Thomas, Georges.
Contenu
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Nom
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Thomas, Georges.
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Date de mort
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Post 1932
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Couverture temporelle
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4/4 19th - 1/4 20th century.
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Couverture spatiale
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Paris
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Société
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Girard, Barrère & Thomas (1946).
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Biographie
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Globe-maker and globe publisher, successor to Bertaux. Among globes he distributed was the 'Navisphere' (a globe for marine instruction of A. Huë (qv) and A. Bretel (1). Among his stock in 1911 was the Flammarion/ Gaudibert Moon globe, the Flammarion/Antoniadi Mars globe, the Flammarion/Fenet celestial planisphere with volvelle, a revised edition of the Flammarion/Fouché celestial planisphere, the Flammarion Gaudibert lunar map, the 'Disques Moreaux', a set of card discs printed with projections of the terrestrial or the celestial sphere (3), relief details of the moon sculpted in plaster, and a range of astronomical instruments including telescopes and clockwork driven planetaria (4). He was active from at least 1887 to 1925 (5).
Globe sizes: 9cm.4
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Notes biographiques
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1. Eg Christies' 2.4.2010 lott 558.
26cm5
2. Advt in Flammarion, Annuaire astronomique,1911. Supplement to Catalogue [1911].
3. For a set see Tesserac t 73, N° 7.
4 Deburaux 16. 6. 11 lot 85; Deburaux 15. 3. 14, lot 59.
5. Data BnF.
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Bibliographie
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Dernières publications: supplément au catalogue [1911]
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Adresse ; enseigne ; période ; source
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23, r Serpette Paris
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11, r. Sommerard Paris Flammarion, Annuaire astronomique, 1911
44, rue Notre Dame des Champs, Paris
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Identifiant
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1733
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