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100 1 $aVaucanson, Jacques de,$d1709-1782.
245 13 $aAn account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing on the German-flute :$bas it was presented in a memoire, to the gentlemen of the Royal-Academy of Sciences at Paris ... Together with a description of an artificial duck, eating, drinking, macerating the food, and voiding excrements; pluming her wings, picking her feathers, and performing several operations in imitation of a living duck ... as also that of another image, no less wonderful than the first, playing on the tabor and pipe /$cTranslated out of the French original, by J.T. Desaguliers.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted by T. Parker, and sold by Mr. Stephen Varillon,$c1742.
300 $a24 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aTranslation of Le Mécanisme du fluteur automate, published 1738.