Item #106216 L’Art De Peter, Essay Théori-Physique et Méthodique. Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut.

L’Art De Peter, Essay Théori-Physique et Méthodique.

1751. Westphalie: Chez Florent-Q., Tue Pet-en-Guele, au Soufflet, MDCCLI [i. e. Paris, Jean-Baptiste Langlois, 1751].

12mo, 108 pp. With a full-page engraved frontispiece. Later full calf, backstrip lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boards lightly rubbed and worn at corners; a very good copy.

§ First (only?) edition of this very rare satire on farting, complete with the magnificent frontispiece. Not in Brunet. Records show the BN, and possibly Yale and Harvard with the only copies. Farting became quite the sensation in the late 19th-century in Paris where a highly skilled farter was the star of his own show: Le Petomane was his title and he was said to be able to fart the Marseillaise and extinguish a candle at several yards, to the delight of all who witnessed. Item #106216

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