LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS

VICTOR MELDER SRI LANKA LIBRARY
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THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, THEY ARE MOST WELCOME. PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.

ACQUISITIONS FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH 2024

BOOKS.

Slave In A Palanquin, Colonial Servitude & Resistance in Ceylon by Nira Wickramasinghe, 2020
The Ceylon Roll of Honour, A Record of Service in the Great War, 1914-1918 – Times of Ceylon

(No’s 1 – 2, Donated by Suren Ratwatte, Toorak, Vic)

The Story of the Sri Lanka Muslims by V. Vamadevan, 1999.
The Kandyan Wars, The British Army in Ceylon, 1803-1818 by Geoffrey Poewll, 1973.
Sri Lanka’s Foreign Policy, A Study in Non Alignment, by H.S.S.Nissanka, 1984.
Germans in Dutch Ceylon, Vol 1, translated by R. Raven-Hart, 1953.
Ribero’s History of Ceilao, Translated from the Original Portuguese and Sinhalese by E Pieris, 1909.
Sri Lanka in Crisis, Road to Conflict by Victor Ivan, 1989.
The Rebel of Kandy byC. Gaston Perera, 1999.
Lusitanian Links with Lanka by W. L. A. Don Peter, 1997.
Life of Venerable Father Joseph Vaz, Apostle of Ceylon by Fr. S. G. Perera, SJ, 1953.
Vikrama Bahu of Kandy, The Portuguese and the Franciscans (1542-1551) by O. M. Da Silva, 1967.
Honouring E. F. C. Ludowyk, Felicitation Essays, Edited by Percy Colin-Thomé and Ashley Halpé, 1984.
A History of the Southern Vicariate of Colombo, Sri Lanka by Bede Barcatta, OSB, 1991.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, The Portuguese Period, Vol 1, 1505-1565 by V. Perniola, SJ, 1989.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, The Portuguese Period, Vol 11, 1566-1619 by V. Perniola, SJ, 1991.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, The Portuguese Period, Vol 111, 1620-1658 by V. Perniola, SJ, 1991
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, The Dutch Period, Vol 1, 1658-1711 by V. Perniola, SJ, 1983.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, The Dutch Period, Vol 11, 1712-1746 by V. Perniola, SJ, 1983.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, The Dutch Peirod, Vol 111, 1747-1795 by V. Perniola, SJ, 1985
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, The British Period, Vol 1, 1795-1844 by V. Perniola, SJ, 1992.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, The British Period, Vol 11, 1845-1849 by V. Perniola, SJ, 1995.
The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka, The British Period, Vol 111, 1850-1855 by V. Perniola, SJ, 1995.

(No’s 3 – 23 Donated by Jeremy. T. De La Harpe, Strathmore, Vic)

It’s the Escalator I Can’t Manage by Goolbai Gunasekara, 1994.
Chosen Ground, The Clara Motwani Saga by Goolbai Gunasekera, 2007.
Jaffna and Colombo, A Century of Relationships in Three Plays – Ludowyke & Macintyre, 1990.
The Good at Their Best, Selected Writings of E. C. B. Wijeyesinghe, 2001.
Sophie’s Story, Premini Amerasinghe, 2006

(No’s 24 – 28, Donated by David Van Eyck, Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka & Cherise Pereira, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)

MAGAZINES.

NEWSLETTERS

‘The Harbinger” Family Magazine, Australia / Sri Lanka Welfare Guild Inc (ASWG), Vol 48, No 1, February 2024.
Community Newsletter, Burgher Association (Australia) Inc, Autumn Edition, March 2024.
Newsletter, Eighty Club Melbourne Inc, Newsletter No 163, April – June 2024.
Newsletter, Voluntary Outreach Club Inc (VOC), Vol 11, March 2024.

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