Author: ARASARATNAM, SINNAPPAH. Editor and Translator.
Title: Fancois Valentijn's Description of Ceylon
Description: Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Volume 149; 8vo; pp. xv, 395; b/w frontispiece, 8 pages b/w plates, 7 maps including 1 folding at rear, bibliography, index,original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine illustration in gilt on front, spine slightly bumped, dustjacket scuffed and chipped, tear to spine, price clipped, a good copy. London, The Hakluyt Society, 1978.

Keywords: Ceylon history European contact Francois Valentijn France French Portuguese Ditch wars Hakluyt Society