GLOBE CURIOSITIES, ARMILLARY SPHERES and ORRERIES
MALBY & SON, Thomas., London (fl. 1840-1900)
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MALBY & SON, Thomas., London (fl. 1840-1900)
MALBY'S terrestrial globe, compiled from the latest AND MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, including all the recent Geographical Discoveries. Manufactured and Published under the superindentance of the SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, BY THos. MALBY & SON MAP AND GLOBE SELLERS TO THE ADMIRALTY engraved by Charles Malby JANy. 1, 1859, with an additional label inscribed EDWARD STANFORD, AGENT, 6 CHARING CROSS, LONDON
A pair of 18-inch (45.7cm.) diameter library globes, each made up of twelve hand coloured engraved paper gores, the terrestrial showing the lines of variation at the time, various unusual inscriptions including at the Society Islands volcanic lofti and fertile inhabitants brown and handsome and gentle now mostly Christians, and at COOKS OR HERVY ISLANDS pop. 18000 much civilised by the missionaries, with an analemma and unusual tables of the estimated population of the world compiled from the latest authorities by G.S. Brent, Fellow of the Statistical Society of London, with additional colonisation table for Australia, South Island of New Zealand labelled Middle Island, the African continents labelled with nation states as known at the time, with additions of the Kingdom of Muropua, Fezzan, Dominions of the Cazemure, Lake Victoria labelled as "lake according to native report" (some minor abrasions, small cracks to North Pole, the Antarctic continent with abrasions and some damage); the celestial dated 1858, the maker's label inscribed MALBY'S CELESTIAL GLOBE, exhibiting the whole of the STARS, contained in the catalogues of Piazzi, Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, la Caille, and Johnson, the Double Stars from Sir W. Herschel & Struve reduced to the year 1860, BY Jno. ADDISON, MANUFACTURED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDANCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, By MALBY & SON. 37 Parker Street, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, LONDON, 1858, the constellations traced in outline and represented by scientific instruments, mythical beasts and figures, the stars shown by magnitude, with table of explanations and abbreviations (some old surface abrasions and minor paper loss at the south celestial pole, crack at the celestial equator from approximately 60° to 175°, both globes with engraved brass hour circles, the meridian rings with guide rails, the engraved and coloured horizon rings with Zodiac and calendar scales, mounted on reeded and turned mahogany legs united by turned stretchers -- overall height 25½in. (64.8cm.)
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MALBY'S terrestrial globe, compiled from the latest AND MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, including all the recent Geographical Discoveries. Manufactured and Published under the superindentance of the SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, BY THos. MALBY & SON MAP AND GLOBE SELLERS TO THE ADMIRALTY engraved by Charles Malby JANy. 1, 1859, with an additional label inscribed EDWARD STANFORD, AGENT, 6 CHARING CROSS, LONDON
A pair of 18-inch (45.7cm.) diameter library globes, each made up of twelve hand coloured engraved paper gores, the terrestrial showing the lines of variation at the time, various unusual inscriptions including at the Society Islands volcanic lofti and fertile inhabitants brown and handsome and gentle now mostly Christians, and at COOKS OR HERVY ISLANDS pop. 18000 much civilised by the missionaries, with an analemma and unusual tables of the estimated population of the world compiled from the latest authorities by G.S. Brent, Fellow of the Statistical Society of London, with additional colonisation table for Australia, South Island of New Zealand labelled Middle Island, the African continents labelled with nation states as known at the time, with additions of the Kingdom of Muropua, Fezzan, Dominions of the Cazemure, Lake Victoria labelled as "lake according to native report" (some minor abrasions, small cracks to North Pole, the Antarctic continent with abrasions and some damage); the celestial dated 1858, the maker's label inscribed MALBY'S CELESTIAL GLOBE, exhibiting the whole of the STARS, contained in the catalogues of Piazzi, Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, la Caille, and Johnson, the Double Stars from Sir W. Herschel & Struve reduced to the year 1860, BY Jno. ADDISON, MANUFACTURED AND PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDANCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, By MALBY & SON. 37 Parker Street, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, LONDON, 1858, the constellations traced in outline and represented by scientific instruments, mythical beasts and figures, the stars shown by magnitude, with table of explanations and abbreviations (some old surface abrasions and minor paper loss at the south celestial pole, crack at the celestial equator from approximately 60° to 175°, both globes with engraved brass hour circles, the meridian rings with guide rails, the engraved and coloured horizon rings with Zodiac and calendar scales, mounted on reeded and turned mahogany legs united by turned stretchers -- overall height 25½in. (64.8cm.)
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