Accession No

6622

Brief Description

4 1/2-inch globe of the Planet Mars, produced by Camille Flammarion, made by E. Berteaux, French, 1884

Origin

France; Paris

Maker

Flammarion, Camille [publisher] Bertaux, E. [maker]

Class

astronomy; demonstration

Earliest Date

1884

Latest Date

1884

Inscription Date

Material

wood (unknown ebonized); metal (brass); paper; plaster

Dimensions

diameter 110mm; 225mm height

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Bonhams 580 Madison Ave., New York, NY, USA, on 05/12/2012. Auction 20830: Illuminating Space: Images from a Private Virginian Collection, Bonham’s New York. Lot no. 127.

Inscription

GLOBE GEOGRAPHIQUE
de la Planete
MAR
d’apres
CAMILLE FLAMMARION
...
E. BERTAUX
Editeur
25 Rue Serpente
PARIS

Description Notes

4 1/2-inch globe of the Planet Mars, produced by Camille Flammarion after his own map, made by E. Berteaux, French, 1884.

Plaster sphere with 12 lithographed gores and 2 polar calottes. Latitude marked along meridian every 10 degrees; longitude marked along equator every 15 degrees. Sepia coloured cartography, regions and places marked in French. Sphere mounted on a turned ebonized wood stand with brass fittings.

Earliest globe published by Flammarion, and the first to be issued after Schiaparelli first recorded the Martian ‘canals’; map is based on Flammarion’s own, and adapted from Richard Proctor’s.

Condition: good, complete.

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