Carte de L'Isle Celebes ou Macassar (1752)

Description

This is an engraved map of Indonesian Island of Sulawesi published in 1752.

Cities shown on the map include: Dondo (no longer a city but a district of Sulawesi), Tetoli (?), Condi Sanga (?), Camanga (?), Manado, Caidupa (?), Gorontano (Maybe Gorontalo), Tomine (?), Babay (?), Sederem (?), Gabe (?), Bone (Maybe Bone-Bone region), Vagiou, Tambuco (?), Renuguy (?), Buto (?), Toraja (an ethnic group from the mountainous Southern region), Soppen (?), Goa (there was a king of Goa in the 17th century), Bonpanga (?), Bencauang (?), Aengetang (?), Bannelle (?), Fort Hollandois (?), Jompandam, Macassar ou Mancacara (Makassar), Banttaim (?), Galesor (?), Talahor (?), Moder (?), Congi (?), Cooti (?), Mandar (Modern Regency of Polewali Mandar), Mamoja (Maybe Mamuju sub district), and Turate (?).

At the top of the map in French is Carte de L'Isle Celebes ou Macassar which translates to Map of Isle Celebes or Makassar.

At the bottom of the map in Dutch is Kaart Van't Eiland Celebes of Makassar which translates to Map of the Island Celebes or Makassar.

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin who lived from 1703 to 1772 was an important cartographer of the 18th century. He is understood as geographe de cabinet and a transitional mapmaker spanning the gap between 18th and early 19th century cartographic styles. His long career as Hydrographer and Ingénieur Hydrographe at the French Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine resulted in hundreds of high quality nautical charts of practically everywhere in the world. His work focuses on function and accuracy tending in the process to be less decorative than the earlier 17th and 18th century cartographic work. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bellin was always careful to cite his references and his scholarly corpus consists of over 1400 articles on geography prepared for Diderot's Encyclopedie. In addition to numerous maps and charts published during his lifetime, many of Bellin's maps were updated (or not) and published posthumously. He was succeeded as Ingénieur Hydrographe by his student, also a prolific and influential cartographer, Rigobert Bonne.

Jakob van der Schley who lived from 1715 to 1779 was a Dutch engraver and painter. He has engraved the maps and views of the maps of the Dutch edition of Prevost's Histoire General des Voyage.