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Les automates truques.
Published by Genev`e Ed itions Bossard / Ed ition Ch. Eggimann 1927, 1927
Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, France
Association Member: ABA ILAB NVVA
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
First Edition
US$ 547.58
Convert currencyUS$ 40.56 shipping from France to U.S.A.Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketScarce. First edition. Hardback. Issued in printed soft wrappers, which are now bound in to attractive quarter brown calf with mottled boards. Gilt stamped title to spine. Original front cover has mounted b/w illustration of chess-playing automaton. Author, title and illustration within ornamental border. This work describes false automatons; devices that appear to move, think, and act of their own accord or by clockwork, but are instead controlled by some hidden apparatus or device operated by a conjurer or their assistant. Includes sections on Robert-Houdin, and the chess playing 'The Turk' of Wolfgang von Kempelen. Adolphe Blind was often referred to as 'Professeur Magicus'. Text in French. Back cover printed: Grave et imprimé par S.A.D.A.G. Genève. In very good condition. Neat ink name to front blank page. [4], 9-80 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans. 255 x 180 mm (10 x 7 inches). .
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Les automates truqués.
Published by Paris: Bossard, 1927
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small 4to. 79 pp. Bound in original printed wraps with a laid down image of a chess-playing automaton on the front cover as issued. Profusion of illustrations. A publisher's flyer for the two-volume work on automata by Chapuis and Gelis laid in. Bookplate. The gatherings are largely un-cut. Text in French.
