LOWELL, PERCIVAL. Mars. 24 plates. [2], viii, [2], 228 pages, with contents leaf and list of illustrations transposed. 8vo, 220x150 mm, original cloth, binding cocked, spine slightly darkened and discolored, missing portions from top and bottom; contemporary owner's inscription imperfectly washed on front free endpaper, later owner's bookplate and signature on front pastedown, contents otherwise clean. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895
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.
