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HISTOIRE DE L'ACADEMIE ROYALE AND MEMOIRES DE LITTERATURE, ILLUSTR., T. 5, 1729, IN FRENCH HISTOIRE DE L'ACADEMIE ROYALE DES INSCRIPTIONS ET BELLES LETTRES avec les Memoires de Litterature tires des Registres de cette Academie, depuis lТannee M.DCCXVIII, jusques & compris lТannee M.DCCXXV, Tome cinquieme, 2. MEMOIRES DE LITTERATURE TIREZ DES REGISTRES DE L’ACADEMIE ROYALE DES INSCRIPTIONS ET BELLES LETTRES a Paris, de Imprimerie Royale, M. DCCXXIX (1729) 6 + 442 & 430pp., ILLUSTRATED BY 4 FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES, 2 FOLDING MAPS, DECORATIONS, INITIAL & VIGNETTES WITH 2 LITHOGRAPHED EXLIBRISES OF Norfolk & Norwich Library: SIZE: 6x10cm & 18.2x11.5 cm. ON SECOND EXLIBRIS INSCRIBED THAT THE BOOK PRESENTED BY John Henry Gurney. STAMPED LEATHER HARD COVER WITH GOLD LETTERING AND DECORATIONS, MARMOREAL ENDPAPERS & EDGES, SIZE: 25.8 x 20 cm CONDITION: TEARS TO HINGES OF SPINE; DAMAGE TO TOP AND BOTTTOM OF SPINE BINDING IS TIGHT WEAR AND RUBBING TO COVER, CORNERS CHIPPED AND BUMPED; LIGHT YELLOWING PAPER, SOME PAGES BROWN SOME PAGES WITH FOXING; WORM HOLES THROUGHOUT THE BOOK, MAINLY NEAR SPINE. WEIGHT: 2000gr. John Henry Gurney (4 July 1819 – 20 April 1890) was an English banker , amateur ornithologist , and Liberal Party [1] politician of the Gurney family .