29th Nov, 2017 9:00 GMT/BST

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Lot 153
 

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Haig-Brown (Roderick) The Salmon. Canada's Plea for a Threatened Species, 1974, Ottawa, Environment

Haig-Brown (Roderick)
The Salmon. Canada's Plea for a Threatened Species, 1974, Ottawa, Environment Canada (Fisheries and Marine Service), four large paper portfolios (560 x 435mm) containing a total of 21 high quality plates reproducing silkscreen prints by Bill Reid, works by David Denbigh, Rudi Kovach, and some 19th century illustrators/engravers (complete), with separate pp. [8] explanatory text and souvenir booklet 'The Ceremony of the First Salmon', both in the same size; with quarto text volume, in half morocco housed in larger cloth-covered wooden box, relief metal plaque of Reid's salmon to fold-over cover; the box in its original silver card slipcase with armorial label. Overall size 610 x 470 x 40mm.
Some spotting to upper wrap of key text, and very faintly to margin of some plates, the outer cloth a little rubbed, otherwise a very fine copy with only small signs of handling (A lavish souvenir possibly intended for select delegates to the Law of the Sea Conference in Caracas, Venezuela, June 1974) (1)

Sold for £500
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

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