L’Art de peter, esssai theori-physique et methodique

by Pierre Thomas Nicolas Hurtaut

$2,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

“Westphalie”: “Florent-Q”, 1776. 12mo. 216 pp. Etched frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-ruled marbled calf, spine and label gilt, edges marbled blue, red silk marker. A very good copy. Item #19446 First edition thus of this whimsical piece of medical burlesque literature on farting for the “use of constipated, serious and austere personnages, melancholic ladies, and those who remain slaves to

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