Author: MATTHES, Benjamin Franklin.
Title: Makassaarsch-Hollandsch woordenboek, met Hollandsch-Makassaarsche woordenlijst, opgave van Makassaarsche plantennamen. Uitgegeven voor rekening van Het Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap.
Description: Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 1859. 8vo. Half cloth. VIII,943 pp. First edition. - The linguist-philologist B.F. Matthes was sent to South Celebes (Sulawesi, Indonesia) to translate the bible into the local languages. He made not only the earliest studies on the Makassarese and Buginese languages, but he also studied the customs and folklore of these ethnic groups. - (Without the atlas). Noorduyn, Languages of Sulawesi, p.141.

Keywords: Celebes Indonesia Indonesia linguistics linguistics