Kirkwood terrestrial table globe c. 1820ies

TABLE GLOBE BY KIRKWOOD & SON´S. Kirkwood´s New Terrestrial Globe with the very latest discoveries. Edinburgh, Kirkwood & son, no date (c. 1820ies?).
Terrestrial table globe, made up of 12 hand-colored engraved gores laid over a plaster sphere, brass meridian circle, four legged wooden stand with paper horizon. Diameter c. 30 cm, height c. 46 cm.

James Kirkwood & Sons published their first globes in 1804 and 1806 in association with Robert Scott, a teacher of mathematics and astronomy at Musselburgh. In 1818 Alexander Donaldson joined Kirkwood as a partner but he retired in 1823 to set up a workshop of his own.
In 1824 a fire in the High Street Edinburgh destroyed all the copper plates owned by the Kirkwood firm and they later continued their business in Dublin.

Heavily damaged and worn, cracks. The globe does not rotate freely.