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1910Best.-Nr. 6833Colombo: Cave & Co. Printers 1910. Oblong booklet 18 x 14 cm. 16 pages. Text illustrations from black-and-white photographs. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A promotional pamphlet published by the cardamom growers of Ceylon with information on cardamom cultivation cardamom use in cooking medicine and perfume and trade statistics. The tentative date is derived from statistical data for 1909 contained in the text. Original pictorial self-wrappers. Some soil and discoloration to wrapper margins light additional wear else very good. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies. Cave & Co., Printers unknown books
1893Best.-Nr. ABC_50678Jaffna Ceylon now Sri Lanka 1893. Photograph Albumen print mounted on board 106 x162 mm gilt edges round corners. Advertisement of the photographer S.W. Lawton on verso with a lady standing next to a late-19th-century camera with the text: Additional copies or enlargements of this Photograph can always be had produced by Adams & Co London. Photograph 10 x 14.6 cm. on card 10.6 x 16.3 cm. Very interesting photograph of the first medical school in Ceylon Sri Lanka. The image shows the ruins of the clinical school founded by Samuel Fisk Green 1822-1884 a Massachusetts-born missionary in 1847 in Manipay in the Jaffna district ca. 12 km. northwest of Jaffna. On the photo a dated memorial plaque has been placed in the wall of the dilapidated hospital that reads; Tamil text In memoriam S.F. Green 1893.Greens hospital was the second oldest teaching hospital set up in South Asia. During its glory days this hospital served the community with all medical surgical departments and was one of the best maternity wards on the island. When the American missionaries left Ceylon the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India was set up and it took control of running the hospital till the present day.Having been established in 1825 by the Americal Ceylon Mission the above mentioned Batticotta seminary trained future preachers and teachers. It also introduced photography via the daguerreotype procedure to Sri Lanka. Among the earliest native pioneers of this foreign technology was Swaminathar Kanagaratnam Lawton 1851-1919 who became a well-known and popular Ceylonese photographer who pioneered various photographic techniques including photography via albumen prints. He mainly worked and studied in his birthplace Jaffna where he established his photographic business S.K. Lawton & Co. in 1876. He is credited with inventing a number of photographic processes among which was one of the earlies experiments of colour photography used in the Indian Ocean region. Among other rewards he was granted a 14-year English patent for his work on preparing paper to prevent its injury during development of the photos and he was also involved in the manufacture of one of the first cameras on the island.Fine condition minimal creasing to corners.l "Dr. Samuel Fisk Greens contribution to medical education" a prominent historical lecture/paper originally presented and published at Kulendran Hall in Jaffna in 1998; "S.K. Lawton" in: Martyns notes of Jaffna Madras 2002. unknown
Best.-Nr. 2f5265Verschiedene Verlage und Orte 1911 - 1958. Zusammen ca. 2000 S. unterschiedliche Einbände leichte Gebrauchsspuren. - Enthält: Eine Reise von Madras nach Ceylon. Britischer Raub und Verwüstung Niederländischer Kolonien von E. A. P. Dzur/ Ceylon-Masken. Der Tanz der Krankheits-Dämonen von Heinz Lucas/ John Hagenbeck Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Ceylon herausgegeben von Victor Ottmann/ Ceylon Die Insel der Götter von Annie France-Harrar/ Von Ceylon zum Himalaya von Erwin Drinneberg/ Einführung in die Tropenwelt - Ceylon - von Konrad Guenther/ Exorzismus und Heilunde auf Ceylon von Paul Wirz/ Der indische Kulturkreis in Einzeldarstellungen herausgegeben von Karl Döhring - unknown
Best.-Nr. 2d600345 beidseitig beschriebene Blätter. wohl späteres 18. Jahrhundert. Geschnitzte Holzdeckel mit Kordelbindung 205 cm x 5 cm 5 Blatt mit Randausbruch. - es handelt sich bei diesen Aufzeichnungen um Eingeborenen-Medizin oder einer Sammlung von Ayurvedischen Behandlungsmethoden/seltenes Original - unknown
Best.-Nr. 69695A program octavo 12 pages of colour photocopy signed by the entire squad of eighteen next to their portraits on the last few pages; a fine copy. The fifteen players are Jayasuriya Attapatu De Silva Vaas Muralitharan Tillakaratne Jayawardena Arnold Sangakkara Fernando Gunawardene Gunaratne Fernando Nissanka and Mubarak. Offered with a copy of the dinner menu octavo 2 pages in a card folder; it carries sixteen signatures but we make no guarantees as to the identity of any of them! 2 items. unknown
Best.-Nr. 631441924. Oblong folio. 19.5 x 29 cm. Contemporary grey cloth grey endpapers spine with manuscript title "Ceylon II". Each page with date February-April 1924. 95 black & white photographs including one panoramic view of Galle on 12 leaves of card each photograph with manuscript captions and measuring c.6 x 10 cm. The final 30 photographs being of Egypt and Europe. Some minimal fading to photographs generally a very handsome album. The photographs depict show a variety of subjects including ancient ruins natural scenery schools the native population and colonial past times like tennis and the races. 1924. hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 250161880. Very good condition. Two impressive large vernacular photographs of Ceylon Sri Lanka by the accomplished British photographer who arrived in Sri Lanka in the 1870s and opened studios in Kandy and Colombo. Scowen's images are noted for their strong compositions good lighting and high quality printing. The first photograph showing an elaborately woven covered cart pulled by two dark bullocks with villagers standing at the exterior of tile roofed shops behind. Signed in white in the print at the lower left. The second image depicting a farmer plowing a field with a pair of bullocks with an observer standing at the side and a grove of trees in the background. 11 x 8 3/4" laid down on card stock. Titled in ink below the image in period hand. unknown
1895Best.-Nr. 235381895. Good overall. Large albumen photograph depicting a Cingalese Ceylon family consisting of a grandfather father and young daughter all dressed in their finest. The young father holds a cloth parasol. The young daughter about 6 or 7 years old already is wearing fine gold ornaments including necklaces nose ring and earrings. "Colombo Apothecaries Company was established by J. Smith Finlay and W.M. Smith in Colombo Ceylon in 1883. From a small mercantile establishment the Company grew rapidly into a large general store selling most commodities. The name Colombo Apothecaries Company was established in 1892 and by this time already had a photographic department. As an expansion of this department the company acquired the negatives of Charles Scowen Company and moved their studio to Kandy where the climate was considered better for photographic work than Colombo. After the acquisition of the Scowen portfolio the Colombo Apothecaries Company produced a fine catalogue and started selling their photographs worldwide". Our thanks to Palinda de Silva for the above information. This is just such an intimate portrait with the grandfather at the right slightly blurred as if he moved during a long exposure. A good bright image some light creasing and a little chipped at edges otherwise good condition. Large photo 8 1/4 x 10 1/2" hardcover
1870Best.-Nr. ABC_501171870. Oblong album ca. 31.5 x 35.5 cm. Near-contemporary half red velvet spine rubbed/faded beige and multi-colour floral cloth sides decorated with brown woven ribbon trims the velvet and cloth cover greenish-blue pebble-grained cloth boards blue marbled endpapers the pastedowns covered with red silk. With 125 black-and-white photographic prints mounted on cardboard accompanied by numerous handwritten annotations in French on the album pages. 45 ll. A substantial and historically important late 19th-century photograph album comprising 125 photos documenting British India and Ceylon present-day Sri Lanka. Of the total 100 photographs depict India and 25 Ceylon. The album offers a wide-ranging visual survey of architecture urban life religious monuments landscapes botanical subjects and scenes of daily activity during the high colonial period. 21 photographs within the album are identified to named photographers or studios. 7 prints bear the imprint of Charles Thomas Scowen 1852-1948 of Scowen & Co. Kandy and Colombo with a further 3 issued from Scowen negatives by the Colombo Apothecaries Company after that firm acquired Scowens stock in the early 1890s. Scowen was one of the most accomplished photographers active in 19th-century Ceylon establishing his studio in Kandy by 1876 and later opening in Colombo. His work produced primarily for the tourist and commercial market is distinguished by technical refinement clarity of detail and strong compositional qualities and is today represented in major institutional collections including the Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The album also contains 1 identified photograph by Bourne & Shepherd the pre-eminent photographic firm of 19th-century India renowned for its architectural and landscape views and for its official role at imperial events such as the Delhi Durbar. 2 photographs are attributed to Lala Deen Dayal 1844-1905 the most celebrated Indian photographer of his generation court photographer to the Nizam of Hyderabad and recipient of a Royal Warrant from Queen Victoria his work is widely regarded for both artistic merit and documentary importance. Further identified material includes one photograph by the Bombay studio of Edward Taurines 5 architectural views attributed to Charles Lickfold 1846-1909 in Ahmedabad one view of the Ellora caves attributed to John Johnston and one Ceylon photograph by the German Alfred William Amandus Plâté 1859-1931.The Indian and Pakistani section includes extensive architectural and topographical views from Lahore Amritsar Peshawar Jaipur Amber Ahmedabad Baroda Vadodara Aurangabad since 2023 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Ellora Caves Bijapur Hyderabad Golconda Pondicherry now Puducherry Trichinopoly now Tiruchirappalli and Madurai. Among the Lahore subjects are views of the Wazir Khan Mosque the Badshahi Mosque the Shalimar Gardens and the tomb of Jahangir Amritsar is represented by the Golden Temple Jaipur and Amber by palace complexes zenana quarters gateways and lakeside views Ahmedabad by the Jami Masjid Sidi Saiyyed Mosque Rani Sipri Mosque and Jain temples; while the Deccan is illustrated through monuments at Aurangabad Daulatabad Fort Bijapurs Gol Gumbaz and Ibrahim Rauza and Hyderabad and Golconda fortifications.The Ceylon section presents Colombo harbour and jetty views Kandy and its lake Peradeniya Botanical Gardens Nuwara Eliya tea cultivation scenes indigenous fishing craft and a number of carefully composed botanical studies including breadfruit talipot palms bamboo ferns and ficus. The album ends with a panoramic view of Aden Yemen then an important British coaling station and strategic port at the entrance to the Red Sea.The binding shows some wear with the fabric around the boards and on the pastedowns slightly loosened. Some of the unidentified photographs display mild sepia tonal fading consistent with age. The final unidentified photograph in the India section exhibits some surface loss the album shows some foxing browning and occasional staining to the card mounts not affecting the photographs. Otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Edwards "Photography in colonial India" Emire and Art: British India 2017 pp. 110-143; Paranavitana"Image in Photographic Print in the Context of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Sri Lanka." 2009; Shinde "Photography in India" Studii si cercetari de istoria artei Seria Arta plastica 10.54 2020 pp. 107-118. ART ARCHITECTURE & PHOTOGRAPHY ASIA Ceylon India & Sri Lanka Photography hardcover
1780Best.-Nr. ABC_45700Batavia = Amsterdam 1780. Contemporary marbled paper wrappers. 8vo. With a decoration on the title page headpiece and factotum all built up from rococo typographic ornaments. First edition of an economic survey of the VOC Dutch East India Company trading posts and possessions in Asia. As might be expected it centres on Indonesia but also discusses the activities of the Dutch in other places at length: Ceylon "one of the main possessions"; Coromandel where the Dutch brought all goods from the smaller trading posts to their outpost and regional capital Nagapattinam a woman governed the region!; Malabar exporting no less than 2 million pounds of pepper cardamom and other spices yearly; Surat "a complete disorder".The book provides detailed information about the social-political structures of these trading posts the valuable goods and materials that the country produces and the way the Dutch operate with the local population. The author is very critical of the abuses in the Dutch East Indies an observation that was ahead of his time.A French translation État présent des Indes Hollandaises contenant une peinture varie et fidelle du gouvernement appeared most likely in the same year. Landwehr suggests that the two were published simultaneously and may have been printed in Amsterdam.With a manuscript list of readers from a Haarlem reading society beginning on 28 March 1780 on the back of the front wrapper supporting the date ca. 1780 in the literature. The list includes the names of prominent Haarlemmers: Joh. Enschede 2x A. Hugaart Heems Pieter Klaarenbeek and others. Wrappers and leaves slightly frayed the title page slightly soiled. Otherwise in good condition.l Cat. NHSM I 506; Landwehr VOC 1596; Rouffaer p. 62. unknown
Best.-Nr. 66573c.1880s. . Albumen print loose. Good tonal range and in good condition. [c.1880s]. unknown
1900Best.-Nr. 207382Colombo Ceylon.: Plâté Ltd. Early1900s. Eight pictorial colour postcards all captioned and numbered with the publisher's studio series versos blank in two columns 8.8 x 13.8 cms or portrait in very good condition. Eight Plâté photographic postcards the last four from their "Art series" : No. 13 A Tamil Lady in Rickshaw Ceylon No. 18 Hindu Temple Colombo Ceylon No. 20 Mohammadan Mosque Colombo Ceylon No. 36 Temple Elephants after their bath Kandy Ceylon No. 43 A typical road scene Ceylon No. 54 A Double Bullock Cart Ceylon No. 82 Street Scene in Pettah Colombo Ceylon No. 105 Street Scene in the Pettah showing Native Quarters Colombo Ceylon A. W. Plâté & Co. was a prominent photographic studio in Ceylon now Sri Lanka founded in 1890 by Alfred William Amandus Plâté a German-born apothecary. The Plâté firm was instrumental in popularizing photography on the island and quickly became renowned for its high-quality photographic postcards capturing the island's landscapes people and daily life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By 1907 their annual postcard production reached half a million. ".Plâté provides an important testimony to the development of colonial Ceylon during a crucial period of many changes and a substantive repository that provides a visual archive to support further historical research." see Benita Stambler "Maintaining the Photographic Legacy of Ceylon" on the University of Michigan's website . Plâté Ltd. unknown
1998Best.-Nr. 20040CB1998. Lizenzausgabe Colombo Vijitha Yapa Bookshop 1998 8° 352 S. mit s/w-Abbildungen und Karten Text: englisch illustr. original Pappband Hardcover wenige Seiten mit sauberen Kugelschreiberunterstreichungen sonst schönes sauberes Exemplar. Abholung im Ladengeschäft in Frankfurt am Main Nordend ggü. Musterschule möglich. Das spart die Portokosten. Pickup at the store in Frankfurt am Main Nordend close to Musterschule is possible. It saves the shipping costs. hardcover
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1932Best.-Nr. 93777Colombo: The Colombo Catholic Press Borella 1932. Paperback. Good. photos 112p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm. Modest cover wear. Some dog-earing in upper right corner. Gift inscription on first interior page. A Catholic Girls School in Sri Lanka. Wikipedia reports that the school still exists and currently has around 3500 students. The Colombo Catholic Press, Borella paperback
1920Best.-Nr. 267071920. Hardcover. Very good overall. An interesting photograph album of about 88 photographs compiled by an unknown British businessman who visits Hong Kong Colombo & wider Ceylon. He visits Hong Kong as a bachelor and here there are several amusing snapshots of men in kimonos some parading with parasols. Arriving in Ceylon the businessman seems to have been involved with either rubber or coconut plantations. He appears to marry in Ceylon. There are also 13 vernacular shots of Colombo buildings and people including a lovely Sri Lankan woman and a Chinese street seller. There is a charming image of a young coolie asleep on the bottom rung of his rickshaw. A group of 4 photos show a large white ship from various angles includes one of the captain looking at native boats alongside by photographer Karl Lewis possibly related to the Great White Fleet. Then a group of personal family portraits and one of the Forth Bridge in Scotland. Lewis was an interesting photographer of the last century. Born in Kentucky in 1865 he started as a dock worker and eventually took to the sea living all over the world. He settled in Yokohama in 1901 had a common law wife and ran small photographic printing business issuing brochures postcards and covers that were sometimes hand colored. In 1905 his catalog advertised "take any photograph sketch or draw produce 100 elegantly colored postcards for $1.75 including shipping." Over the years he found sailors and the American Navy a popular subject possibly because of sales. His postcards & photographs have become very collectible. See great white fleet website. Photograph sizes vary 3 ¾ x 4 ¾"; c x 2 ¾"; 6 x 4 ¼";3 ¼ x 4 ¼"; 4 x 5 ¾"; 6 3/8 x 4 ¾". Most images are vernacular some have numbers/letters in the image but no identified photographer other than the Lewis images mentioned above. Thick oblong photograph album 11 ¾ x 9 ½ x 2 ½". Green two-tone cloth covers with thick album board varying between brown gray and dark green backing the photographs. Boards a bit speckled corners rubbed and a bit marked but firmly bound. An interesting vernacular album of Sri Lanka and the course of this man's life. hardcover
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2000Best.-Nr. 80775Colombo Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka Ministry of Foreign Affairs c2000. Presumed First Edition First printing thus. Trade paperback. Good. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11.5 inches. Illustrated front cover. Cover has some wear and soiling. This compilation includes a variety of news stories and other documents some dated in 2000 and others earlier. Among the included documents are: University Teachers for Human Rights Jaffna Sri Lanka Information Bulletin No. 23 The Sun God's Children & The Big Lie Transcript of CNN :Insight" interview with Olara Otunnu; National Action Plan to Address the Problem of Children & Youth Affected by the Present Conflict in Sri Lanka by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sri Lanka; several items related to discussions at the United Nations General Assembly including Impact of Armed Conflict on Children: Report of the expert of the Secretary-General Ms. Graca Machel submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 48/157. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam LTTE was a Tamil militant organization that was based in northeastern Sri Lanka. Its aim was to secure an independent state of Tamil Eelam in the north and east in response to the state policies of successive Sri Lankan governments that were widely considered discriminative towards the minority Sri Lankan Tamils as well as the oppressive actions-including anti-Tamil pogroms in 1956 and 1958-carried out by the majority Sinhalese. Founded in May 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran the LTTE was involved in armed clashes against the Sri Lankan government and armed forces. Oppression against Sri Lankan Tamils continued by Sinhalese mobs with the 1977 anti-Tamil pogrom and 1981 burning of the Jaffna Public Library taking place. Following the week-long July 1983 anti-Tamil pogrom carried out by Sinhalese mobs that came to be known as Black July the LTTE's escalation of intermittent conflict into a full-scale nationalist insurgency began which started the Sri Lankan Civil War. By this time the LTTE was widely regarded as the most dominant Tamil militant group in Sri Lanka and among the most feared guerrilla forces in the world9 while Prabhakaran's status as a freedom guerrilla fighter led to comparisons to revolutionary Che Guevara by global media though Prabhakaran's actions were also widely viewed as terroristic. Initially starting out as a guerrilla force the LTTE increasingly came to resemble that of a conventional fighting force with a well-developed military wing that included a navy an airborne unit an intelligence wing and a specialized suicide attack unit. In particular India's relationship with the LTTE was complex as it went from initially supporting the organization to engaging it in direct combat through the Indian Peace Keeping Force IPKF owing to changes in the former's foreign policy during the phase of the conflict. The LTTE gained global notoriety for using women and children in combat and carrying out a number of high-profile assassinations including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993. Over the course of the conflict the LTTE frequently exchanged control of territory in the north-east with the Sri Lankan military with the two sides engaging in intense military confrontations. It was involved in four unsuccessful rounds of peace talks with the Sri Lankan government and at its peak in 2000 the LTTE was in control of 76% of the landmass in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka. Prabhakaran headed the organization from its inception until his death in 2009.16 Between 1983 and 2009 more than 80000 were killed in the civil war of which many were Sri Lankan Tamils. 800000 Sri Lankan Tamils also left Sri Lanka for various destinations including Europe North America and Asia. The LTTE has been designated as a terrorist organization by 32 countries including the European Union Canada the United States and India. Sri Lanka, Ministry of Foreign Affairs paperback
1929Best.-Nr. 29101London: Seeley Service & Co. 1929. Overall very good condition. Six photographs showing life in Sri Lanka collected for use in a Seeley Publication possibly "Things Seen in Ceylon". Manuscript captions on verso include: Harvesting Rice in a Paddy Field in interior Ceylon; Rice Farm amid Ceylon Hills paddy field; Cocoanut grove Ceylon; Giant Bamboo King of Grasses 50 to 100 ft high Peradeniya Gardens near Kandy; The Water-cart in Ceylon showing how Ceylon roads are flushed in the early morning; The Ceylong ghilhe. 3 photographs have a stamp or some indication of a press service origin on verso including Underwood and Underwood and most with notations as to reproduction size. 4 are silvertone. Sizes range 6 3/4 x 10" to 4 1/4 x 3 3/8 Seeley Service & Co. unknown
1900Best.-Nr. 250991900. A silvertone photograph showing a large boat being built by hand by a group of men in dhotis turbans and bare feet. Loose wood in foreground elementary boat yard in background. On verso is written "Tamil Boat Building". Tamils are an ethnic group from Sri Lanka. Image is 5 3/4 x 4" b&w very good condition. unknown
1914Best.-Nr. 18590Colombo: Government Printer Ceylon 1914. Very good condition. Hendrick Becker 1661 - 1722 was Governor of Ceylon from 1707 to 1716 during which time the profits of the Dutch East Indies Company in Ceylon improved significantly. With much information on the "commandements" or fortified cities of Ceylon present day Sri Lanka including Galle and Colombo key cities for Dutch East Indies trade in spices gems and tea. Under the section pertaining to Colombo Becker describes the "chief reforms and improvements introduced during my rule" including the Leper Hospital at Hendella. Also detailed descriptions of various products including arecanuts betel nuts cotton goods salt timber elephants slaves and especially cinnamon. Slim 8vo v 57pp. Blue paper wrappers title in black at front cover sml lib stamp to front cover. Government Printer, Ceylon unknown
1885Best.-Nr. 248751885. Leitch spent 11 years in Sri Lanka with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. She was co-author of "Seven Years in Ceylon" published by the American Tract Society. In this photo she is seated with a book under her arm surrounded by four adorable Sri Lankan girls. Cabinet card albumen photograph title beneath gilt edges. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2". A bit of light marking o/w very good condition. unknown
1775Best.-Nr. 21538Paris 1775. Very good condition. Detailed copper engraved map of the island of Sri Lanka or Ceylon located in South Asia near the south east coast of India with "Royaume de Candi" indicated at the center. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages". Bellin 1703 - 1772 one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century was named the hydrographer chief cartographer to the French Navy and later the Official Hydrographer to the French King. Folding 10 1/2 x 10 1/2". Strong impression very clean. unknown
Modena, Zanfi, 1991, in-8, br., pp. 365. Con numerose illustrazioni.
Sm. 8vo., Tenth Edition, on India Paper, with 38 folding coloured maps, 11 full-page maps and plans (a number coloured), numerous illustrations, plans and tables (several full-page) in the text, and a very large folding coloured map mounted on cloth in pocket at rear, some mild offsetting to blank preliminaries, endpapers very lightly age-soiled; handsomely bound in full crushed red morocco BY HATCHARDS, upper board lettered in gilt, back with five shaped raised bands, second compartment lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, wide gilt doublures elaborately tooled in gilt with a floral border enclosing multiple frames, laid paper endpapers, red, yellow and green silk head- and tail-bands, red buckram pocket, a splendid and ornate copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. IT WAS COMMISSIONED BY GUY WESTMACOTT WHOSE NAME IS LETTERED IN GILT ON FRONT BOARD (this could well be Guy Randolph Westmacott of the Grenadier Guards). A SPLENDID AND UNIQUE COPY OF THE ONE OF THE BEST EDITIONS OF THE FINEST TRAVELLER'S GUIDE TO INDIA AND SURROUNDING REGION. VERY SCARCE IN ANY CONDITION.
