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UNE EXCURSION EN CORSE
189145309Paris: Imprime pour l'Auteur. 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to; xi 1 273 5 pages; Contents clean and secure in modern blue buckram binding c. 1903 with gilt lettering at spine marbled endpapers and edges bound for the Library of Congress "gift of the author"; Copy 2 release stamp on small bookplate on front endpaper; original printed front wrappers bound in at rear; faint area on spine where label removed. Illustrations include a frontispiece and 5 additional full page plates -- four beautiful heliogravures of Corsica and a reproduction of the baptismal certificates of Napoleon and Lucien Bonaparte. The Bonaparte's travel narrative is followed by an important bibliography of works relating to Corsica p. 147-273. Contents: Foreword; From Paris to Monte d'Oro; From the Foce de Vizzavona to Bastia; From Bastia to Ajaccio via Calvi; From Ajaccio to Sartène Bonifacio Porto-Vecchio and Back. The author Roland Napoléon Bonaparte 6th Prince of Canino and Musignano 1858 – 1924 was a French prince and president of the Société de Géographie from 1910 until his death. Roland Bonaparte was the great-nephew of Napoleon I the grandson of Lucien and the son of Justine Eléonore Ruflin and Pierre-Napoléon Bonaparte famous for killing the journalist Victor Noir in 1870 in a duel. He was the last male-lineage descendant of Lucien Bonaparte the genetically senior branch of the family since 1844. Roland’s father’s numerous escapades led to Roland spending his infancy isolated from the rest of the Bonaparte family. Despite this he graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1879 and began a military career as a sub-lieutenant of the line infantry a career which was stunted when a law was introduced in 1886 which forbade members of the families which had ruled over France from serving in the army. Roland Bonaparte collected specimens and compiled one of the biggest herbariums in the world. Bonaparte was elected an International Member of the American Philosophical Society in 1895 and was the President of the Société astronomique de France SAF from 1921 to 1923. . Imprime pour l'Auteur hardcover
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