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HISTOIRE DE L’ACADEMIE ROYALE AND MEMOIRES DE LITTERATURE, T. 3, ILLUSTR., 1746, in FRENCH 2 works in one binding. 1. HISTOIRE DE L’ACADEMIE ROYALE DES INSCRIPTIONS ET BELLES LETTRE 2. MEMOIRES DE LITTERATURE TIREZ DES REGISTRES DE A PARIS, DE L'IMPRIMERIE ROYALE, M.DCCXLVI. (1746) 6 + 354 pp & 413 pp., ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS: DECORATIONS, INITIALS, &VIGNETTES WITH 2 LITHOGRAPHED EXLIBRISES of Norfolk & Norwich Library: SIZE: 6 x 10cm and 18.2 x 11.5cm. ON SECOND EXLIBRIS INSCRIBED THAT THE BOOK PRESENTED BY John Henry Gurney. STAMPED LEATHER HARD COVER WITHGOLD LETTERING AND DECORATIONS, MARMOREAL ENDPAPERS & EDGES; SIZE: 25.8 x 20.3 cm. CONDITION: TEARS TO HINGES OF SPINE; DAMAGE TO TOP AND BOTTTOM OF SPINE BINDING IS TIGHT; WEAR AND RUBBING TO COVER, CONERS CHIPPED AND BUMPED; SOME WORM HOLES TO FIRST PAGES AND LAST ENDPAPERS; LIGHT YELLOWING PAPER, SOME PAGES LIGHT BROWN WEIGHT: 1830 gr. John Henry Gurney (4 July 1819 – 20 April 1890) was an English banker , amateur ornithologist , and Liberal Party [1] politician of the Gurney family .