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A MALBY'S TWELVE INCH CELESTIAL TABLE GLOBE, MALBY...

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A MALBY'S TWELVE INCH CELESTIAL TABLE GLOBE, MALBY & SON, LONDON, CIRCA 1860 the cartouche reading: MALBY'S CELESTIAL GLOBE collated from the works of Piazzi, Bradley, Hevelius, Mayer, la Caille & Johnson reduced to the year 1860, Agents, Philip, Son & Nephew, South Castle Street, Liverpool, the papier maché sphere applied with coloured gores depicting images of the constellations, graduated brass meridian and polar ring, wooden horizontal ring applied with a paper zodiacal calendar, on three ribbed and turned mahogany legs joined by turned stretchers, 47cm high