SCIENCE LOWELL PERCIVAL Mars and its Canals 1906

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LOWELL, PERCIVAL. Mars and its Canals. 16 plates; text illustrations. xv, [1], 393, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 8vo, 223x153 mm, original green cloth, spine ends rubbed, hinges cracked but binding still sound; contents clean. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906

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first edition. With pencil note at beginning of Chapter XIX (Canals in Dark Regions) on page 243: "Discovered by A[ndrew] E[llicott] D[ouglass] in 1894--no mention here of discoverer." Douglass was an astronomer closely associated with the Lowell Observatory from its founding until his dismissal in 1901 for rejecting Lowell's Martian theories.