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Author Title Publisher Year Published Notes
Antoniadi, E.M. La Planete Mars; etude basee sur les resultats obtenus avec la grande lunette de l'observatoire de Meudon et expose analytique de l'ensemble des travaux exectures sur cet astre depuis 1659. Paris: Librairie Scientifique Hermann et Cie 1930 1st ed. 5 maps, 239 p. "Ouvrage illustre de 150 figures dans le texte et de dix planches hors texte donnant des vues telescopiques de Mars et des cartes detailles de la plantete". One of the seminal works on Mars, a classic study of the history of observation of the planet as well as a record of Antoniadi's own excellent work.
Antoniadi, E.M. trans. by Patrick Moore. The Planet Mars. Shaldon, U.K.: Keith Reid, Ltd. 1975 1st English language ed. One of the seminal works on Mars, a classic study of the history of observation of the planet as well as a record of Antoniadi's own excellent work.
Baker, V.R. The Channels of Mars Austin: Univ. of Texas 1982 1st ed. 198 p.
Carr, Michael H. Water on Mars. Oxford : Oxford University Press 1996 1st ed. 229 p. The standard work on the subject, until the findings of Mars Global Surveyor and other projects. in the early 21st century.
Cattermole, Peter. Mars: the Story of the Red Planet London: Chapman and Hall 1992 1st UK edition. A look at Mars region by region.
Cattermole, Peter. Mars: the Story of the Red Planet New York: Chapman and Hall 1992 1st US edition. A look at Mars region by region.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin 1895 1st ed. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet. 228 p.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. London: Longman, Green and Co. 1896 1st British edition. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet. 228 p.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. History of Astronomy Reprints 1978 Later limited edition of the 1895 work. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. Elibron Classics 2001 Later UK reprint edition of the 1895 work. Paperback. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet.
Lowell, Percival. Mars. Waterbury, CT: Brohan 2002 Later reprint edition of the 1895 work. Paperback. THE classic non-fiction work on the planet Mars by the most popularly influential and colorful of Mars observers. Covers Lowell’s astronomical and suppositional observations about the planet.
Lowell, Percival. Mars and Its Canals. New York: Macmillan 1906 1st edition. 393 p. 2nd of the three major books by Lowell about Mars. There was a second printing in August 1907, and it was still being printed as of 1911.
Lowell, Percival. Mars and Its Canals. Waterbury, CT: Brohan 2003 Reprint edition of the work, a facsimile of the thisd edition of 1911. Paperback. 2nd of the three major books by Lowell about Mars.
Author Title Publisher Year Published Notes
Pickering, W.H. Mars. Boston: Gorham Press 1921 Probable 1st edition. 173 p. A book in the Lowellian tradition of canals, not surprising since Pickering was Lowell's first assistant.
Pickering, W.H. Mars. Boston: R. G. Badger 1921 Probably published after the Gorham Press edition, with a larger print run. over 60 libraries own this, as compared to only 2 of the Gorham. 173 p. A book in the Lowellian tradition of canals, not surprising since Pickering was Lowell's first assistant.

 

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