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[Automata] Chapuis, Alfred and Edmond Droz. Les Automates: Figures Artificielles d’Hommes et d’Animaux. Neuchâtel: Édition du Griffon, [1949]. Full plum morocco, raised spines with gilt rolls, second spine compartment titled in gilt, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Colored frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs + colored plates. Original wrappers bound at front and rear; original backstrip bound at rear. 4to. Spotting to front board, top edge dampstained; not affecting text block, boards bowed possibly from moisture. Interior clean and bright. An important early reference work on automata.