THE PLANET MARS

by De Vaucouleurs, Gerard; Moore, Patrick A., trans

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London:: Faber & Faber,, 1952. Hardcover; spine ends & cover tips lightly worn; front cover tip bumped; Hayden Planetarium Book Corner label inside front cover; remnant of erased ink number `7' on front endpaper; otherwise good.. index. With 5 full-pg. b&w photos + one full-pg. b&w drawing (`Principal Details of Martian Topography'). 2nd edn. ||| De Vaucouleurs, French astronomer noted for redetermining magnitudes of brighter southern galaxies. He proposed local supergalaxy model (including the Milky Way) of 25,000,000 light years' diameter. ||| Covers: Seasonal Variation of Polar Caps; Bright Regions; Atmosphere & Climates of Mars; Dark Regions; The Canals (Schiaparelli, & theories of Lowell, Antoniadi, Slipher, Fournier).