VICTOR MELDER SRI LANKA LIBRARY
7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia.
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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.
OTHERS
- Souvenir, Christian Reformed Church, Regent Street, Colombo, 1915-2015.
(No’s 1, Donated by David Van Eyck, Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka & Cherise Pereira, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
