malby-s-18-inch-terrestrial-library-globe
Lot 4055
Malby's 18-Inch Terrestrial Library Globe
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
London, circa 1900, twelve paper gore construction, cartouche signed "MALBY'S / TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, / Compiled from the latest / & MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, / including all the recent / Geographical Discoveries, / EDWARD STANFORD / GEOGRAPHICAL PUBLISHER , & C., / 26 & 27, Cockspur Street. CHARING CROSS / LONDON Jan.y 1st 1900," the equatorial graduated in individual degrees of amplitude and azimuth, labeled with days of the month and corresponding houses of the Zodiac, with full brass meridian and raised on an Edwardian mahogany tripod stand having incurved splayed legs and brass casters.

42 x 24 x 24 in.

From a Private Collection, Washington, D.C.

Sphere and equatorial with toning and scattered surface scuffs and craquelure, with some areas of print losses; deformations to southern pole; some cracks to stand column and nicks to legs.