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Lot 271
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$195
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Lot Description
[LOWELL, Percival (1855-1916), his copy]. MACKAYE, Harold Steele (1866-1928). The Panchronicon. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904.
8vo. Original pictorial teal blue cloth stamped in white, black, brown, and gilt (front joint and hinge repaired). Provenance: Percival Lowell (1855-1916), American author and astronomer (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. An early tale of space travel, previously owned by astronomer Percival Lowell, whose theories about a ninth planet and Martian canals helped ignite public fascination with space.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
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