Thomas MALBY and Son. A Terrestrial Glob; A Celestial Globe (1860)…London 1860's Cartographer_Jean-Baptiste de Couagne Plate 205

Plate 205

Japan (“Zipangri”) is positioned close to North America (demoninated “Cuba”)

Witsen was keenly interested in maritime affairs and he practiced cartography as part of his larger studies

the plates apparently languished in New York until the beginning of the War with Mexico

From these preliminary charts

Thomas MALBY and Son. A Terrestrial Glob; A Celestial Globe (1860)…London 1860's Cartographer_Jean-Baptiste de Couagne Plate 205Thomas MALBY and Son James Wyld the younger (1812 1887) A Terrestrial Globe; A Celestial Globe manufactured and published under the superintendence of SDUK Each globe made up of a set of twelve lithographic globe gores, hand colored in outline, polar calottes, some light rubbing of the surface, later varnish. Brass hour circles. Brass meridian circles, each with a graduated engraved face. The globes mounted on their original elegant English Georgian