[HURTAULT, Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas]. - Lot 450

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[HURTAULT, Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas]. - Lot 450
[HURTAULT, Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas]. The Art of farting, a theoretical and methodical essay, for the use of constipated persons, (...). Followed by the History of Pet-en-l'Air & of the Queen of the Amazons... New edition. Augmented by the Society of the Free Players (...) Westphalia, Florent-Q, rue Pet-en-Gueule, [Paris, after Weller], 1776. 1 vol. in-8. 19th century glazed calf, gilt roulette on the boards, spine with false nerves, blue morocco title-piece. Frontispiece, 216pp, [1]f blank. New edition illustrated with an amusing frontispiece on copper. Woodcut headbands and footnotes, 3 of which are signed "Beugnet". "This work is only a translation made by Hurtault, master of boarding school, of the treatise "De Peditu", work published by G. Dornau". >Ex-libris glued to the first blank page: René-Charles Guilbert de Pixerécourt, with the motto: "A book is a friend that never changes". French playwright from Nancy. Shortly before his death, he had the catalogue of his library published, consisting of more than 4000 precious volumes. Two uncut leaves, wetness in the lower margin of page 157. Beginning of splits at the spines, with loss and wormholes at the headpieces, loss at the corners and the edges. Barbier, I, 293.
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