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*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/asia/4799219unorthu1945.html Bangkok, Town Plan (North)], [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/asia/4799219usouthu1945.html Bangkok, Town Plan (South)] 1945. War Office maps, British Library Online Gallery.
===Historical books online===
*''The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto ... during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchin-China, Calaminham, '''Siam''', Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies''. Done into English by H C [Henry Cogan] [https://archive.org/details/b30320586/page/n9/mode/2up 1663 edition], [https://archive.org/details/voyagesadventure00pint/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd edition, corrected and amended 1663] First Portuguese edition 1614.
:''The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, the Portuguese (done into English by Henry Cogan) with an Introduction by Arminius Vambery''. A volume in ''The Adventure Series''. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924077183410/page/n11/mode/2up Abridged and Illustrated edition 1891], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924011271826/page/n7/mode/2up Popular edition 1897] All Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/travelsofmendesp0000pint/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Travels of Mendes Pinto''] Edited and translated by Rebecca D Catz 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernão_Mendes_Pinto Fernão Mendes Pinto] Wikipedia. He made three voyage 1537-1558.
*[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/details/journalaninemon00tomlgoog ''Journal of a Nine Months' Residence in Siam''] by Jacob Tomlin, Missionary 1831 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/narrativeofresid00neal ''Narrative of a residence at the capital of the Kingdom of Siam : with a description of the manners, customs, and laws of the modern Siamese''] by Fred. Arthur Neale 1852 Archive.org
*''The Bangkok Calendar'' for
**[https://archive.org/details/bangkokcalendar00assogoog/page/n3/mode/2up 1862] includes [https://archive.org/details/bangkokcalendar00assogoog/page/n115/mode/2up "European and American Residents in Bangkok"] page 112. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/b24862010 1865] includes [https://archive.org/details/b24862010/page/138/mode/2up American and European Residents at Bangkok, and other places in Siam] page 138. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/landofwhiteeleph00vinc ''The Land of the White Elephant: Sights and Scenes in South-Eastern Asia : A personal narrative of travel and adventure in Farther India, embracing the countries of Burma, Siam, Cambodia, and Cochin-China. (1871-2)''] by Frank Vincent Jun. 1874. With numerous illustrations. Archive.org. Also available at [http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:006/ Cornell University Library - Southeast Asia Visions] in an 1873 edition.
*[https://archive.org/details/straitsofmalacca00thom_0 ''Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China; or Ten Years Travels, Adventures and Residence Abroad''] by J Thomson 1875 Archive.org. Includes a chapter on Siam.
*[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/stream/BangkokSiam1932/Bangkok_Siam_1930-150dpi_OCR_pdfA-2b#page/n3/mode/1up Third Edition 1932] With illustrations. Archive.org. Note, to view, select single page option, as the book has been scanned two original pages to one digital page.
*[https://digital.library.tu.ac.th/tu_dc/frontend/Info/item/dc:47755 ''Bangkok its life and sport, with some account of Siam's coastal and island game areas''] by C H Forty 1929. Thammasat University Library. Registration required.
*[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.
