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===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/englishintercour00ande/page/n27/mode/2up ''English intercourse with Siam in the seventeenth century''] by John Anderson 1890, with a [https://archive.org/details/englishintercour00ande/page/n39/mode/1up Map] Archive.org. The province of Tenasserim was then part of the kingdom of Siam.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.505022/page/n5/mode/2up ''Peter Floris His Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe 1611-1615''] edited by W H Moreland. Printed for the Hakluyt Society Second Series No LXXIV 1934. Originally translated from a manuscript in Dutch. Includes a chapter on Siam.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.283422/2015.283422.The-Journal#page/n9 "Early Trade Relations between Denmark and Siam"] by His Highness Prince Dhani Nivat and Major Erik Seidenfaden page 1 ''The Journal Of The Siam Society'' 1939 Vol XXXI Archive.org.
*''The history of Japan, giving an account of the ancient and present state and government of that empire : of its temples, palaces, castles and other buildings, of its metals, minerals, trees, plants, animals, birds and fishes, of the chronology and succession of the emperors, ecclesiastical and secular, of the original descent, religions, customs, and manufactures of the natives, and of their trade and commerce with the Dutch and Chinese : together with a description of the kingdom of Siam'' by Engelbert Kaempfer [1651-1716], translated by John Gaspar Scheuchzer. Published 1727. [https://archive.org/details/historyofjapangi01kaem/page/n7/mode/2up Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/historyofjapangi02kaem/page/n5/mode/2up Volume II] Archive.org
*''List of Protestant missionaries in China, Japan and Siam'' for 1874, 1881, 1884, see [[China]].
*[https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11948/ ''Siam''] by Josiah Crosby, the British consul-general in Bangkok. HMSO 1920. Number 74 in a series of more than 160 studies prepared by the British Foreign Office as background information for British delegates at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. World Digital Library, Library of Congress.
*[https://archive.org/details/wherestrangetrai00powe/page/n9/mode/2up ''Where the strange trails go down; Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits settlements, Malay states, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China''] by E Alexander Powell 1921 Archive.org
*[http://nlirepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/1478 ''From Golden Gate to Golden Sun: a record of travel, sport and observation in Siam and Malaya''] by Hermann Norden 1923. Link to a pdf, DSpace, National Library of India.
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1639 ''Guide to Bangkok: with Notes on Siam''] by Major Erik Seidenfaden 1927. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours".
*[https://archive.org/details/SiamGuidebook1930 ''Siam Guidebook: Bangkok, Bang Pa-In, Ayudhya and Lopburi''] [1930] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsiamtosuez010141mbp ''From Siam to Suez''] by James Saxon Childers 1932 Archive.org. The author travelled to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Burma and India.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 ''Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatera, Java and Bali''] by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only. Available, for those with University access [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255884 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[https://archive.org/details/pepperriceelepha00rick ''Pepper, Rice, and Elephants : a Southeast Asian journey from Celebes to Siam''] by Ruth Masters Rickover 1975 Archive.org Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/captiveongermanr00tray ''A Captive on a German Raider''] by F G Trayes 1918 Archive.org. The author, captured in September 1917, had been in government service for twenty years in Siam, and there is a brief mention of the decorations he had been awarded by the King of Siam page 104-105.
