COPERNICAN PLANETARY AND STELLAR GLOBE OF THE BERTAUX SYSTEM End of the 19th century The mahogany veneered pedestal consists of a square base with a turned part, containing the gears activated by a crank (missing) and driving the movement of the nine ivory planets, six mounted on curved arms by collar to the central conical column; the Earth and Moon and the two lower planets mounted on a rectangle of gears turning around the Sun, in the centre, represented by a gilded brass sphere ; the Moon, with its own inclined orbit around the Earth; the Earth, represented by a printed and coloured paper globe; at the bottom and around the central column, a brass plate engraved with the four cardinal points and a zodiac with each of the signs, named, divided into parts of 1°, 5° and 10°, and numbered every 10°; the whole contained in a glass sphere bearing the constellations indicated by stars, cut out of paper, stuck inside the globe. H.64 cm (25 ¼ in.) D.: approx. 43 cm (approx. 17 in.) A Copernician planetary and stellar globe of the Bertaux system, late 19th century, on a mahogany stand Authorised for sale in the European Union. Autorisation to sell within the EU. *Information for buyers: If you are leaving the EU, you may need to obtain a CITES re-export certificate, which is the responsibility of the future buyer. *Information to the buyers : For an exit from the EU, a CITES re-export certificate will be necessary, at the buyer's expense. One example of this sundial, signed 'Bertaux, géographe 25 rue Serpente Paris 1892', is in the collections of the Musée de la Marine, Paris (Inv. 15 NA 13). Five other examples are known, all of similar shape and size. Emile Bertaux (1840-1903) was a publisher of works of geography - books, globes and spheres - and in particular of special globes. Among others, he published the globe of the moon by C. M. Gaudibert and Camille Flammarion, the globe of Mars by E. Antoniadi (1884) and a metric terrestrial globe as well as planispheres for the newspaper Le Ciel, globes by Ch. Dien, Dubail, the navisphere by De Magnac and globes illustrating sphereography by Chantcourtois. He was awarded a bronze medal at the 1867 Exhibition. In 1875 Bertaux became director of the Maison Delamarche. He was a founding member of the Société Astronomique de France, serving as secretary and treasurer. In 1903 he received their Ladies' Prize for his services.