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A pair of English 12-inch table globes,
by Thomas Malby & Sons, the terrestrial with modern reproduced gores -- 47cm. (18½in.) high
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The terrestrial 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.S MALBY & SON GLOBE & MAP SELLERS TO THE ADMIRALTY Jan.y 1st.1854 Engraved by C. Malby. There is an overlaid section of cartouche, which appears to be original, on the lower part of the main cartouche, reading C.H. CHADBURN Optician &c to H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. AGENT LIVERPOOL. The globe is made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured, finely reproduced gores and two polar calottes; some of the text has been written over by hand in black ink. The equatorial is graduated in degrees, hours and minutes in both directions; the equinoctial colure is graduated in degrees; the Greenwich meridian is ungraduated; the ecliptic is graduated in days of the month and twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac. The oceans have an analemma and lines of magnetic variation; the continents show nation states variously outlined or shaded in pale yellow, green and red with rivers, towns and cities (slight cracking to South Pole);
the celestial MALBY'S CELESTIAL GLOBE Collated from the works of Piazzi, Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, la Caille and Johnson. Reduced to the year 1860 BY J. ADDISON MANUFACTURED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE BY MALBY & SON, 37, Parker St. Little Queen St. Holborn JAN. 1. 1852. The cartouche is surrounded by a magnitude table and explanations of notation and cartography. The globe is made up of two sets of twelve lithographed gores and two polar calottes, laid to the celetial poles. The equatorial is graduated in degrees, hours and minutes; the colures are graduated in degrees; the ecliptic is graduated in days of the month and twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac and twilight zone. The constellations are depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, in orange stippling on a green ground, each bounded by dotted lines, with stars to seven orders of magnitude, variously labelled according to the catalogue of their source (large neatly repaired cracking to southern hemisphere with some discolouration);
both spheres have a stamped brass hour dial and meridian circle. The (original) engraved paper horizon is graduated in degrees in both directions, with thirty-two compass points, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac and an equation of time. The mahogany horizon is raised on three ebonised and baluster turned legs, united by turned cross stretchers. (2)
by Thomas Malby & Sons, the terrestrial with modern reproduced gores -- 47cm. (18½in.) high
See Colour Illustration and Details
The terrestrial 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.S MALBY & SON GLOBE & MAP SELLERS TO THE ADMIRALTY Jan.y 1st.1854 Engraved by C. Malby. There is an overlaid section of cartouche, which appears to be original, on the lower part of the main cartouche, reading C.H. CHADBURN Optician &c to H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT. AGENT LIVERPOOL. The globe is made up of two sets of twelve hand-coloured, finely reproduced gores and two polar calottes; some of the text has been written over by hand in black ink. The equatorial is graduated in degrees, hours and minutes in both directions; the equinoctial colure is graduated in degrees; the Greenwich meridian is ungraduated; the ecliptic is graduated in days of the month and twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac. The oceans have an analemma and lines of magnetic variation; the continents show nation states variously outlined or shaded in pale yellow, green and red with rivers, towns and cities (slight cracking to South Pole);
the celestial MALBY'S CELESTIAL GLOBE Collated from the works of Piazzi, Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, la Caille and Johnson. Reduced to the year 1860 BY J. ADDISON MANUFACTURED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE BY MALBY & SON, 37, Parker St. Little Queen St. Holborn JAN. 1. 1852. The cartouche is surrounded by a magnitude table and explanations of notation and cartography. The globe is made up of two sets of twelve lithographed gores and two polar calottes, laid to the celetial poles. The equatorial is graduated in degrees, hours and minutes; the colures are graduated in degrees; the ecliptic is graduated in days of the month and twelve times 1-30° with sigils for the houses of the Zodiac and twilight zone. The constellations are depicted by mythical beasts and figures and scientific instruments, in orange stippling on a green ground, each bounded by dotted lines, with stars to seven orders of magnitude, variously labelled according to the catalogue of their source (large neatly repaired cracking to southern hemisphere with some discolouration);
both spheres have a stamped brass hour dial and meridian circle. The (original) engraved paper horizon is graduated in degrees in both directions, with thirty-two compass points, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac and an equation of time. The mahogany horizon is raised on three ebonised and baluster turned legs, united by turned cross stretchers. (2)
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