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

A map by *MUNSTER*, c.1588

From the 1628 Hondius and Jansson edition of the Mercator atlas

Manar and Columbo, from a Portuguese atlas, 1630

Source: ebay, Mar. 2007

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

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

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)."

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

From a map by de Vaugondy, 1751

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

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

*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*

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

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