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LIEBER, Francis. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge: A paper on the vocal sounds of Laura Bridgeman, the blind deaf-mute at Boston; compared with the elements of phonetic language, [n.p., n.d.], 4°, 31pp., fly title, facsimile plate [bound with:] A. P. W. Philip. On the Nature of Sleep ... from the Philosophical Transactions of 1833, London: by Richard Taylor, 1833, 4°, [2] + pp. 73-87 [and:] W. WHEWELL. Second Memoir of the Fundamental Antithesis of Philosophy ... from the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society vol. VIII part V, Cambridge: at the Pitt Press by John W. Parker, 1848, 4°, 11pp. [and:] Lambert Adolphe Jacques QUETELET. Recherches sur le poids de l'homme aux différens ages, Brussels: M. Hayez, 1833, 4°, [2] + 44pp., 2 folding lithographed plates (spotting) [and:] Carl Gustav CARUS. Ueber Grund und Bedeutung der verschiedenen Formen der Hand in verschiedenen Personen, Stuttgart: Becher's Verlag, 1846, 4°, vi + 18pp., with half title and 8 lithographed plates (some spotting), together 5 papers in one volume, later 19th-century brown morocco with Houghton crest (rubbed and soiled).