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An attractive pair of mid 19th-Century English 8-inch diameter table globes,
MALBY'S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Compiled from the latest & MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, including all the recent Geographical Discoveries. Manufactures and Published under the superintendence of the SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE By MALBY & SON, Houghton St. Newcastle St. Strand, LONDON. 1848 J. Addison Sc with an overlaid cartouche below AGENTS, HODGES AND SMITH Booksellers, Publishers and Agents for the Sale of the Ordnance Trigonometrical Survey of Ireland. Grafton Street, Dublin, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, with gradauted equatorial and ecliptic, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the oceans an attractive pale blue with an analemma, Antarctica showing only well-detailed Graham Land, Enderby Land, L.dseen by Kemp in 1833 , Icy Barrier discovered by Lieut.t Wilkes 1840 , and Victoria Land, also with a note PART OF THE SUPPOSED ANTARCTIC CONTINENT and the South Magnetic Pole, the continents with nation states delicately outlined in orange, blue, pink and yellow, some also shaded, finely detailed with towns, cities and rivers, China showing the Great Wall, the interior with a note MONGOLS OF THE KOKONOR, Tasmania labelled VAN DIEMEN Ld OR TASMANIA , Greenland with no northern coastline, Alaska labelled RUSSIAN AMERICA (some minor fading of detail, neatly repaired dent in northern Atlantic, minor abrasion and cracking to South Pole);
MALBY'S CELESTIAL GLOBE Collated from the works of Piazzi, Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, la Caille & Johnson Reduced to the Year 1850. MANUFACTURED AND PUBLISHED under the superintendence of THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE BY MALBY & SON, LONDON. J. Addison Sc. 151 Strand., made up of twelve engraved gores and two polar calottes, laid to the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial equinoctial colure and ecliptic, the last with twilight zone, the pictorial constellations in pale orange on a pale blue ground and bounded by dotted lines, with stars to seven orders of magnitude according to Argelander and variously labelled with Greek characters and Arabic numerals with a cartouche explaining the notation of the celestial cartography (some minor fading to detail);
both with a stamped brass hour dial and cast bronze meridian circle (celestial cracked) in a four-legged table stand with hand-coloured photocopied horizon paper showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, and compass directions, the edge of the horizon ring painted red and raised on four reeded legs united by baluster-turned cross stretchers to the meridian support, a threaded brass tube for mounting protruding downwards (slightly longer than the bottom section of the legs resulting in slight instability) -- 39.5cm. (15½in.) high (2)
MALBY'S TERRESTRIAL GLOBE Compiled from the latest & MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, including all the recent Geographical Discoveries. Manufactures and Published under the superintendence of the SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE By MALBY & SON, Houghton St. Newcastle St. Strand, LONDON. 1848 J. Addison Sc with an overlaid cartouche below AGENTS, HODGES AND SMITH Booksellers, Publishers and Agents for the Sale of the Ordnance Trigonometrical Survey of Ireland. Grafton Street, Dublin, made up of twelve hand-coloured engraved gores and two polar calottes, with gradauted equatorial and ecliptic, the Greenwich meridian ungraduated, the oceans an attractive pale blue with an analemma, Antarctica showing only well-detailed Graham Land, Enderby Land, L.
MALBY'S CELESTIAL GLOBE Collated from the works of Piazzi, Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, la Caille & Johnson Reduced to the Year 1850. MANUFACTURED AND PUBLISHED under the superintendence of THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE BY MALBY & SON, LONDON. J. Addison Sc. 151 Strand., made up of twelve engraved gores and two polar calottes, laid to the celestial poles, with graduated equatorial equinoctial colure and ecliptic, the last with twilight zone, the pictorial constellations in pale orange on a pale blue ground and bounded by dotted lines, with stars to seven orders of magnitude according to Argelander and variously labelled with Greek characters and Arabic numerals with a cartouche explaining the notation of the celestial cartography (some minor fading to detail);
both with a stamped brass hour dial and cast bronze meridian circle (celestial cracked) in a four-legged table stand with hand-coloured photocopied horizon paper showing degrees of amplitude and azimuth, days of the month and of the houses of the Zodiac, and compass directions, the edge of the horizon ring painted red and raised on four reeded legs united by baluster-turned cross stretchers to the meridian support, a threaded brass tube for mounting protruding downwards (slightly longer than the bottom section of the legs resulting in slight instability) -- 39.5cm. (15½in.) high (2)
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