Thanks to the efforts of NMV Librarians, we have an extensive list of works in the library on the subject of European relations with Siam, as follows:
- The Burney Papers. Records of the relations between Siam and foreign countries, 16 vol. (from 17th to 19th centuries).Bangkok, The Vajiranana National Library.1910-1915.
-Dirk Van der Cruysse,Siam and the West 1500 to 1700. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books,2002.
Louis XIV et le Siam. Paris. Editions Fayard. 1991 -Michel Jacq-Hergoualc’h, L’Europe et le Siam du XVI è au XVIIIème siècle. Apports culturels. Paris, Editions l’Harmattan, 1993.
- Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450- 1680.Volume One: The Lands below the Winds. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books, 1988.
Volume Two: Expansion and Crisis.Chiang Mai,Silworm books,1993 --Michael Smithies, A Siamese embassy lost in Africa 1686.The odyssey of Ok Khun Chamnan. Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books,1999.
-Records of the relations between Siam and Foreign Countries in the 17th Century.Copied from papers preserved at the India Office, Vol. IV 1686- 1687.Bangkok, Vajiranan National Library, 1920.
- Sven Trakulhun, Siam und Europa. Das Königreich Ayutthaya in westlichen Berichten 1500-1670.Hannover,Schriftenreihe der Deutch- Thailandischen Gesellschaft.Band 24,Wehrhahn Verlag,2006.
- 120 Jahre Deutsch- Thailandische Freundschaft. Bangkok, Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.1982.
- Andreas Stoffers, Im Lande des weissen Elefanten. Die Beziehungen zwischen Deutschland und Thailand von den Anfangen bis 1962. Bonn,Deutsche thailandische gesellschaft e.v.22,1995.
-Foreign Records of the Bangkok Period up to A.D. 1932.Bangkok, Published on the occasion of the Rattanakosin Bicentennial. Office of the Prime Minister, 1982.
-Manich Jumsai, History of Anglo-Thai Relations. Bangkok, Nai Vitaya Pub,1970 King Mongkut and Queen Victoria. The Model of a great Friendship.Bangkok, Chalermnit,1972.
King Mongkut and the British. Bangkok, Chalermnit, 1991.
-Thailand and the Netherlands. A Friendship of four Centuries and more. Bangkok, National Museum,2004.
- Brummelhuis, Hans ten,Merchant,Courtier and Diplomat.A History of the contacts between the Netherlands and Thailand. Presented by the royal Netherlands embassy in celebration of his majesty king bhumibol adullyadej’s .Gent, Uitgebvermaatschappij de tijdstoom,1987.
- Michael Smithies, The Diary of Kosapan, Thai Ambassador to France June-July 1686.Chiang Mai, Silkworm Books,2002.
- E.W Hutchinson, Adventurers in Siam in the Seventeenth Century. London, The Royal Asiatic Society, 1985.
-The writings of King Mongkut to Sir John Bowring (A.D. 1855- 1868),Bangkok, The historical commission of the prime minister’s secretariat.1994.
- Thailand and Portugal. 470 Years of friendship. Lisbon, Calouste Goulbenkian Foundation,1982.
- Eileen Hunter, Narisa Chakrabongse, Katya and the Prince of Siam. Bangkok,River Books,1995.
- Georges A. Sioris, Phaulkon.The Greek Counsellor at the court of Siam An Appraisal.Bangkok, The Siam Society,1998.
-Pierre Broussard, Gerald Walewijk, A Century of Thai-Belgian Friendship. One hundred years in Belgian Diplomatic presence in Bangkok 1904- 2004.Bangkok,Amarin Printing,2004. - Pierre Boussard, King Chulalongkorn’s Journeys to Belgium.Bangkok. Institute of Asian Studies,Chulalongkorn University
-Alain Forest ,Les missionnaires français au Tonkin et au Siam .Analyse comparée d’un relatif succès et d’un total échec. Livre I : Histoires du Siam. Livre II : Organiser une église, convertir les infidèles .Paris, Editions l’Harmattan,1998.
- Phra Narai, Roi de Siam et Louis XIV, Paris, Publication du Musée Guimet,1986.
-Chao Phya Abhai Raja.Gustave Rolin Jaequemyns, General adviser of H.M. King Chulalongkorn,Chiang Mai, Changpuek Press,2007. -John Crawfurd, Journal of an embassy to the courts of Siam and Cochin China. Singapore, Oxford University Press,1987.
-Michael Smithies, Luigi Bressan, Siam and the Vatican in the Seventeenth Century. Bangkok, River Books,2001.
- Michael Smithies, Descriptions of Old Siam, New York,Oxford University Press, 1995.
Foreigner‘s Accounts on Siam – Selected Books from the Library
- Bowring, Sir John, The Kingdom and People of Siam. 2 Volumes, Oxford University Press, Singapore, 1977.
- Carter Cecil E, The Kingdom of Siam 1904. Bangkok, The Siam Society, 1988
- Caron François and Joost Schouten, A true Description of the mighty Kingdoms of Japan and Siam. Bangkok, the Siam Society, 1988
- De la Loubere Simon, A new historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam. Bangkok, White lotus, 1986
- Mr. and Mrs. Emile Jottrand, In Siam. The diary of a legal adviser of King Chulalongkorn’s Government. Translation: Walter Tips, Bangkok, White Lotus Press, 1996.
- Prince Prisdang’s files on his diplomatic activities in Europe 1880 1886, by Manich Jumsai, Chalermnit Ed, Bangkok, 1977.
- Siam, 16th and early 17th century Accounts, collected by Manich Jumsai, Bangkok, Chalermnit Ed., 1968
- Pallegroix, Monsignor Jean- Baptiste, Description of the Thai Kingdom or Siam. Thailand under King Mongkut, translated by Tips Walther, Bangkok, White Lotus Press, 2000.
- Tachard Guy, A relation of the Voyage to Siam performed by six Jesuits sent by the French king to the Indies and China in the year 1685,Itineraria Asiatica,White Orchid Press,Bangkok,1981
- The Siamese memoirs of Count Claude de Forbin (1685-1688). Edited by Michael Smithies, Silkworm Books, Chiang mai, 1997 - Turpin, F.H., A history of the Kingdom of Siam and of the revolutions that caused the Overthrow of the Empire up to 1770, translated by B.O. Cartwright, White lotus press,1997
- Bötefür Markus, Auf Elephantenrücken durch Siam. Europaïsche reiseberichte über das alte Thailand, Ostasien Verlag, Gossemberg, 2009.
- Abbe François Timoléon de Choisy, Le voyage de Siam, 'Journal du Voyage de Siam: Fait en 1685 et 1686', présentation de Matthias Huber, Éditions Olizane, 2006,). - Pallegroix J.B, Description du Royaume de Siam, Ed. par Massé B., DK Book House, 1976