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From the "L'Isole Piv Famose Del Mondo," by Porcacchi; a 1572 map from 1620 edition; *title page*

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A map by *MUNSTER*, c.1588

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From the 1628 Hondius and Jansson edition of the Mercator atlas

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Manar and Columbo, from a Portuguese atlas, 1630
Source: ebay, Mar. 2007

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

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Three towns in Ceylon: Gammalamme, Colombo, and Pointe de Galle, in a Dutch account from 1702
"This 3-city view of Sri Lanka - Gammalamme; Colombo & Galle -- was published in the 1702 French edition of  Recueil des voyages.... translated from the Dutch 1645 edition of  Begin ende voortgangh van de vereenighde Nederlantsche Geoctroyeerde Oost-Indische Compagnie, the original collection of travel accounts concerning the Dutch East India Company.  The Dutch edition was translated and edited into French by Rene Auguste Constantin de Renneville. (Ref: Tooley; M&B)."

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From "Nova tabula terrarum Cucan, Canara, Malabaria, Madura & Coramandelia, cum parte septroniali insulae Ceylon, in Mari Indico Orientali" by Gerard van Keulen, Amsterdam, c.1704

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A map by Christopher Weigel, Nuremberg, 1719

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"Magnificence du Roi de Candy en donnant audience," from 'La galerie agreable du monde (…). Tome premier des Indes Orientales.', published by P. van der Aa, Leyden, c. 1725

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From "Peninsula Indiae citra Gangem, hoc est Orae Celeberrimae Malabar & Coromandel. Cum Adjacente Insula non Minus Celebratissima Ceylon," by Homann Heirs, 1733

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From a map by de Vaugondy, 1751

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*From Rev. John Blair's "Chronology & History of the World from the Creation to the Year of Christ 1779," London*

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From a map of South and Southeast Asia by Frederico de Wit, Amsterdam, c.1790

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*From Robert Wilkinson's "A General Atlas Being a Collection of  Maps of The World and Quarters, the Principal Empires & Kingdoms," London, 1808*

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*From a map by John Archer from "Gilbert's Modern Atlas of The Earth with Descriptive Letter-Press by Robert Mudie," Grattan & Gilbert, London, 1840*

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*From Colton's General Atlas, , by J. H. Colton and Co., New York, 1857*

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FOR MORE MAPS of Ceylon, see also the **MAPS OF SOUTH INDIA** set

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