Parker, T., 17..?-17..
Parker, Charles 17..-17..? libraire
VIAF ID: 51928598 ( Personal )
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An account of the mechanism of an automaton, or image playing in the German-flute: as it was presented in a Memoire, to the gentlemen of the Royal-Academy of Sciences at Paris. By M. Vaucanson, inventor and maker of the said machine. Together with a Description of an artifial 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: contrived by the same person. As also that of another image, no less wonderful than the first, playing on the Tabor and Pipe; as he has given an account of them since the Memoire was written. Translated out of the French original, by J. T. Desaguliers, L.L.D. F.R.S. Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.. | |
catalogue of the very neat collections of books, of a gentleman, deceased : with some others purchased since Christmas... Which will be daily selling during the summer 1772. The prices being mark'd particularly low, for ready money, by C. Parker, bookseller, the upper part of New Bond-street... |