Malby’s terrestrial globe

Compiled from the latest & most authentic sources, including all the recent geographical discoveries. London : published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Malby & Son. 37 Parker Street, Little Queen Street, 1851. Terrestrial globe, 6 inches in diameter, printed gores with original hand colour over plaster base (lightly foxed), graduated equator,  the oceans with an analemma, engraved calibrated brass meridian ring, engraved calendrical paper horizon ring with zodiac laid on wood, supported on the original stand of three turned wooden legs united with cross-stretchers. A fine example in original, unrestored condition.

The firm of Malby & Co., was started by Thomas Malby Senior around 1839 in Houghton Street, London. The firm later passed to his son, Thomas Malby Junior, with most (if not all) their globes engraved by Charles Malby, his precise relationship to Thomas Malby unclear. Malby published globes of 2,, 6, 9, 12, and 18 inches, and in 1849 reissued Addison’s 92cm terrestrial globe, the largest English globe published in the nineteenth century. Malby’s earlier globes drew from maps from the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK), from the 1860s, Malby’s cartography was sourced from Edward Stanford.