An ill wind
Dec 18th, 2012 by houghtonmodern
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection.
The two volumes featured today demonstrate the enduring appeal of the scatological. La crépitonomie, ou l’art des pets (1815) and L’art de péter: essai théori-physique et méthodique (1776) are two humorous works on flatulence: the former a book-length poem and the latter an essay. Though their authors are anonymized in the books themselves, we know them to have been written by Ducastel de Saint-Paul and Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut. Both volumes feature frontispieces that satirize the symbolic grandeur that might attend such illustrations in more serious works.
Ducastel de Saint-Paul. La crépitonomie. A Paris: Chez L. G. Michaud, imprimeur du roi, MDCCCVX [1815]. FC8.D8558.815c.
Pierre-Thomas-Nicolas Hurtaut. L’art de péter. En Westphalie, [i.e. Paris]: Chez Florent-Q, rue Pet-en-Gueule, au Soufflet., MDCCLXXVI [1776]. FC7.H9477.776ab.
Thanks to rare book cataloger Ryan Wheeler for contributing this post.
Interesting book- here is the full content online:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k85955k