Books on municipal and provincial seals

Seal of Surat Thani province

On the Thai Wikipedia, the list of provincial seals include some former provinces - Phra Nakhon and Thonburi which were merged into Bangkok metropolis in 1972 and the four provinces in the annexed areas of modern-day Laos and Cambodia in World War II. As the source for these images, a publication by the Fine Arts Department (กรมศิลปากรจัดพิมพ์) published in 1999 was given. I guess this book, titled ตราประจำจังหวัด (Tra pracham changwat, provincial seals), is probably completely impossible to get in the bookstores anymore, and I haven't had the time to check any of the libraries in Bangkok during my short vacation times there. And sadly Google Books has no scans of this book either. At 350 pages, i.e. about 4 pages per province, it would be a great resource, so if anyone could catch me a copy or even just scans of the pages it would absolutely great.

While looking for more about this book, I discovered that there were earlier similar publications. In 1968, the Department of Provincial Administration (กรมการปกครอง) published a book titled ประวัติและความหายของดวงตราประจำจังหวัด (Prawat lae khwammai khong duang tra pracham changwat, Provincial seals, their history and meaning), though at 71 pages it probably much less detailed than the 1999 book. But even more interesting is another one titled ประวัติและความหายของดวงตราประจำเทศบาลทั่วราชอาณาจักร) (Prawat lae khwammai khong dūang tra pracham thetsaban thua ratchaanachak, Municipal seals, their history and meaning). As there were only about 120 municipalities back then, these fit well into the 120 pages of this book. What is really a pits is that both books have been scanned by the University of Michigan, but due to the copyright law one cannot access the scans on the net - even though I would think the books are not copyrighted as being governmental publications.

Seal of TAO Bang Bai Mai,
Surat Thani

Today, a book on the municipal seals would become a multi-volume one, as there are around 2000 municipalities by now. Additionally, the 5700 TAO also each have seals, altogether 7776 local government entities to be covered. And there were a few TAO which were abolished again already, don't know if these ever had seals as well. Thus if an equal coverage as in the 1999 book is attempted, one could easily fill a book with just the seals in a single province. Though I prefer the dead-tree books, this much more calls for an eBook, or even better to become a part of the Wikipedia. If only I could be more sure about the copyright status of these seals - even the provincial seals had once been deleted on Wikipedia as being of unsure status - I would have started long time with those few seals I could draw in vector format already.