Although only the first of Cook's voyages is labelled, the cartography of this globe displays knowledge of the discoveries of his third and final trip, published posthumously in 1784. It can be dated prior to 1789, however, when Mackenzie made his explorations of Canada.
The Christie's Globe sale of 27 November 1997 included two globes with similar cartography and typography and identical trade labels (Lots 1 and 2, p.5), and the catalogue note for Lot 1 outlines a hypothesis for the possible authorship of the globes: they were quite possibly issued by George Adams Jnr (1750-1795), re-engraved from the plates of Hermann Moll's (d.1732) pocket globe of 1710, from the stock of John Senex which Adams had acquired on the latter's death in 1755. See also note to Lot 98.