Automata

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Last updated 29 December 2011

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Bedel (J.): Les Automates
O/P. 86 pages, illustrated, 1987. A well illustrated selection of automata with a brief chapter on the mechanisms within. A fine copy with very good dust jacket. [French language] (Ref: K2334)
Price: £25.00

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Carrera (R.): Les Heures de L'Amour / Hours of Love / die Stunden der Liebe
O/P. 143 pages, illustrated (mostly in colour), no date. A short history of horological automata followed by descriptions and illustrations of enamelled and engraved watches with erotic automata. Excellent copy with very good dust jacket and card slipcase. [French, English and German language] (Ref: K1105)
Price: £95.00

Chapuis (A.) & Droz (E.): Les Automates - Figures Artificielles D'hommes et D'animaux -Histoire et Technique
O/P. 426 pages, 488 figures, 1949. One of the classic books on automata (the English language edition Automata - A Historical and Technological Study was published in 1958). This book includes chapters on articulated masks, clocks & watches with automata, mechanical toys, automaton figures & animals, and lots more. A fine copy. [French language]

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(Ref: K2339)
Price: £150.00

Chapuis (A.) & Gelis (E.): Le Monde des Automates, Etude Historique et Technique
O/P. 2 volumes, 348 pages + 352 pages with 540 figures and 7 plates in total, original card covers bound in, 1928. Limited edition, copy number 606 of 1000 copies. The classic work on all types of automata and their makers which has never been bettered. This book is a comprehensive study ranging from simple ancient Egyptian articulated heads to the complex androids of Jaquet-Droz. There are six chapters about clocks with automata and there is even a chapter on the history of mechanical artificial limbs! The later work by Chapuis & Droz (in 1949/1958) was written as an update to, and not a replacement of, this book. A nicely bound copy in quarter grey calf with marbled boards, with ribbed and gilt tooled spine (now a little rubbed). A very good copy of a rare and valued book. [French language]

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(Ref: K2340)
Price: £1,100.00

Dumas (F.R.): Rencontre de L'automate
O/P. 101 pages, [5 figures], signed by author, 1931. I think this is a philosophical essay on robots and how they will change our future, but I am not sure! A good copy. [French language] (Ref: K2341)
Price: £18.00

Escat (M.): Musee de L'automate
O/P. 22 pages, illustrated, no date [1988?] An illustrated catalogue of the automata in the Musee de L'automate, Souillac, Dordogne. The items included are mainly automaton figures and animals. Very good copy, card covers. [French language] (Ref: K2346)
Price: £15.00

[Galerie Charpentier]: Poupées et Automates Depuis la Renaissance
O/P. [24 pages], illustrated, 1952. The catalogue of an exhibition of automata featuring the collection of Madame de Galea, held at the Galerie Charpentier, Paris. Thin card covers. [French language] (Ref: K2342)
Price: £50.00

Hesketh (D.): Penny-In-the-Slot Automata and the Working Model
NEW. 224 pages, over 300 colour illustrations, published January 2005. The first comprehensive guide to those ingenious amusements which have delighted visitors to the seaside and the fairground for over a century (1860's to 1970's). The book has chapters on the British makers Ahrens, Bolland, Canova, Dennison, Kraft, Lee and Tansley as well as on American working models and coin-operated mechanical music. A price guide and list of museums with good collections is also included. With dust jacket. (Ref: N599)
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Price: £95.00

Korey (M.): The Geometry of Power - Mathematical Instruments and Princely Mechanical Devices from around 1600
NEW. 64 pages, 79 colour illustrations, 2007. An interesting book about the 16th and 17th century instruments collected by the rulers of Saxony, now in the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden. The items include globes, sundial, astrolabe, odometer, encryption devices, clocks and automata. Card covers. (Ref: K2528)

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Price: £14.00

Maurice (K.): Von Uhren und Automaten
O/P. 96 pages, 4 colour and 69 b&w plates, 1968. A useful book, most of the illustrations are of early clocks with automata. A good copy. [German language] (Ref: K2349)
Price: £20.00

Ord-Hume (A.W.J.G.): The Musical Clock - Musical & Automaton Clocks and Watches
NEW. 352 pages, well illustrated in colour and b&w, 1995. The definitive work on musical clocks, including the tunes played, and note on their makers. A very useful book for collectors. With dust jacket. (Ref: N231)
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Price: £49.99

Prasteau (J.): Les Automates
O/P. 189 pages, illustrated, 1968. Another interesting selection of automata - Mozart playing the piano, magicians, the snake charmer, singing birds, a Fabergé egg, the clown, the smoker and many more. A very good copy with good dust jacket. [French language] (Ref: K2348)
Price: £40.00

Troquet (D.): The Wonderland of Music Boxes and Automata
O/P. 223 pages, illustrated, 1989. An interesting well illustrated book about the traditional manufacture of music boxes, and since 1973, the making of automata in Sainte-Croix (in the Jura mountains). The book includes chapters about small music box workshops; music boxes with automata; singing birds; the creation and restoration of automata; and automata treasures from the Sainte-Croix collections. A very good copy with good dust jacket. (Ref: K2350)
Price: £45.00

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