Percival Lowell
Mars and Its Canals
Hardcover
(The Macmillan Company March 15, 1908)
, 1st edition
This landmark writing on modern astronomy, published in 1906, contains 393 pages. The impressive green hardcover boards contain gilt lettering and page edges. The book's author, Percival Lowell, moved to Flagstaff, Arizona in 1894 where he founded the Lowell Conservatory to study Mars. For the next fifteen years Lowell studied Mars extensively, making intricate drawings of the surface markings as he perceived them. During this period he also formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto fourteen years after his death. This handsome copy of an important treatise on the early exploration of Mars contains particular reference to the canals on its surface.
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