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** ''The Great Within'' 1941. The interactions of China and Europe from the seventeenth century. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284308 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
** ''British Merchant Adventurers'' 1942. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127532 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
** ''Marco Polo'' 1950. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241770 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
→Historical books online
*Autobiographies
** ''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.524247 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Probably the author’s most famous book on Burma, one of several volumes of autobiography, it covers the years 1928-1931, particularly his role as District Magistrate of Rangoon, and the riots of 1930.
*:[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9789748940403 1996 reprint edition with "A New Introduction" by Louise Collis [daughter<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org Lending Library.
*Histories
** ''The Great Within'' 1941. The interactions of China and Europe from the seventeenth century. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284308 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
** ''British Merchant Adventurers'' 1942. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.127532 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
** ''Foreign Mud - Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s and the Anglo-Chinese War That Followed'' 1946. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209009 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
**[https://archive.org/details/TheLandOfTheGreatImage ''The Land Of The Great Image; Being Experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan''] by Maurice Collis 1946 Archive.org. (A History). Sebastien Manrique was a Portuguese Augustinian missionary who spent much of the period 1629-37 in Arakan, and also visited the Philippines, China and India. His account of his travels was originally written in Spanish and published in 1649 and 1653.
* Biographies
**Sample pages only [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jSKUCwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 ''Siamese White''] by Maurice Collis, first published 1936, with title ''Siamese White. An account of events in Siam in 1687 with special reference to Samuel White''. Google Books. Samuel White was born in England about 1650. In 1875 White came on to the books of the East India Company as a pilot on the establishment of Fort. St George, Madras.
** ''Marco Polo'' 1950. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241770 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
**[https://archive.org/details/raffles00coll/page/n5 ''Raffles''] by Maurice Collis 1966 Archive.org Lending Library.
*Other
** ''The Burmese Scene'' 1943. Full title: ''The Burmese Scene : Political, Historical, Pictorial''. A review of the history, government and economic life of Burma. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207858 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*Fiction
**[https://archive.org/details/SheWasAQueen ''She Was A Queen''] by Maurice Collis 1937 Archive.org. (Fiction) Biography of a Burmese Queen.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458625 ''Sanda Mala''] by Maurice Collis first published c 1939 in English Archive.org.
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