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1330899873.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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
1330245350.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0331950294.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
260101964 to 1972. Cymru Plantation Dimbula Ceylon Sri Lanka. The Cymru Estate in Dimbula was established in 1870. The invaluable ‘History of Ceylon Tea’ website only has data regarding the estate up to the year 1929. The present item provides a mass of statistical information for the years 1964 to 1972. It is entirely in manuscript in several hands and comprises 73pp 16mo written with portrait orientation in a 12.5 x 8 cm ruled notebook with 69pp in blue and red ink at the front and the other four pages in pencil at the back. In rough black cloth with brown patterned endpapers and cloth pencil-holder. Internally in good condition lightly aged in heavily-worn covers. The plantation was clearly a substantial concern: at 1 May 1964 the number of ‘Workers on Cymru’ is given as 737 with breakdown for ‘U. D.’ meaning unclear and ‘LD’ i.e. ‘Labour Day - Fridays’ and with a similar breakdown for ‘Non-Workers’ total 527 and details of ‘Labour per acre’ and ‘Workers live room’. A further breakdown of men and women workers UD and LD is given on 29 February 1968 with a total of 352 men and 322 women. The final page gives a useful list under the heading ‘OUTPUT’ ‘Optimum Crop 12000 lbs.’ of the aspects involved in the running of such a concern. These include spreading tatting rolling roll breaking fermenting sifting packing stencilling also ‘On overtime’. The notebook is entirely statistical in nature apart from a four-page list of instructions for the cultivation of ‘Coffee Arabica’ a page of ‘Bees Instructions’ and a page headed ‘Formula for pre-mix for light traffic’ as well as lists of native names of native ‘Field Staff’ both on ‘Labour. Day.’ and ‘U. D.’ Also several lists of names of employees with job descriptions planting mistblowing compost pruning storekeeper field officer ‘Creeper’ ‘Sen. Asst Clk - Rice store’ ‘Driver Cymru’ ‘boys weeding’ with some marked as ‘Ret’ retired or ‘Dis.’ dismissed. Although the information relates to the Cymru Estate mention is made of Kangales and Tangakelle. Details are given of employment wages ‘Bonuses - Excess Rates’ manuring including breakdowns for various ‘Manure Mixtures’ pruning weeding plucking nursery planting sifting estimates. Numerous tables including two full double-page ones: ‘Cymru - Manuring / Pruning Programme 64 1964’ and ‘Manuring & Pruning Programme 1965’. Also a two-page table of ‘Clonal Clearings’; four pages of statistics on ‘Sifting Gookookoya’; and full-page tables for ‘Rolling Programme’ and on adjoining pages ‘Lower Division’ and ‘Upper Division’ with nine columns headed: Fld Acs Weed Contr Jat. date of Prune Total Nitro AM Due in pencil: ‘Urea / April’ Last Yield Weed. Another table of ‘Plucking Cost Per M. T. / Yield Ra.’ Loosely inserted are two leaves one on a page torn from a calendar dated 31 March 1973. 1964 to 1972. Cymru Plantation, Dimbula, Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. hardcover
B9781346057286Hardback. New. hardcover
A9781346057286Hardback. New. hardcover
0483100196.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1331853257.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1918384509Colombo: H. C. Cottle 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 236pg; 21cm; illus; plates folded plates. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Sri Lanka Colombo: H. C. Cottle hardcover
1994G0940121158I3N00Cross Cultural Pubns/Crossroads 1994. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Cross Cultural Pubns/Crossroads paperback
20013842Ceylon History Book Committee. 2001. Hardcover. Very Good. Light rubbing on board corners. Light soiling on page edge.; 663 pages . 1550568590 . Ceylon History Book Committee hardcover
1964789595Colombo Sri Lanka Ceylon Government Railway . 1964. /Dust Jacket Included. 1964. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition hardback 4to 174pp numerous illustrations folding map present but detached otherwise clean and sound no inscriptions gilt-decorated leatherette Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper edges rubbed frayed on top edge of rear panel . Colombo, Sri Lanka, Ceylon Government Railway . 1964, hardcover
19-7805London: Ceylon Company Ltd. 1870. Folio. Single page. Very Good. Framed in mountboard. Dated September 30 1870. Signed by company secretary. [London?]: Ceylon Company Ltd., 1870. unknown
0260163902.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0484440217.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0266571980.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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
180420204AB1804. Vienna Doll 1804. 21 : 135 cm. Titel 452 pages 2 engraved platges 1 many-folded map. Contemporary boards 2 back labels. First German edition of the Account of the Island of Ceylon 1803. Published at the same time as the Weimar edition but with the addition of the two engravings depicting the natives and pearl fishing. - "Percival lived in Ceylon for three years as an English colonial officer. Here he provides a regional description of the island covering the nature of the country as well as the population and economy and the colonial history to date" Griep/L. Includes an addition by the translator on pearl fishing.- Binding stained and rubbed inside fine. hardcover
46050London : CIGM c.1920. Wooden box 152 x 80 x 70 mm with chromolithographic label on five sides one illustrated; surface wear commensurate with extensive use. The Ceylon and India General Mission CIGM was a non-denominational organisation founded in 1892. Initially its evangelical work was carried out among Ceylon’s Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus but its operations soon expanded from Ceylon into South India and then throughout whole of the subcontinent. Eventually missions were established as far away as the Philippines. CIGM merged with the Poona & Indian Village Mission PIVM to become the International Christian Fellowship ICF which in turn merged with SIM in 1989. unknown
1343882478.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1174601515.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
A9781343798168Hardback. New. hardcover
A9781343882478Hardback. New. hardcover