Lot 154

A pair of Regency celestial and terrestrial library table globes By James Kirkwood of Edinburgh
















Auction: 10 December 2008 at 11:00 GMT
£3,500
Description
of traditional design with brass meridian rings, on slender turned and ebonised baluster stands, one with associated papers, one maker's cartouche dedicated the Royal Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, the other inscribed: 'Engraved and Published as the Act directs, J.Kirkwood & Son Edinburgh & Alexander Donaldson, South Niddry Street 1818' (2)
Dimensions
43cm diameter, 47cm high (internal of horizon: 31cm diameter)















