C[harles] L. Malby (engraver of celestial globe)
Thomas Malby & Son
Pair of 12 inch Terrestrial & Celestial Table Globes
Mahogany Stands
Thomas Malby & Son, London: 1853 (terrestrial)
Malby & Son, London: 1860 (celestial)
18 inches high; 18.25 inches diameter overall
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Pair of Malby Table Globes
19th Century
19th Century
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Each globe surmounted by polar brass hour circle, and within calibrated full brass meridian, the horizon band with engraved paper calendar and zodiac, raised on a turned mahogany tripod stand with reeded legs united by stretchers.
Terrestrial globe with geographic entities cream colored, with thick outlining in green, pink, and orange, and with some fine red outlining. Oceans olive color, and some seas and waters with green outlining. Detailed cartography. American west shown as Texas, Oregon, New Mexico, Upper or New California, and with names of various Indian tribes.
The celestial globe olive colored, with constellations shown by boundaries in hatched lines, and as classical figures and scientific instruments in tones of brown. Star "magnitudes according to Piazzi" from first to seventh, indicated by different size symbols. According to a legend near the cartouche "N.B. the 100 Principal Stars quoted in the Nautical Almanac are underlined." Key identifies different typefaces for constellations or stars named or discovered respectively in ancient or modern times and by Flamsteed, Piazzi, Havelius, Mayer, and le Caille.
Malby & Son was one of the most prominent British globemakers of the mid 19th century. The cartography on the globes was based on the work of the map publisher "The Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge." The Malby firm is perhaps best known for producing in 1849 a 92 centimeter (about 3 foot) diameter terrestrial globe for public exhibition, which was a reissue of John Addison's 1825 terraqueous globe.
Terrestrial Globe Trapezoidal Cartouche: 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 / GLOBE & MAP SELLERS TO THE ADMIRALTY / Published at the Globe Manufactory / 37, Parker Street, Little Queen Street, Holborn, London / [outside cartouche] Jan. 1st 1853
Celestial Globe Square Cartouche: MALBY'S / CELESTIAL GLOBE, / Collated from the works of / Piazzi, Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, / la Caille and Johnson, / Reduced to the year / 1860 BY JN. 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/ 18[6]0/ [outside of cartouche] Engraved by C.L. Malby
References:
Dekker, Elly and Peter van der Krogt. Globes from the Western World London: Zwemmer, 1993.
Lamb, Tom and Jeremy P. Collins (ed.) The World In Your Hands. London: Christie's, 1994. (Item 7.13 nearly identical to the offered celestial globe).