Léon DAUDET (1867-1942). MANUSCRIT autograph signed, L'Automate (suite) 8 fol. pages (cut out for printing and reassembled). The scientist Otto Sterpius has built, with the help of the Devil, a "homunculus", christened Vladislas, whom he considers to be his son. Attached is a L.A.S., 7 December 1916, to S. Bonmariage; the announcement of his marriage to Jeanne Hugo (1891); a photograph by Ch. Gerschel.