[HURTAUT, Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas]. The Art of Farting, a theoretical-physical and methodical essay, For the use of constipated Persons, serious & austere Characters, melancholic Ladies, & all those who are slaves to prejudice. Follow-up of the History of Pet-in-the-Air & the Queen of the Amazons, where we find the origin of the Vuidangeurs. New edition. Increased by the Société des Francs-Péteurs, for those who wish to be initiated into it; with two etchings . Westphalia: Floren-Q, 1776[Lille: Horemans printing house, 1869]. - In-8, brown half-marrow, nerves on the back, golden head, not trimmed (original binding ). Reproduction of the 1776 edition of this famous book proposing the translation given by Hurtaut of the De Pedita treatise published in 1619 , a well bound copy, complete with frontispiece and enriched by a 19th century military caricature on the theme of the book. A few small freckles . Provenance: heraldic ex-libris with the Latin motto "Vigor invirtute".