[CURIOSA - HURTAULT (Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas)]. Peteriana ou l'Art de Peter, vesser et roter à l'usage des personnes constipées, graves, mélancoliques et tristes. Au Pays des Bonnes-Odeurs: Pete en l'air, 1883. - In-12, paperback. New edition of this amusing text by Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtault, first published in 1775, "in which we explain the means of concealing or provoking them, the sixty-two different sounds they make, forming a singular concert, as well as the means of recognizing by taste and smell whether they are farts of the province, of the household, of master-at-arms, damsels, young girls, married women, bourgeoises, peasant women, shepherdesses, old women, bakers, tailors, geographers, cuckolds, etc. etc. etc., all written by a piece of shit". The edition is illustrated with a reproduction of the frontispiece from the original. A perfectly preserved copy, largely uncut. It is enhanced by a second copy of the frontispiece.