French lunar globe, 15cm (5 3/4-inch) diameter (1:23,000,000 scale) on ebonized wooden stand, late 19th century. The globe gores are printed by C.M. Gaudibert and Emile Beraux, Paris under the direction of Camille Flammarion a famous French populariser of science and astronomy during the 19th century. The usually blank part of the globe for the lunar farside lists 343 named craters and has the limits of the Moon's libration marked at the edge of the visible lunar surface.