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BENT, Arthur Cleveland. Life Histories of North American Diving Birds, Washington, 1919, Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 107, 8°, 55 half tone plates, 12 coloured, contemporary cloth gilt, original wrappers bound in. [Wood, p. 232; Zimmer, p. 54]; Life Histories of North American Gulls and Terns, Washington: 1921, Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 113, 8°, 93 half tone plates, 17 coloured, contemporary cloth gilt, original wrappers bound in. [Wood, p. 232: "one of the excellent monographs by this author"; Zimmer, p. 54]; Life Histories of North American Petrels and Pelicans and their Allies, Washington: 1922, Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 121, 8°, 69 half tone plates, contemporary cloth gilt, original wrappers bound in. [Wood, p. 232: "this systematic monograph, one of a most important series by the author, is intended to cover the life-histories of American birds"]; Life Histories of North American Wild Fowl, Washington: 1923, Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 126, 8°, 46 plates, contemporary cloth gilt, original wrappers bound in. [Wood, p. 232: "the plates are excellent"; Zimmer, p. 55]. With Bulletin nos. 135, 142, 146, 162, 167, 170, 174, 176, 179, 191, 195, 196, and 203 of the Smithsonian Institution, on American birds, all written by Arthur C. Bent. (18)
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William H. Workman, bookplates.