A very beautiful photographic record of full page photographs (in high quality photo gravure technique)
featuring topography, famous architecture, breathtaking landscape, large rivers, salmon fisher men, farm scenes, animals, bridges, waterfalls, totem poles, villages, people, mountains, glaciers, native Americans [Indians], culture and arts of Canada in the 1920s.
Depicted are Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Northwest Territories
This precious book was not affordable by too many people at that time.
And there is no other book of that time which comes close to the printing quality of that title.
Photographs titled in English, German, French and Italian.
From the series "Orbis Terrarum" , a series of early photobooks portraying the regions of the world.
from the 1st [and only] edition with only 10,000 copies
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