Oct 16, 2018 - Sale 2488

Sale 2488 - Lot 193

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LOWELL, PERCIVAL. Mars. 26 plates, including one double-page; 3 text illustrations. [2], x, 228 pages. 8vo, 220x150 mm, original cloth, spine faded and discolored; minor soiling on front endpapers, contents otherwise clean. Bookplate of F. R. Gruger. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895
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first edition of the first in a series of books elaborating Lowell's controversial theories regarding the surface details of Mars, from which he inferred the presence of intelligent life on the planet. DSB VIII, 522.