Old print Vue D’Achem Banda Aceh Sumatra Bellin 1753

Titled: Vue D’Achem
(Banda Aceh)

Banda Aceh Antique old engraving of Atjeh or Acheh Sumatra by the cartographer Nicolas Bellin.
This original print is titled VUE D’ACHEM (Banda Aceh) and puplished in Prevost L`Histoire Generale des Voyages by Bellin in 1753.
Aceh is a special region of Indonesia. Its first full name: Aceh Darussalam (1205-1959) was given by Sultan Meurah Johan Syah bin Adi Genali of Lingga Gayo.

Cartographer: Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) 
(Royal Hydrographer, engineer of the French Navy and member of the Royal Society)
For: Antoine-François Prevost's 
" L`Histoire Generale des Voyages" 
Published by Pierre de Hondt, The Hague 
between 1747 -1780.