of the images that appears in William Bradford's fabled book of photography, The Arctic Regions.