Bonaparte, Charles Lucien

Specchio Comparativo Delle Ornitologie di Roma e di Filadelfia

Pisa: Dalla Tipgrafia Nistri. Estratto dal No. XXXIII. del Nuovo Giornale de' Letterati, 1827 A wonderful association copy of a rare book by one of the founders of American ornithology, inscribed on the front wrapper to the Philadelphia malacologist Isaac Lea, father of Mathew Carey Lea, and one of the greatest experts on mollusks of his time (see DAB). Bonaparte's book, originally published as an article in the Nuovo Giornale de' Letterati, consists of "a list in parallel columns, of 247 species of birds of Rome and 281 of Philadelphia, arranged under their respective genera and families" - Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 65-66. For Bonaparte's role in American ornithology and in nineteenth-century scientific thought, see The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World by Patricia Tyson Stroud (2000) First edition. 8vo. 80pp. Three quarter red morocco and boards, with the original wrappers bound in. Fine. Bookplates of Colonel John Eliot Thayer (1862-1933) and Daniel Webster Evans (1907-1966). Ayer/Zimmer, pp. 65-66

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• Bestellnummer: 14724

• Antiquariat: James Cummins Bookseller Inc. (USA)