The Evolution Of Worlds, Percival Lowell, 1909, First Edition
Item History & Price
Description
1902, First edition. 8vo., 8.75 x 6, (xiii), 262pp, 2pp. adverts to rear. Original publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. With 12 black-and-white plates including frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout text with photographs, diagrams and drawings.
Condition
Lacks dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown and previous owner's name stamped on half title and rear pastedown. Some scattered scuffing on front and a few ...smudges. Else very good.
About this book
Percival Lowell (1855-1916) came from a family of Boston Brahmins which included poetess Amy Lowell and a slew of Russells, Putnams and Cabots, and went down in history as the popularizer of the so-called “canal theory” of Mars. Lowell was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer. In 1894, he chose Flagstaff, Arizona as the home of his new observatory, the now famous Lowell Observatory. For the next fifteen years, he studied Mars extensively, and made intricate drawings of the surface markings as he perceived them.
1902, First edition. 8vo., 8.75 x 6, (xiii), 262pp, 2pp. adverts to rear. Original publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. With 12 black-and-white plates including frontispiece. Profusely illustrated throughout text with photographs, diagrams and drawings.
Condition
Lacks dust jacket. Bookplate on front pastedown and previous owner's name stamped on half title and rear pastedown. Some scattered scuffing on front and a few ...smudges. Else very good.
About this book
Percival Lowell (1855-1916) came from a family of Boston Brahmins which included poetess Amy Lowell and a slew of Russells, Putnams and Cabots, and went down in history as the popularizer of the so-called “canal theory” of Mars. Lowell was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer. In 1894, he chose Flagstaff, Arizona as the home of his new observatory, the now famous Lowell Observatory. For the next fifteen years, he studied Mars extensively, and made intricate drawings of the surface markings as he perceived them.
