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FLAMMARION, CAMILLE. La Planète Mars et Ses Conditions d'Habitabilité. 6 plates, including 2 folding; profusion of text illustrations. x, 608; [4], 604 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 4to, 282x187 mm, modern 1/2 red morocco with black morocco lettering pieces, original wrappers bound in first volume and original rear wrapper in second; contents clean apart from slight foxing at beginning and end of first volume; cloth slipcase. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1892-1909
first edition of a compilation of all then known observations of Mars to 1901, also addressing the possibility of life existing on the planet. Crowe, pages 496-97; DSB V, 21.
