This splendid pair of tabletop globes show the very latest discoveries. This was the period when the full coastlines of the great landmasses have been finally outlined. Although many discoveries were still to be made in the interiors of the continents and these have been left blank; this is especially true in the case of Eastern and Central Africa though in the North West there is some detail in the Sahara including the marking of two salt mines in the vicinity of Timboctoo. The marking of the tracks of the voyages of Cook, Vancouver, La Perouse and Gore confirms the continuing fascination of the South Seas which is also borne out by the detailed depiction of newly discovered island groups such as Fiji and Hawaii. The celestial globe is much more fanciful with very fine illustrations of various constellations including the Zodiac and the positioning of major stars. As is usual with celestial globes of this time there is a scale showing the magnitude of star; what is not so usual is that Kirkwood has no less than seven different orders of magnitude.