Although the name of cartographer Pierre Lapie (1799-1850) appears on globes by Bastien and Langlois, no globes of his own manufacture are recorded. Despite the somewhat lamentable condition of the present example, it is still apparent that Lapie was a cartographer and globe-maker of elegance and sophistication, and it is interesting to note the presence of the tracks of Louis Antoine de Bougainville. His name rarely appears amongst the more common ones of Cook, Vancouver, La Perouse et all, and in fact Dekker records him on only two: once on the 1792 Klinger globe, and then only as having discovered land off New Guinea, and once similarly briefly on Philipp Cella's collapsible globe of 1831.