Le Nouveau Merdiana, ou Manuel Scatologique [WITH] Description de Six Especes de Pets [WITH] La Chezonomie, ou l’Art de Ch… [WITH] L’Art de Peter, Essai Theori-Physique et Methodique… (4 Works in 1)

Paris et en tous lieux; Troyes; Scoropolis: Garnier; Baillieu, [c. 1865]-1873.
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19.5cm x 12.5cm. viii, 160, [2], 16, [iv], 161, [5], 182 pages, 7 plates, black and white illustrations in the text, 4 works in 1 volume. Quarter leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Text is in French.

Four French scatological satires bound together, from mock-scientific treatises on farting to a didactic poem on defecation. Comprising the 1870 ‘Nouveau Merdiana’ with an engraved frontispiece by J. Blondeau, a Troyes chapbook classifying six species of fart, an 1873 edition of Charles Remard’s ‘La Chezonomie’, and a nineteenth-century reprint of Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut’s ‘L’Art de peter’, first published anonymously in 1751.

Boards shelf worn. Minor tanning, very minor foxing. Minor pencil marginalia. Very Good Condition.

AU$600