A late Victorian 12 inch library table globe, Malby’s published by George Philip and Son, London 1898.The sphere applied with twelve coloured printed gores incorporating trade label MALBY’S, TERRESTRIAL GLOBE, Completed from the latest, & MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES, including all the recent, Geographical Discoveries, AGENTS, GEORGE PHILIP & SON, MAP & ATLAS PUBLISHERS, 32 Fleet Street, LONDON and dated 1898 to North Pacific and extensively annotated with principal cities, towns, rivers, lakes, mountains and other significant topographical features, the oceans with all significant islands labelled, the West Pacific with AN ANALEMMA of the equation of time, and the Equator and Eliptic lines graduated in minutes, each pole with brass hour ring and pivots for mounting within the brass meridian circle divided for degrees, resting in wooden stand with hand coloured paper horizon ring graduated in degrees in two directions, days-of-the-month and houses of the Zodiac with names and symbols and also displaying compass directions, with explanatory note between March and April including the text Engraved by Cha’s Malby, raised on three reeded turned supports with triform baluster stretcher to support the meridian ring at the base, 46cm, (18ins) high approx. Thomas Malby and Company are recorded in Gloria, Clifton Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 as working 1843-50. First as Thomas Malby alone at 22 Houghton Street, Clare Market, London in 1839, then from 3 Houghton Street, Newcastle Street, Strand 1845-48 and finally at 37 Parker Street where the firm became Thomas Malby and Son in 1851. Thomas Malby is perhaps most remembered for producing an impressive 36 inch diameter terrestrial globe based on Addison's 1825 model. Latterly the firm of Thomas Malby and Son aligned themselves as geographical publisher for The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (S.D.U.K) and innovated the inclusion of 'magnetic lines of variation' within their terrestrial globes. By 1898 Thomas Malby and Son were trading as ‘Globe and Map Sellers to the Admirality’ from 37 Tithe Queens Street Holborn, London. The Engraver’s signature to the horizon paper relates to Thomas’s brother, Charles Isaac Malby (1816, post 1868), who worked as one of the principal engravers within the firm.