Bonaparte, C. L. (1803-1857)

Charles Lucien Bonaparte, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, had a long and prolific career as a natural historian. He spent six years in the United States, between 1822 and 1828, where he was a friend of John James Audubon. His key works include an updating of Alexander Wilson’s “American Ornithology”; an 1841 study of Italian wildlife “Iconografia della Fauna Italica”; and “Iconographie des Pigeons”. This work was Bonaparte’s fine collection of portraits of pigeons and was intended to appear in thirty monthly installments, with a total of 150 plates, but the author died after the publication of part four. The publishers went forward with an additional eight installments, the last of which appeared in July 1858.

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