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1. Fishing Cove near Columbo

Fishing Cove near Columbo
Creator:
unknown artist
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 14 13/16 × 19 5/16 inches (37.7 × 49 cm)
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. Twenty-four views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt / from drawings by Henry Salt, Esq.

Twenty-four views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt / from drawings by Henry Salt, Esq.
Creator:
Salt, Henry, 1780–1827
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 36-79 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The history and doctrine of Budhism : popularly illustrated : with notices of the Kappooism, or demon worship, and of the Bali, or planetary incantations, of Ceylon / by Edward Upham, M.R.A.S. ; with forty-three lithographic prints from original Singalese designs.

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Creator:
Upham, Edward, 1776–1834
Date:
1829
Physical Description:
[4], vii, [1], 136 p., [43] leaves of plates : ill. ; 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. George Keyt : paintings and drawings from Ceylon, 6th January - 6th February, 1954, Institute of Contemporary Arts.

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Date:
[1954]
Physical Description:
7 unnumbered pages : cover illustrations ; 13 x 17 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Scenery and reminiscences of Ceylon / by John Deschamps, Esq., from original drawings and notes made by him during a service of nine years, as an officer of the Royal Artillery, in that island.

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Creator:
Deschamps, John
Date:
1845
Physical Description:
[4], 48 pages, [1], XII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 50 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Photograph album depicting a British family at home and relocating to Ceylon.

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Date:
1910s?
Physical Description:
1 album (175 photographs, on 47 leaves) : gelatin silver prints ; photographs 11 x 9 cm or smaller, in album 14 x 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Eight years' wanderings in Ceylon / by S.W. Baker.

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Creator:
Baker, Samuel White, Sir, 1821–1893
Date:
1855
Physical Description:
xix, [1], 423 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Naauwkeurige beschryvinge van Malabar en Choromandel, der zelver aangrenzende ryken, en het machtige eyland Ceylon ... Nevens een omstandige en grondigh doorzochte ontdekking en wederlegginge van de afgoderye der Oost-Indische heydenen : Waar inne der zelver grootste geheymenissen, zoo uyt de eygene geschriften, als t'zamenspraak, en bywooninge der voornaamste Bramines, en andere Indiaansche wet-geleerden, getrouwelijk werden aan't licht gebracht, zijnde hier by gevoeght een Malabaarsche spraak-konst; zeer dienstigh voor alle die het lust met dien landaard om te gaan ... / Door Philippus Baldaeus ...

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Creator:
Baldaeus, Philippus, 1632–1672
Date:
1672
Physical Description:
3 pt. in 1 : ill., maps, plans ; 33 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Analyses of new works of voyages and travels, lately published in London : Voyages and travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 / by George, Viscount Valentia.

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Creator:
Mountnorris, George Annesley, Earl of, 1769–1844
Date:
1810?]
Physical Description:
286, [2] p. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Map of the island of Ceylon / drawn by A. Arrowsmith ; engraved by J. Pickett.

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Creator:
Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750–1823
Date:
5, Janry. 1805
Physical Description:
1 map : dissected and mounted on linen, some hand-col. ; 95 x 59 cm., folded to 34 x 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A series of fifteen views in Ceylon illustrative of Sir J.E. Tennent's work, from sketches made on the spot, by Captain C. O'Brien, late Assistant Surveyor General Ceylon.

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Creator:
O'Brien, C
Date:
1864
Physical Description:
3 p.., 15 col. plates. 55 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. An account of the interior of Ceylon, and of its inhabitants : with travels in that island / by John Davy.

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Creator:
Davy, John, 1790–1868
Date:
1821
Physical Description:
viii, 530 p., [14] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. Voyages and travels in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806. By George, Viscount Valentia ...

No cover image available
Creator:
Mountnorris, George Annesley, Earl of, 1769–1844
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
3 v. plates, fold. maps, fold. plans. 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A narrative of the establishment and progress of the mission to Ceylon and India : founded by the late Rev. Thomas Coke, L.L.D., under the direction of the Wesleyan-Methodist Conference, including notices of Bombay and the superstitions of various religious sects at that presidency, and on the continent of India : with an introductory sketch of the natural, civil, and religious history of the Island of Ceylon / by W. M. Harvard.

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Creator:
Harvard, W. M. (William Martin), 1790–1857
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
lxxii, 404 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts