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Lot 121

Chapuis, Alfred and Edouard Gelis. Le Monde des Automates.

Estimate: $900 - $1,200

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Chapuis, Alfred and Edouard Gelis. Le Monde des Automates. Paris, 1928. Number 66 from an edition of 1,000 copies. Two vols., contemporary crushed half leather, raised spine lettered and ornamented in gilt. Marbled endleaves. Illustrated, including color plates under tissue-guard. 4to. Leather lightly or mildly tearing at edges. Bookplates of Roland Winder and Milbourne Christopher. With a note signed by Winder stating, “The two Volumes given to my good friend Milbourne Christopher on the occasion his 70th Birthday.”

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