Fammarion, Nicolas Camille: Marsglobe; 1898 Start Price USD 10,250.00 Current Price USD 10,250.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, November 07, 2008 End Time Friday, November 21, 2008 Location Krems an der Donau See more about 'Fammarion, Nicolas Camille: Marsglobe; 1898' Description Very Rare Marsglobe, Camille Flammarion; 1898Paris after 1896, "Globe Géographique / de la Planète / Mars / d'après / Camille Flammarion / par E.Antoniadi / E. Bertaux, Editeur, Paris".Diameter of the globe: 15 cmHeight: 32 cm.Papiermache with 12 colored lithographic paper segments. wooden stand, metal holderSegments browned, a little worn, some small wrinkles, some smll tears, 3 small dents an a small hole, stand painted black, worn and some small scratches, mounting a little looseNicolas Camille Flammarion (26. 02.1842 - 03.06.1925) was a French astronomer and author. He is commonly referred to as Camille Flammarion.He was the brother of Ernest Flammarion (1846-1936), founder of the Groupe Flammarion  publishing house.He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and several works about Spritualism and related topics. He also published the magazine L'Astronomie, starting in 1882..He was a founder and the first president of the Société Astronomique de France, which originally had its own independent journal, BSAF (Bulletin de la Société astronomique de France), first published in 1887. In January, 1895, after 13 volumes of L'Astronomie and 8 of BSAF, the two merged, making L'Astronomie the Bulletin of the Societé. The 1895 volume of the combined journal was numbered 9, to preserve the BSAF volume numbering, but this had the consequence that volumes 9 to 13 of L'Astronomie can each refer to two different publications, five years apart of each other. (Source: Wikipedia) Place a Bid!