SOUTH POLAR TIMES. - [Ernest Henry SHACKLETON et al. (editors)]. South Polar Times. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1907-1914. Limited editions, vols. I-II numbers 70 of 250 copies, vol. III number 210 of 350 copies, 3 vols., 4to (276 x 202mm.) Titles of vols. I-II printed in red and black, title of vol. III printed in red and blue, numerous plates and illustrations (many chromolithographed). (Light browning, some spotting and offsetting, heavier browning and spotting to opening leaves.) Original blue cloth blocked in gilt, upper-covers with coloured pictorial onlays within a twisted rope frame blocked in gilt, g.e. (extremities lightly bumped and rubbed, endpapers browned). Spence 1094. Provenance: E.R.G.R. Evans (clipped signature mounted to front-free endpaper of vol. III). - And one other volume published by the Scott Polar Research Institute ('The South Polar Times Introduced by Ann Savours with the first facsimile of The South Polar Times, Volume IV edited by Apsely Cherry-Garrard and published on Midwinter Day, 1912'. Cambridge: 2010). Note: Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, known as 'Teddy' Evans was seconded from the Navy to the Discovery Expedition of the Antarctic in 1901-4. He was later offered the post of second-in-command on Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1913 on the Terra Nova; he accompanied Scott to within 150 miles of the Pole, however, was sent home with scurvy thus indirectly saving his life. Evans contributed to the South Polar Times with his plate 'The Terra Nova Leaving Melbourne, Oct. 17, 1910'. Provenance: The Michael Gilkes Collection (4).