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• Orang-Outang, Sive Homo Sylvestris: or, The Anatomy of a Pygmie Compared With That of a Monkey, an Ape, and a Man; To Which is Added, A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies, the Cynocephali, the Satyrs, and Sphinges of the Ancients, Wherein it Will Appear That They Are All Either Apes or Monkeys, and Not Men, as Formerly Pretended (London: Printed for T. Bennet and D. Brown, 1699), by Edward Tyson
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• A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients. (D. Nutt, 1894), by Edward Tyson and Bertram C. A. Windle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gerania: a new discovery of a little sort of people anciently discoursed of, called pygmies. With a lively description of their stature, habit, manners, buildings, knowledge, and government, being very delightful and profitable (Printed by W.G. for O. Blagrave, 1750), by Joshua Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new discovery of a little sort of people, anciently discoursed of, called pygmies: with a particular description of their religion and government, language, habit, stature, food, etc. ... (Printed for R. Griffiths, 1750), by Joshua Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• In dwarf land and cannibal country : a record of travel and discovery in Central Africa (T. Fisher Unwin, 1907), by Albert B. Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pygmées; négrilles d'Afrique et négritos d'Asie. (Oeuvre d'Auteuil, 1929), by A. Le Roy (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the trail of the pigmies; an anthropological exploration under the cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities. (London : T.F. Unwin, 1922., 1922), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of the pigmies (Thomas Y. Crowell & Company ;, 1898), by Guy Burrows and Henry M. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pygmées : négrilles d'Afrique et négritos d'Asie (Beauchesne, 1928), by Alexandre LeRoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pygmies. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pygmies (Macmillian and co., 1895), by A. de Quatrefages and Frederick Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Stellung der Pygmäenvölker in der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen (Strecker & Schröder, 1910), by Wilhelm Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pygmies (D. Appleton & Co., 1895), by A. de Quatrefages and Frederick Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
• How a race of pygmies was found in North Africa and Spain with comments of Professors Virchow, Sayce and Starr : and papers on other subjects (s.n.], 1897), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survivals of dwarf races in the new world (s.n., 1894), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dwarf survivals, and traditions as to pygmy races (s.n., 1895), by R. G. Haliburton and American Association for the Advancement of Science (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survivals of prehistoric races in Mount Atlas and Pyrenees memoir destined to the 10th session of the International Congress of Orientalists (National Print. Office, 1892), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pygmäen in Europa und Amerika ([Bibliographischen Institut], 1902), by Julius Kollmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country of the dwarfs (Harper & brothers, 1899), by Paul B. Du Chaillu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Survivals of prehistoric races in Mount Atlas and Pyrenees memoir destined to the 10th session of the International Congress of Orientalists (National Print. Office, 1892), by R. G. Haliburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Small living things (Chicago Natural History Museum, 1961), by Raymond Foundation and Chicago Natural History Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Im lande der Zwerge; abenteuer und kämpfe unter der Zwergvölkern des innersten Afrikas. (Union Deutscher Verlagsgesellschaft, in the 1920s), by Friedrich Wilhelm Mader (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pygmies. (Macmillan, 1894), by Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau and Frederick Starr (page images at HathiTrust)
• De pygmaeis africanis. (Ex typis Berger-Levrault et sodalium, 1903), by Joseph Combet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of pygmies (T.Y. Crowell and Company, 1898), by Guy Burrows (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients, by Edward Tyson, ed. by Bertram Coghill Alan Windle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Gerania a new discovery of a little sort of people, anciently discoursed of, called pygmies : with a lively description of their stature, habit, manners, buildings, knowledge, and government being very delightful and profitable / by Joshua Barnes. (London : Printed by W.G. for Obadiah Blagrave, 1675), by Joshua Barnes (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the Lilliputs of the Andes. (Lorillard Spencer, 1894), by Emory Calvin White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pygmées. (Baillière, 1887), by A. de Quatrefages (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pygmäen in Europa und Amerika ([Bibliographischen Institut], 1902), by Julius Kollmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• The pygmy's arrow : a tale of mystery and adventure in the Belgian Congo (Junior Literary Guild Corp. and Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1939), by Thames Williamson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Les pygmées. (Baillière, 1887), by A. de Quatrefages (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pygmäen in Europa und Amerika ([Bibliographischen Institut], 1902), by Julius Kollmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Big game and pygimies; experiences of a naturalist in Central African forests in quest of the okapi (Macmillan and co., limited, 1924), by Cuthbert Christy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life Among the Pygmies of the Ituri Forest, Congo Free State (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1905), by James Jonathan Harrison (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Borders of Pigmy Land (second edition; London: Marshall brothers, ca. 1904), by Ruth B. Fisher (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Borders of Pigmy Land (third edition; London: Marshall brothers, ca. 1905), by Ruth B. Fisher
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• On the Borders of Pigmy Land (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., 1905), by Ruth B. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the Trail of the Pigmies: An Anthropological Exploration Under the Cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1922), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The country of the dwarfs. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Paul B. Du Chaillu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jungle portraits (Macmillan, 1930), by Delia J. Akeley (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the trail of the pigmies; an anthropological exploration under the cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities. (Negro Universities Press, 1969), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pygmées; négrilles d'Afrique et négritos d'Asie. (Oeuvre d'Auteuil, 1929), by A. Le Roy (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the trail of the pigmies; an anthropological exploration under the cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities. (London : T.F. Unwin, 1922., 1922), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of the pigmies (Thomas Y. Crowell & Company ;, 1898), by Guy Burrows and Henry M. Stanley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures in the great forest of equatorial Africa and the country of the dwarfs (Harper & brothers, 1890), by Paul B. Du Chaillu (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the trail of the pigmies; an anthropological exploration under the cooperation of the American Museum of Natural History and American Universities. (McCann, 1921), by Leonard John Vanden Bergh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life among the pygmies of the Ituri forest, Congo Free State. (Hutchinson & Co., 1905), by James Jonathan Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Yankee in pigmy land; being the narrative of a journey across Africa from Mombasa through the great pigmy forest to Banana (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1905), by William Edgar Geil (page images at HathiTrust)
• The country of the dwarfs. (Harper & brothers, 1871), by Paul B. Du Chaillu and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai de coordination des matériaux récemment recueillis sur l'ethnologie des négrilles ou pygmées de l'Afrique équatoriale. (Hennuyer, 1879), by E. T. Hamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the borders of pigmy land (Marshall Brothers, 1904), by Ruth B. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the borders of pigmy land (Marshall Brothers, 1912), by Ruth B. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the borders of pigmy land, by Ruth B. Fisher (Gutenberg ebook)

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