[Rarebooks] fs: Lowell. Mars and Its Canals

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(No. 8513 )  Lowell, Percival (1855-1916). MARS AND ITS CANALS.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1911. Third thousand, Original cloth, Octavo, 
xv, 393 pages + 1 leaf of ads, Black & white and color plates. Good.
      Lowell's treatise on what he believed were canals on the surface of 
Mars, and what he thought they were. Subsequent observation from space and 
from the Martian surface itself has found no canals. Bound in dark green 
cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles, top edge 
gilt. Binding shows rubs and moderate wear at extremities, a few ripples to 
spine, and two small punctures to cloth in upper joint. Three plates have a 
semi-circular water tide mark extending 1 1/2" into the plate along 3 1/2" 
of fore edge and there are a few discreet pencil lines scattered in margins, 
but otherwise interior is clean and bright with tissue guards in place. 
$275.00
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