{"product_id":"sketch-rise-fall-catholic-church-ceylon-1w5q7xea","title":"A Sketch of the Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in Ceylon.","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery rare: a locally-printed history, tracing the activity of the church in Sri Lanka from 1518 through to the time of publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA civil servant, author, and politician, Simon Casie Chetty (1807-1860) “was one of the earliest Orientalists and Antiquaries whom Ceylon produced. Self-taught as he was, he had acquired a thorough knowledge of the Tamil, Sinhalese, Sanskrit, Arabic and Hebrew languages besides Latin, Greek, Portuguese and Dutch” (Hettiaratchi).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot on OCLC, no copies at auction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHettiaratchi, D.P.E., “Some Literary Understakings of the Late Simon Casie Chitty …” in \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain \u0026amp; Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e, Vol. 30, No. 80 (1927), pp.455-460.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47713311228061,"sku":"190265","price":750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/190265_02.jpg?v=1773201672","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/sketch-rise-fall-catholic-church-ceylon-1w5q7xea","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}