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In February, The Planetary Society blog published a number of old and
relatively new maps of Mars here, including one from 1962 made by the
USAF which has lots of canals and was used to plan the Mariner 4
mission - which may explain why it missed all the major features of the
Red Planet not found until almost a decade later:

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001858/

And this book from 1996 is online in its entirety and is a very readable
and useful history of observing Mars, complete with several early maps:

http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/onlinebks/mars/contents.htm

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