Manar and Columbo, from a Portuguese atlas, 1630

Source: ebay, Mar. 2007





A plan showing the Dutch siege of Portuguese-held Columbo, from 'Description of the Most Celebrated East India Coasts of Malabar and Coromandel..." by Philip Baldaeus, Amsterdam 1672; later republished by Awnsham and Churchill, 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels', London 1744; *another, more abstract plan of Columbo*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2012


Views of Colombo and Pointe de Galle, 1700, in a German version of *MALLET*

Source: ebay, June 2004





The Dutch Governor's house and gardens, in a view from Francis Valentijn, 'Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indian', Amsterdam, 1726

Source: ebay, Mar. 2015


*"The Prince of Wales passing under lotus pond arch, Columbo," from The Graphic, 1876*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2011

A fruit market in Colombo, an albumen print, c.1880's; also: *the Oriental Hotel*; *Chatham Street*; *the harbor*; *Skinner's road*; *a main street*; *Queen Street*; *a street scene*

Source: ebay, June 2008





"Colombo Port," a photo, c.1880's

Source: ebay, May 2010



The "Galle Face Hotel," Columbo, a photo c.1880's

Source: ebay, May 2010

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