Le grand mistere, ou, L'art de mediter sur la garderobe
Subtitle: avec des observations historiques, politiques & morales, qui prouvent l'antiquité de cette science & qui contiennent les usages differens des diverses nations, par rapport à cet important sujet
By: renouvellé et devoilé par l'ingenieux docteur Swift ; traduit de l'anglois. [Pensées hazardées sur les etudes, la grammaire, la rethorique, et la poëtique / par Mr. G.L. Le Sage].
Contributors: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.; Desfontaines, M. l'abbé 1685-1745.; Le Sage, Georges-Louis, 1676-1759.; Yudin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chez Jean van Duren
Published: 1729
Place of publication: A la Haye
Language: fre
Number of pages: 218
Other titles: Grand mistere.; Art de mediter sur la garderobe.; Pensees hazardées sur les etudes, la grammaire, la rethorique, et la poëtique.
Notes: Teerink, H.  Swift, 933
Swift, J.  Prose works, ed. by T.Scott, XII, p. 224
NUC pre-1956, NG0380274/5
No collective t.p.; titles transcribed from the individual title pages for the 2 works. On the 1st t.p. the subtitle appears between the author statement and the translation statement.
The first work is a translation, by Pierre-François-Guyot Desfontaines, of: The grand mystery, or, Art of meditating over an house of office. The identity of its author (not Jonathan Swift) is unknown. Cf. Barbier, Teerink.
Le Sage's work was first published in 1725.
Publisher's advertisements on p. [194]-218.
Signatures: A-N⁸ O⁶.
LC copy wanting 2 of the first 3 leaves; t.p. is present.
Possibly part of the Yudin Collection.