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Colonial Williamsburg Journal

Title A Curious Collection
Issue Volume 36, Number 04, (CWJ, Autumn 2014)
Description A copy of Charles Lucien Bonaparte's "American Ornithology", a gift of Mrs. John R. Opel, is now in the Rockefeller Library's special collections. Bonaparte, a distinguished naturalist and the nephew of the French emperor Napoleon, came in 1823 with his wife Zenaide, his first cousin, to the New Jersey estate of her father Joseph during his 20 year American exile.
Author Mayo, Doug
Pages 22