9-inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Thomas Malby & Son, London: 1898

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Thomas Malby & Son
9-inch Terrestrial Table Globe
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London: 1898
Turned mahogany base, brass half meridian
14.25 inches high, 8 inch diameter base
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The terrestrial globe is canted in a brass uncalibrated half-meridian and raised on a turned mahogany stand with turned central baluster standard and dish base.  Oceans are green.  Geographic entities are cream or shaded green, some with bold yellow, green or red outlining.  Antarctica is labeled "Supposed Antarctic Continent" and is bounded by a faint, general outline, with a few areas labeled and highlighted in red, presumably to indicate more definitive geographic information, for example, around Cape Horn.  The map of the United States west of the Mississippi shows major rivers and a few states, but otherwise lacks detail, especially by comparison to American globes of this period.   An oval analemma is in the Pacific Ocean, "Shewing the Sun's declination and place in the Ecliptic every day at Noon."

An earlier version of a similar globe on a similar stand, published by Malby in 1845, is in the collection of the National Maritime Museum in Britain and pictured in Dekker, Globes at Greenwich.  Their globe is 12 inches in diameter but has similar cartography including the same notes on discoveries made by Cook, Weddell and others in the south polar region, and the same analemma.  To our knowledge, this globe, dated 1898, is the latest known dated Malby globe. Read more about Malby in our Guide to Globe Makers.

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 Tho's. Malby & Son/ GLOBE & MAP SELLERS TO THE ADMIRALTY/ 37 Parker Street Little Queen Street Holborn./ LONDON/ 1898.

Reference:

Dekker, Elly, et al. Globes at Greenwich: A Catalogue of the Globes and Armillary Spheres in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. London: Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, 1999.  pp. 404-407.