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See note to Lot 33 - a terrestrial table globe by Malby & Co.
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MALBY & SON, THOMAS, LONDON, 1851
MALBY'S Terrestrial Globe Compiled from the latest & MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. including all the recent Geographical Discoveries. Manufactured and Published under the superintendence of the SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, BY THOS MALBY & SON MAP & GLOBE SELLERS TO THE ADMIRALTY JANy 1 1851 Engraved by Charles Malby
A fine 18-inch (45.7cm.) diameter terrestrial library globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes laid on a hollow plaster-covered sphere, the equatorial graduated in individual degrees 0-360° and 0-180°W, labelled every 5°, and in hours I-XII (x2) in both directions, further labelled every fifteen minutes with four-minute subdivisions, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the equinoctial colure graduated in individual degrees labelled every 10°, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and of the month with names, the oceans with an analemma, lines of magnetic variation, a note beneath the cartouche Published at the Globe Manufactory No 37 Parker Street, Little Queen Street, Holborn, LONDON and Note: The lines of Magnetic variation are adopted from Professor Peter Barlow's Chart in the Transactions of the Royal Society for 1838 a large table in the southern Pacific entitled TABLE OF THE ESTIMATED POPULATION OF THE WORLD COMPILED FROM THE LATEST AUTHORITIES by G.S. Brent, Fellow of the Statistical Society of London, the table divided into continents with the estimated populations of various nations and dominions, with further lists for surface area in square geographical miles, five major religions with a note The remainder various Idolatories, and animals of the globe, also with a note that according to M. Decandollé there are 40,000 species of vegetable, the oceans with innumerable other notes elsewhere such as AUSTRALIAN EPOCHA with the dates of the establishment of four major areas of Australia, various notes on population, dates of discovery and national dominion such as Yedo the capital of Japan contains 1,200,00 inhabts and is the residence of the Koubo or Secular Emperor. Meaco the residence of the Mikado or Spiritual Emperor conatins 500,000 inhabts and 6,000 Temples. , the northern Atlantic showing the bank off Newfoundland and the Course of the Florida Stream, Antarctica with largely projected coastline and entitled THE SUPPOSED ANTARCTIC CONTINENT with numerous notes such as Icy Barrier discovered by Lieut. Wilkes 1840 U.S. Navy, Clarie Supposed Land, Magnetic Pole hereabout, Mount Erebus Active Volcano 12 400 feet high, Ross's furthest Sth in 1842 and many others, the continents with some nation states delicately hand-outlined in green or orange and finely detailed showing rivers, mountains, deserts, towns and cities, China showing the Great Wall, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMEN OR TASMANIA, the islands of New Zealand labelled NEW ULSTER, NEW MINSTER and NEW LEINSTER or STEWART I., Africa with details such as Oasis of Touart, Tiaheat Salt Mine, TIMBUCTOO Pop 20'000 3 Miles round, Supposed source of the Zaire, Lake According to Native report, KINGDOM OF MUROPUA, Volcano said to be in activity, Mountains covered with eternal Snow, DOMs OF THE CAZEMBE and innumerable others similar, North America with Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA and showing Esquimaux, Loucheux or Quarrellers, Strongbow Is , Blood Indians and details of other Indian nations, with a stamped brass hour dial and meridian circle, the latter graduated in four quadrants, raised on an elegant mahogany library stand, the hand-coloured engraved horizon paper graduated in degrees of amplitude and azimuth and showing days of the houses of the Zodiac with names and sigils and each labelled First Sign (Aries) and so on, and days of the month with an equation of time, a note regarding the equation in September, another note in March reading THIS HORIZON is constructed for the first year after Bissextile. If more accuracy is required, allow a quarter of a degree towards the left hand for the second year, half a degree for the third, and a quarter of a degree towards the right hand for Leap Year, raised on four double scroll-headed quadrant supports to a central turned column with three elegant inswept feet with inlaid satin wood paquetry detail, terminating in brass-capped castors -- 42in. (106.7cm.) high
MALBY'S Terrestrial Globe Compiled from the latest & MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES. including all the recent Geographical Discoveries. Manufactured and Published under the superintendence of the SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, BY THO
A fine 18-inch (45.7cm.) diameter terrestrial library globe made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes laid on a hollow plaster-covered sphere, the equatorial graduated in individual degrees 0-360° and 0-180°W, labelled every 5°, and in hours I-XII (x2) in both directions, further labelled every fifteen minutes with four-minute subdivisions, the meridian of Greenwich ungraduated, the equinoctial colure graduated in individual degrees labelled every 10°, the ecliptic graduated in individual days of the houses of the Zodiac with sigils and of the month with names, the oceans with an analemma, lines of magnetic variation, a note beneath the cartouche Published at the Globe Manufactory N
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