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CHAPUIS, ALFRED; and GÉLIS, ÉDOUARD. Le Monde des Automates. 7 plates with lettered tissue guards; 540 text illustrations. 2 volumes. 4to, 280x226 mm, contemporary 1/4 black leather with original wrappers bound in, spines scuffed, wrappers soiled and spotted; negligible foxing on Volume 1 preliminaries, contents otherwise generally clean. Paris, 1928
first edition of the classic history of the development of automata from antiquity to the 19th century, with chapters on related subjects including artificial limbs in orthopedics.number 840 of 1000 sets.
