1841 · Roma
by BONAPARTE, Carlo L. Principe
Roma: Dalla Tipografia Salviucci, 1841. Battistelli. Color lithograph with hand colored embellishments. Measures 15" x 10 7/8" Beautiful print of two species of geckos, from "Iconografia della Fauna Italica Per Le Quattro Classi Degli Animali Vertebrati", published between 1832-1841. Carlo Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1803-1857) was a French biologist and ornithologist. As the nephew of Napoleon and the 2nd Prince of Canino, he was raised in Italy but moved to Philadelphia shortly after marriage, where he worked alongside Alexander Wilson, updating his seminal "Wilson's Ornithology, or History of the Birds of the United States." After his return (truncated)