{"id":10520,"date":"2016-04-05T13:58:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10520"},"modified":"2016-04-05T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:58:01","slug":"other-peoples-bird-books-bonapartes-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/05\/other-peoples-bird-books-bonapartes-pigeons\/","title":{"rendered":"Other People’s Bird Books: Bonaparte’s Pigeons"},"content":{"rendered":"

This one is, simply put, spectacular. The front wrapper of the University of Wisconsin’s copy of the offprint of Charles Bonaparte’s\u00a0Coup d’\u0153il sur l’ordre des pigeons<\/em> bears this inscription:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot<\/p>\n

The black ink is a bit hard to read on the green ground, and it didn’t help that Bonaparte or someone smeared the leaf, but it reads<\/p>\n

M. Waterton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walton Hall near York, from his friend the author —\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

care of Mr. Gould.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bonaparte and Charles Waterton had been on good terms\u00a0ever since the ships they were traveling on collided in June 1841<\/a>, an accident that resulted in their reconciliation after some earlier hurt feelings. Gould, of course, is John Gould, the English artist and entrepreneur, a frequent go-between for Bonaparte and his colleagues in Britain.<\/p>\n

This little book passed through some pretty famous hands before it somehow made its way to Madison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This one is, simply put, spectacular. The front wrapper of the University of Wisconsin’s copy of the offprint of Charles Bonaparte’s\u00a0Coup d’\u0153il sur l’ordre des pigeons bears this inscription: The black ink is a bit hard to read on the green ground, and it didn’t help that Bonaparte or someone smeared the leaf, but it … <\/p>\n

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