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Item Details
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| Author: |
Haig-Brown, Roderick |
| Title: |
The Salmon |
| Place: |
Ottowa |
| Publisher: |
Environment Canada Fisheries and Marine Service |
| Date: |
1974 |
| Item # : |
172506 |
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| Sale Number |
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331 |
| Lot Number |
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115 |
| Sale Name |
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| Hunting - Sporting - Angling - Natural History; with Books in All Fields |
| Sale Date |
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05/11/2006 |
| Price realized |
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$ 2070 |
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| Description: |
| 79 pp. Frontispiece and 36 color photos, 3 maps. (Quarto) 12x9, green full crushed morocco, gilt spine title, gilt inner dentelles, green morocco and marbled boards slipcase. First Edition, deluxe issue, 1 of only 7 copies. |
| Superb presentation of this impassioned plea to save and restore Canada's salmon stocks. One of seven copies specially bound by French binder Pierre Poussier for Vianney Belanger, the Montreal bindery commissioned by the Canadian government for the work. These few copies were intended for a select group of royals and heads of state, only one other copy is known to be in private hands. Cave A 185(a). |
| Condition: |
| Slight fading to spine; non-authorial gift inscription to front blank leaf, fine. |
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