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• The new-yeeres gift presented at court, from the lady Parvula to the Lord Minimus, (commonly called Little Jefferie) Her Majesties servant, with a letter as it was penned in short-hand: wherein is proved little things are better then great. Written by Microphilus. (Printed at London : By N. and I. Okes, dwelling in Little St. Bartholmewes, 1636), by Master Slater, Thomas Heywood, and Master Slater (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• The physical growth of children from birth to maturity (The University, 1921), by Bird T. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Accident and near accident causation: the contribution of automobile design characteristics. Final report. (1977), by William J. Burger, R. L. Smith, J. E. Queen, and G. B. Slack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tall men have their problems too ([Cambridge, Mass.], 1943), by Francis Behn Riggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short stature and height increase (Harvest house, 1939), by C. J. Gerling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why be short. (Little manual publishing company, 1943), by Paul O'Neil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heights and weights of children and youth in the United States. (Institute of Home Economics, U.S. Agricultural Research Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1957), by Milicent Louise Hathaway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mean body weight, height, and body mass index : United States 1960-2002 (Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2004), by Cynthia L. Ogden and National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heights and weights of school children : a study of the heights of 14,335 native white school children in Maryland, Virginia, and North and South Carolina (G.P.O., 1922), by Taliaferro Clark, Selwyn De Witt Collins, Edgar Sydenstricker, and United States Public Health Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Body dimensions and proportions, white and Negro children, 6-11 years, United States (National Center for Health Statistics; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Washington, 1974), by Robert M. Malina, Stanley Lemeshow, and Peter V. V. Hamill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heights and weights of school children : a study of the heights of 14,335 native white school children in Maryland, Virginia, and North and South Carolina (G.P.O., 1922), by Taliaferro Clark, Selwyn De Witt Collins, Edgar Sydenstricker, and United States Public Health Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pat and the Spider: The Biter Bit (Toronto: Musson Book Co., ca. 1905), by Helen Bannerman
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• The little cowboy (William R. Scott, 1948), by Margaret Wise Brown and Esphyr Slobodkina (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heights and weights of adults in the United States (Human Nutrition Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1960), by Milicent Louise Hathaway and Elsie F. Foard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Criteria for determining disability in infants and children : short stature (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2003), by Patricia Wheeler, United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and New England Medical Center Hospital. Evidence-based Practice Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Gene ... The universal calf (Fred Hahne Printing Co., 1956), by L. N. Hazel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A study of dwarfism in beef cattle (Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1962), by Thomas J. Marlowe, James R. Rooney, and W. F. Mestanaza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dwarfism in beef cattle and the influence of dwarfism genes on physiological response to hormone-induced stress (University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1961), by Samuel E. Curl, James E. Comfort, and John Foster Lasley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some skeletal changes associated with dwarfism in cattle (Agricultural Experiment Station, North Dakota Agricultural College, 1956), by M. L. Buchanan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the life, personal appearance, character, and manners, of Charles S. Stratton : the man in miniature, known as General Tom Thumb ... with some account of remarkable dwarfs, giants, and other human phenomena, of ancient and modern times. Also, General Tom Thumb's songs. (Van Norden & Amerman, printers, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Human growth hormone; a publication for physicians (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, 1965), by National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sur le nain Auguste Tuaillon et sur le nanisme simple. (Soc. d'Anthrop., 1896), by L. Manouvrier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little People: A Father Reflects on His Daughter's Dwarfism and What it Means to be Different (Boston: Northeastern University, c2007), by Dan Kennedy (multiple formats at Northeastern)
• Little People (2010 edition), by Dan Kennedy (HTML with commentary at littlepeoplethebook.com)

• Chondrodystrophie en hare verhouding tot andere aangeboren beenziekten ... (P. den Boer, 1909), by Johan Godefriedus Walaardt Sacré (page images at HathiTrust)

• The control of experimental cretinism ... ([Chicago], 1916), by Harvey Raymond Basinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morphological studies in experimental cretinism ... (Chicago, 1913), by Arthur L. Tatum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur le crétinisme, par E. Koeberlé ... (Impr. de veuve Berger-Levrault, 1862), by E. Koeberlé (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die kretinische Entartung nach anthropologischer Methode, bearbeitet (J. Springer, 1923), by Ernst Finkbeiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Séances de l'Acad. de médecine (J.B. Ballière, 1851), by Académie de médecine (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur le goitre et le crétinisme. (J.-B. Baillière, 1851), by G. M. A. Ferrus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myxœdema, cretinism and the goitres : with some of their relations (Wright, 1894), by Edward Thomas Blake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of cretinism : and the institution for its cure, on the Abendberg, near Interlachen, in Switzerland (John W. Parker, 1843), by William L. Twining (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myxödem und Kretinismus. (Deuticke, 1912), by Julius Wagner-Jauregg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Klinische und anatomische Untersuchungen über den Cretinismus. (Berlin, 1906), by Wilhelm Scholz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zur Ätiologie und Pathologie des endemischen Kretinismus (F. Deuticke, 1910), by Friedrich Schlagenhaufer and Julius Wagner-Jauregg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enquête sur le goître et le crétinisme rapport (Librairie J. B. Baillière & fils, 1873), by Jules Gabriel François Baillarger and Parnel de Saint-Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beitrag zur kenntnis der entwickelung des skelettes von kretinen und kretinoiden ... (L. Gräfe & Sillem, 1899), by Robert von Wyss (page images at HathiTrust)
• A case of sporadic cretinism (s.n., 1899), by G. Gordon Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myxödem und kretinismus. (F. Deuticke, 1912), by Julius Wagner von Jauregg and Wilhelm Weygandt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cretins and cretinism. (Maclachlan & Stewart, 1854), by George Stodart Blackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kinder auf dem Abendberg: Eine Weihnachtsgabe (in German), by Ida Hahn-Hahn (Gutenberg ebook)

• Osservazioni intorno al mal asserito cretinismo delle vallate bergamasche contro osservazioni di fatto : dissertazione inaugurale (Tipografia dei Fratelli Fusi, 1859), by Giovanni Tacchini, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hereditary fragility of bone (fragilitas osseus, osteopsathyrosis) (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., 1915), by Henry Shoemaker Conrad and Charles Benedict Davenport (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anthropometria accessit doctrina naevorum (Typis Matthaei Cadorini, 1654), by Johann Sigismund Elsholtz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Di Alberto Durero pittore, e geometra chiarissimo (Presso Domenico Nicolini, 1591), by Albrecht Dürer, Domenico Nicolini, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plato in twelve volumes (Harvard University Press ;, 1914), by Plato, Paul Shorey, Robert Gregg Bury, W. R. M. Lamb, and Harold North Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations on the English language (Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1951), by Noah Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kant's Schriften (Berlin : Georg Reimer, 1902-<2020>, 1902), by Immanuel Kant, Eduard Gerresheim, Katharina Holger, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, and Königlich Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages of a Frenchman exiled for his religion (Press of the Pioneers, 1934), by of Dauphiné Durand, Bruce Rogers, Gilbert Chinard, Nicholas Hayward, and Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionarii Calepini, octolinguis, et nouissime recogniti, plurimisque dictionibus et variis significationibus aucti, ac diligentissime emendati : altera pars. (sumptibus Caldorianae Societatis, 1620), by Ambrogio Calepino, Jean Passerat, Pedro González de Mendoza, and Societé Caldoriene (Colonia) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Casp. Bartholini D. ... Syntagma medicum & chirurgicum De cauteriis praesertim potestate agentibus seu ruptoriis : olim in Academia Patavina nationi Germanicae praelectum, nunc multorum desideriis sasfaciendi ergo revisum, auctum, arcanisque cauterijs usu probatissimis locupletatum & publici juris factum : Accessit ejusdem autoris De aere pestilenti corrigendo consilium medicum (impensis Salomonis Sartorii, 1624), by Caspar Bartholin, Real Colegio de Cirugía de San Carlos (Madrid), and Salomon Sartor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laocoon (G. Routledge & sons, limited;, 1905), by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Robert Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lumbrico terrestri. (Joh. Chrisoph. Stösselii, 1703), by Christian Franz Paullini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cours de fièvres. (L'imprimerie de Jean Francois Picot, 1791), by J.-C.-M.-G. de Grimaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manifiesto canonico,christiano y politico por... D.Fra[n]cisco Añoa y Busto... en la disputa que con ocasion de la... exequias de... Doña Maria Ana de Neoburg ha ocurrido don el... Conde de Maceda... (s.n., 1740), by Francisco Ignacio Añoa y Busto and Reina consorte de Carlos II Mariana de Neoburgo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apology for the Bible : in a series of letters addressed to Thomas Paine, author of The age of reason (Published by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855), by Richard Watson, Charles Leslie, and Thomas Paine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sancti Aureli Augustini opera. (Apud Geroldi Filium, 1887), by Saint Augustine of Hippo (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1776), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qur'ān leaf] (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-awwal. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sādis ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-thānī wa-al-ʻishrūn]. (1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar min al-rabʻah al-sharīfah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-khāmis wa-al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-rābiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ ʻashar (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ (Columbia University Libraries, 1674), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-sābiʻ wa-al-ʻishrūn (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-thāmin (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1818), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1680), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dalāʼil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāh ʻalá al-nabī al-mukhtār ... (Columbia University Libraries, 1650), by Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān Jazūlī, David Eugene Smith, Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Saʻīd Būṣīrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān (Columbia University Libraries, 1741), by David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad Muḥsin Iṣfahānī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān] (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Juzʼ al-khāmis ʻashar]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ḥādī ʻashar. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith, al-Sayyid Muṣṭafá Bakrī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-ʻishrūn. (Columbia University Libraries, 1400), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Taʻlīq al-durrah al-Shanawānīyah ʻalá Sharḥ al-Ajurrūmīyah fī ʻilm al-ʻArabīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1637), by Abū Bakr ibn Ismāʻīl Shanawānī, David Eugene Smith, Khālid ibn ʻAbd Allāh Azharī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ājurrūm, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Risālah fī al-uṣūl al-ʻasharah min al-taṣawwuf. Risālat al-Taḥdhīr. (Columbia University Libraries, 1709), by George A. Plimpton, ʻAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Malik Muttaqī, 1145 or 1146-1221 Nazhmiddin Kubro, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1799), by ʻAlī ibn Ḥamzah, ʻAlī Shukrī, Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library), and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) and American Type Founders Company. Typographic Library and Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān leaves]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1300), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dīvān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tuḥfatu'l-ʻirfān (Columbia University Libraries, 1720), by Muḥammed Muṣīb Narḫīzāde, David Eugene Smith, Şahidî İbrahim Dede, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Qurʼān folio]. (Columbia University Libraries, 0800), by David Eugene Smith and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb sharḥ al-Jurrūmīyah. (Columbia University Libraries, 1580), by Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad Jibrīl, David Eugene Smith, Muḥammad ʻAwwād ibn Ḥusayn Afandī, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1568), by approximately 1253-1325 Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī, David Eugene Smith, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vasiyet (Columbia University Libraries, 1726), by approximately 1522-1573 Birgivî Mehmet Efendi, Emîr Süleyman, active 1726 Kâtip Boşnāḳ Ibrāhīm ibn Aḥmet, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [al-Qurʼān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1200), by Harry G. Friedman and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Qurʼān. (Columbia University Libraries, 1779), by David Eugene Smith, active 1779 Ismāʻīl ibn Ṣāliḥ, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Subḥat al-abrār]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Jami, Alan H. Kempner, Margaret Loeb Kempner, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Leaf from Khusraw va Shīrīn]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1500), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Gulistān]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1700), by Sa'di, A. V. Williams Jackson, A. Beijan, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sahm al-muṣīb fī al-radd ʻalá al-Khaṭīb (Columbia University Libraries, 1226), by Sultan of Damascus Muʻaẓẓam, active 1226 ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Khamsah]. (Columbia University Libraries, 1600), by 1140 or 1141-1202 or 1203 Niẓāmī Ganjavī, Carl Reinhardt, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Juzʼ al-tāsiʻ. (Columbia University Libraries, 1750), by David Eugene Smith, Nafīsah bint al-Ḥājj Muḥammad Ghalyūn, and Muslim World Manuscripts (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire naturelle de l'ame (s.n., 1747), by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil Du Châtelet, and François-Joseph Hunauld (page images at HathiTrust)

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