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Carte reduits de Malaca, Sincapour et du Gouverneur dressee au Depot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine pour le service des vaisseux Francais. Par Ordre de M. de Machault Garde des Sceaux de France Ministre et Secretaire d'Etat aiant le Depatement de la Marine. Par M. Bellin Ingr. de la Marine et du Depot des Plans. Sur les Memoires et de la Carte Manuscrite du Sr. Dauge Pilote au Service de la Compagnie des Indes.
A spectacular French nautical chart of the coastal area around Singapore published in the mid eighteenth century in France. At the bottom of the map is the east coast of the Island of Sumatra above are the Straits of Malacca and the Coast of Malaya. At the tip of the Malay Peninsula is the island of Singapore which is here named "Pulo ou Isle Panjang". The equator is shown towards the bottom of the map.
The French cartographer Nicolas Bellin worked for over fifty years at the French Hydrographic Service where he was appointed the first chief hydrographic engineer of the “Depot des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministere de la Marine”. While working there he was commissioned to carry out major surveys of all the known coasts of the world. This resulted in the production of a large number of sea charts of the highest quality which appeared in many editions with varying numbers of charts. He was appointed ‘Hydrographer to the King’ and was a member of the Royal Society in London. Among the books and atlases that contained Bellin’s maps of China and South East Asia were Abbe Prevost’s Histoire Generale des Voyages 1746 and Le Neptune Francais 1753.
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