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• Reflections Upon Laughter, and Remarks Upon the Fable of the Bees (Glasgow: Printed by R. Urie for D. Baxter, 1971), by Francis Hutcheson
  • microfilm scan (omitting some back matter): multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1971 facsmile reproduction: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• De somniis, ac synesi per somnia. De risv, ac ridicvlis. De synavgia Platonica. (Apud Victorium Baldinum, 1591), by Celso Mancini (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)
• Laughing and Crying: A Study of the Limits of Human Behavior (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Helmuth Plessner, trans. by James Spencer Churchill and Marjorie Grene (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
• Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter (1971), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
• Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)
• Le sourire; psychologie et physiologie. (Alcan, 1906), by Georges Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature of laughter (Harcourt, Brace, 1924), by J. C. Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Da ironia, do riso e da caricatura (com um ex-libris de Antonio Carneiro) ensaio esthetico. ([Porto], 1915), by Aarão de Lacerda (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rire et l'origine des idées. (G. Vatar, 1923), by J. de Talhouet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The paradox of the ludicrous (Stanford university press;, 1930), by Samuel Swayze Seward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité des causes physiques et morales du rire, relativement à l'art de l'exciter, ... . (Chez M.-M. Rey, 1768), by Louis Poinsinet de Sivry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays: on poetry and music, as they affect the mind; on laughter, and ludicrous composition; on the usefulness of classical learning. (Printed for E. and C. Dilly; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1779), by James Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on poetry and music, as they affect the mind, on laughter, and ludicrous composition, on the utility of classical learning (Printed for E. and C. Dilly, in London; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1778), by James Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism; on poetry and music, as they affect the mind; on laughter, and ludicrous composition; on the utility of classical learning (Printed for the author, 1777), by James Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laughter : an essay on the meaning of the comic (Macmillan and co. limited, 1913), by Henri Bergson, Fred Rothwell, and Cloudesley Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The nature of comedy. (R. G. Badger, 1930), by Willard Mallalieu Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laughter : an essay on the meaning of the comic (The Macmillan company, 1911), by Henri Bergson, Fred Rothwell, and Cloudesley Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rire et les exhilarants : étude anatomique psychophysiologique et patholocique [sic] (Baillière, 1900), by Jules Marie Raulin and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychologie du rire (F. Alcan, 1902), by Ludovic Dugas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rire et les rieurs (Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Franc̜aise, 1929), by Lucien Fabré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Physiologie und Psychologie des Lachens und des Komischen. (Ferd. Dümmlers Verlags, 1873), by Ewald Hecker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Lachen (Diederichs, 1914), by Henri Bergson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rire et pleurer spasmodiques. (E. Witski, 1901), by Maurice Toulzac (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rire; essai litteraire, moral et psychologique. (G. Baillière, 1883), by Louis Philbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'esprit; Du comique; Du rire. (Impr. J. Claye, 1876), by Louis Philbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des causes du rire (A. Durand, 1862), by Léon A. Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laughing (Jarrolds, 1928), by Martin Donisthorpe Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The laughing Chinaman; good-sense and non-sense about the sense of humor and the sense of honor. Vol. III, part II of he Harvest of happiness. (A. F. Fuller, 1934), by Arthur Franklin Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The psychology of laughter (Appleton and Company, 1913), by Boris Sidis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il comico, l'umore e la fantasia; o, Teoria del riso come introduzione all'estetica. (Fratelli Bocca, 1926), by Alberto Piccoli-Genovese (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laughter; an essay on the meaning of the comic (The Macmillan company, 1928), by Henri Bergson, Fred Rothwell, and Cloudesley Shovell Henry Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism : on poetry and music, as they affect the mind : on laughter, and ludicrous composition and, on the utility of classical learning (Printed for C. Jenkin, 1778), by James Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress : its law and cause : with other disquisitions, viz. : The physiology of laughter : Origin and function of music : The social organism : Use and beauty : The use of anthropomorphism (J. Fitzgerald & co., 1881), by Herbert Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of laughter and smiling (J. Burns, 1875), by George Vasey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays. On the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism. On poetry and music, as they affect the mind. On laughter, and ludicrous composition. On the utility of classical learning. (Printed for W. Creech, 1776), by James Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays: on poetry and music, as they affect the mind; on laughter, and ludicrous composition; on the usefulness of classical learning. (Printed for E. and C. Dilly; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1779), by James Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays : on the nature and immutability of truth, in opposition to sophistry and scepticism; on poetry and music, as they affect the mind; on laughter, and ludicrous composition; on the utility of classical learning (Printed for W. Creech, [etc.], 1776), by James Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rire (Paul Ollendorff, 1887), by Ernest Coquelin and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Versuch einer theorie des lächerlichen ... (Adler's erben, 1869), by Joseph Rindskopf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychologische und physiologische Untersuchung über das Lachen Aus dem französischen Übersetzt. Nebst einer Abhandlung, in welcher Kants Erklärung des Lachens erläutert und herrn D. Platners Theorie des Lächerlichen geprüft Wird. (Bey H. G. Albrecht, 1794), by Louis Poinsinet de Sivry and W. M. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité du ris ; suivi d'un Dialogue sur la cacographie française (Slatkine Reprints, 1973), by Laurent Joubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Physiologie und Psychologie des Lachens und des Komischen, ein Beitrag zur experimentellen Psychologie für Naturforscher Philosophen und gebildete Laien. (Dümmler, 1873), by Ewald Hecker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laughter : an essay on the meaning of the comic (The Macmillan company, 1921), by Henri Bergson, Fred Rothwell, and Cloudesley Brereton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The psychology of laughter. (D. Appleton and Company, 1919), by Boris Sidis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die physiologie und psychologie des lachens und des komischen. Ein beitrag zur experimentellen psychologie für naturforscher, philosophen und gebildete laien. (Harrwitz & Gossmann, 1873), by Ewald Hecker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études sur le comique. (Didier, 1875), by V. Courdaveaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Monde du comique et du rire. (Calmann-Lévy, 1886), by Alfred Michiels (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on laughter; its forms, its causes, its development and its value (Longmans, Green, and co., 1902), by James Sully (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progress : its law and cause : with other disquisitions, viz. : The physiology of laughter : Origin and function of music : The social organism : Use and beauty : The use of anthropomorphism (J. Fitzgerald & co., 1882), by Herbert Spencer (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la risa : (inédito) (Talleres del Instituto "Luis Martínez", 1916), by Juan Montalvo and Juan Benigno Vela (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laughing and crying of preschool children; a study of the social and emotional behavior of young children as indicated by laughing and crying (Teachers college, Columbia university, 1934), by Catherine Williams Brackett (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on laughter; its forms, its causes, its development and its value. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1907), by James Sully (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The mental and moral philosophy of laughter: a vista of the ludicrous side of life. (Partridge & Oakey, 1852), by Edwin Paxton Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rire : essai sur la signification du comique (F. Alcan, 1922), by Henri Bergson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The springs of laughter (Methuen & Co., 1928), by C. W. Kimmins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le rire : essai sur la signification du comique (Alcan, 1925), by Henri Bergson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Lachen, das Lächerliche und der Witz. Erläutert durch die Menge lächerlicher Geschichten, witziger Antworten und Anekdoten. Nebst Fragment aus des Verfassers Leben. (Scheible, Rieger & Sattler, 1842), by Karl Julius Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Warai no tetsugaku (Tōkyōdō, 1924), by Henri Bergson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laughter (Shang wu yin shu guan fa xing, 1927), by Henri Bergson, Wentian Zhang, Fred Rothwell, and Cloudesley Brereton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Essay on Laughter: Its Forms, Its Causes, Its Development and Its Value, by James Sully (Gutenberg ebook)
• Die Physiologie und Psychologie des Lachens und des Komischen.: Ein Beitrag zur experimentellen Psychologie für Naturforscher, Philosophen und gebildete Laien. (in German), by Ewald Hecker (Gutenberg ebook)
• The government & improvement of mirth according to the laws of Christianity. In three sermons. I. Of civil & natural II. Of carnal & vicious mirth III. Of spiritual & holy joy. Essay'd from James V. 13. : [Two lines from James] : More especially designed for the use, and recommended to the serious perusal of young people, and in particular the young gentlemen of Boston. / By Benj. Colman. (Boston in New-England: : Printed by B Green, for Samuel Phillips at the brick shop., 1707), by Benjamin Colman (HTML at Evans TCP)

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