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*[https://archive.org/details/ThreemonthsPaha00Hubb ''Three Months in Pahang in Search of Big Game : A Reminiscence of Malaya''] by Theodore R Hubback, 1912 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/illustratedguide00harr ''An illustrated guide to the Federated Malay States''] edited by Cuthbert Woodville Harrison, Malayan Civil Service. 3rd edition 1920. Archive.org. Missing the Map. [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2955 1923 edition] Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia
→Historical books online
* Also see some Maps in Historical books online, below.
===Historical books online===
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my Repositori Digital] Digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia. Book files are available as pdf downloads. Contains some books in English, although it does not appear possible to browse the English language books as a distinct category. For some books the “date of issue” appears to br be the digitization date, rather than the date of publication. A number of the English language books are in the category [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/1/111/browse Koleksi Peribadi]. [http://www.aseanlibrary.org ASEAN Digital Library] contains some content from the National Library of Malaysia, and can be searched by language.:Books available from NLM include(and others are listed later):*:*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2728 ''Notes from the Sarawak Gazette 1909-1915''] by J C Moulton**[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2777 ''Malaysia and Indo-China : Information for Visitors to British Malaya, Dutch-Indies (Java, Bali, Sumatra etc.) Siam, French Ind0-China'']. Published by Thos. Cook & Son, Singapore 1926.**[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2533 ''Malaya and Singapore Survey Directory of Churches and Missions in the Federation and Colony''] by V A Chelliah, No date in catalogue but c 1948*:*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2017 "Kelantan During World War 1"] by W E Pepys. Article from ''Malaya in History'' July 1960.*:*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2031 ''The Last of The Creepers: Memoirs of A Malayan Rubber Planter 1907-1917''] by C R Harrison, 1961. This is an article from ''Malaya in History'', Volume 7, No 1, September 1961. A Creeper is variously described as described as a very new junior assistant,<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Sb-JAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA31&pg=PA28 Page 28, "Chapter 2: Creeping in Johore April 1930- December 1930], ''Malayan Spymaster: Memoirs of a Rubber Planter, Bandit Fighter and Spy'' by Boris Hembry 2011 Google Books.</ref> a novice assistant<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ADgUCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA208 Page 208, "Chapter 13: The Planter’s World"], ''The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber'' by John Tully 2011. Google Books</ref> or an assistant planter.<ref>[http://www.christopherhalemedia.org/2013/01/the-planters-life/ "The Planter’s Life"] by Christopher Hale, January 2013.</ref>*:*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2058 ''Untapped Historical Source: Rest House Register Books''] by Robin W Winks April 1964**[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2441 ''Planters and speculators : Chinese and European agricultural enterprise in Malaya, 1786-1921''] by James Charles Jackson 1968.: Note this website is in the past was often unavailable, and possibly may only be available during office hours, Monday to Friday: 8.00 am - 5.00 pm (local time), being GMT 00.00 to 9.00am
*[http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Sejarah Melayu Library] (abrizain.org) has an extensive collection of English language historical books to download as pdfs, with some to also read as text. Click on the titles for further details of the author and year published. If you prefer to read original images, look at the text version (if available), as for some books, it may be apparent they are available on websites such as Archive.org or Google Books. Books available include
**An extensive collection of ''Journals of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' (SBRAS) which became the '' Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' (MBRAS). Click on individual journal issues, and the contents will be shown. These do not seem to be complete issues, but selected articles.
*[https://archive.org/details/furtherindia00clif ''Further India: being the story of exploration from the earliest times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China''] by Hugh Clifford 1904 with [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n472/mode/1up Orographical Map and Political Map of Farther India] and [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n473/mode/2up Index] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu3192402312277 ''Historical tombstones of Malacca, mostly of Portuguese origin, with the inscriptions in detail and illustrated by numerous photographs''] by Robert Norman Bland 1905 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/elephantseladan00hubbgoog ''Elephant & Seladang Hunting in the Federated Malay States''] By Theodore R Hubback 1905 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/ThreemonthsPaha00Hubb ''Three Months in Pahang in Search of Big Game : A Reminiscence of Malaya''] by Theodore R Hubback 1912 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/malaytinfieldsmi00stokrich ''Malay Tin-fields; mining position broadly reviewed''] by Ralph S. G Stokes1906 Archive.org Reprinted from the ''Straits Times''
*[https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_42706_guttaperchaofthemalaypeninsula1907 "Gutta-Percha Trees of the Malay Peninsula"] by J S Gamble, ''Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Bulletin of Miscellaneoue Information'' No 4 1907. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924077183295 ''Through the Malay Archipelago''] by Emily Richings 1909 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023134376 ''The Malay Peninsula : a Record of British Progress in the Middle East''] by Arnold Wright and Thomas H Reid 1912 with a [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924023134376#page/n421/mode/1up 1912 Map of the Malay Peninsula] Archive.org
*''Bibliotheca Indosinica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à la péninsule indochinoise [Biblioteca Indosinica: Bibliographic dictionary of books on the Indochinese Peninsula]'' by Henri Cordier 1912 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecaindos02cord#page/n7/mode/2up "Péninsule Malaise", Volume II] [Malay Peninsula]. Includes English publications. [https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecaindos02cord#page/752/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecaindos04cord#page/1524/mode/2up Index of authors]; [https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecaindos04cord#page/112/mode/2up Alphabetical Index for all volumes]
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924011085457 ''Federated Malay States Railways : pamphlet of information for travellers : tours in the Malay Peninsula''] 1914 Archive.org. Includes
**[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924011085457#page/n78/mode/1up Map of Singapore Town]
**[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924011085457#page/n86/mode/1up Map of the Malay Peninsula]
:[https://archive.org/details/illustratedguide00harr ''An illustrated guide to the Federated Malay States''] edited by Cuthbert Woodville Harrison, Malayan Civil Service. 3rd edition 1920. Archive.org. Missing the Map. [http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2955 1923 edition] Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia
:[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2777 ''Malaysia and Indo-China : Information for Visitors to British Malaya, Dutch-Indies (Java, Bali, Sumatra etc.) Siam, French Ind0-China'']. Published by Thos. Cook & Son, Singapore 1926. Pdf download, National Library of Malaysia.
*[https://archive.org/details/ruralsanitationi00wats ''Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands''] by Sir Malcolm Watson 1915 Archive.org. There are two chapters on Malaya relating to malaria.
*[https://archive.org/details/lauterbachofchin00lowe ''Lauterbach of the China Sea : the Escapes and Adventures of a Seagoing Falstaff''] by Lowell Thomas, 1930 Archive.org. During WW1 Julius Lauterbach was navigator on the German SMS Emden and subsequently was a prisoner in Singapore at Tangling prison camp [https://archive.org/stream/lauterbachofchin00lowe#page/94/mode/2up page 95], and helped ferment dissatisfaction which led to the 1915 Singapore Mutiny, during which he escaped and fled, initially to Sumatra.
*[https://archive.org/details/Tapiocaitsmanyu00EsCh ''Tapioca and its many uses : a rice substitute for Malaya''] by Leopold Es Chasseriau, 1919. Archive.org. A reprint from the ''Pinang Gazette''
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023392750 ''Trapping Wild Animals in Malay Jungles''] by Charles Mayer 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023048931 ''In Rubber Lands : an account of the work of the church in Malaya''] by C E Ferguson-Davie, 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/Malaypoisonscha00Giml ''Malay Poisons and Charm Cures''] by John D Gimlette, Residency Surgeon of Kelantan, 2nd revised edition 1923, first edition 1915. Archive.org.
*''The Empire at War'' edited for the Royal Colonial Institute by Sir Charles Lucas, in five volumes, with a [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1003532 catalogue contents description]. ([http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022549242.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1107.9974%2C-93.2973%2C3908.9948%2C2833.5945 Volume 1] British Library Digital file) Volume 5, 1926, covers WW1 The Mediterranean colonies ; Egypt and Palestine ; Aden ; India ; Ceylon ; Malaya ; China. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Volume 5], British Library Digital file, [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022554216.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=7&z=-47.2741%2C0%2C3640.5482%2C2639 Contents]. Also available as a pdf download from the Digital Library of India [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284274 Vol-vth], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284274 Archive.org version].
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2917 ''The Agricultural Zoology of the Malay Archipelago : the animals injurious and beneficial to agriculture, horticulture and forestry in the Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines''] by Karel Willem Dammerman 1929. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*[https://archive.org/details/diseasesandpests029745mbp ''Diseases And Pests Of The Rubber Tree''] by Arnold Sharples 1936 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Malayan%20Agricultural%20Journal%29 ''Malayan Agricultural Journal''] Archive.org. A limited number of editions are also available on [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/simple-search?location=&query=Malayan&filtername=title&filtertype=contains&filterquery=malayan&rpp=10&sort_by=score&order=desc Krishikosh] Institutional Repository of Indian National Agricultural Research System, as pdf downloads. Also [http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/2047353 Malayan Agriculture 1924 Hand Book]
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Agricultural+bulletin+of+the+Straits+%29&sort=-publicdate ''Agricultural Bulletin of the Straits and Federated Malay States''], Multiple volumes, but at least from New Series Volume I 1902 to Volume X, 1911. For many editions, you need to look at the title page, as year is not otherwise catalogued. Archive.org.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/handle/123456789/2441 ''Planters and speculators : Chinese and European agricultural enterprise in Malaya, 1786-1921''] by James Charles Jackson 1968. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, digital repository of the National Library of Malaysia.
*The following book appears to have been published under three slightly different titles: ''Memoirs Of A British Agent''; ''Memoirs of a British agent : being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918''; and ''British Agent'', by R H Bruce Lockhart 1932. The initial chapters cover his time in Malaya as a young man c 1908-1910 where his uncles were rubber planters. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.80541 Archive.org version]; two transcribed formats: [http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BritAgent/BATC.htm#TC gwpda.org] and [http://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/Lockhart-MemoirsBritishAgent.pdf spyculture.com].
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._H._Bruce_Lockhart R. H. Bruce Lockhart] Wikipedia.
