Des Herrn Swifft Grand misteré oder das grosse Geheimniss und die Kunst=Betrachtungen über dem Abtritt anzustellen ...
Publisher: a.M.?
Published: 1748
Place of publication: Frankfurt
Language: ger
Number of pages: 152
Other titles: Erhabene, erlaubte und vernünfftige Mittel.
Notes: Numbers 63-64 repeated in paging.

Pages [1]-27 contain a German translation of The grand mystery, or Art of meditating over an house of office, sometimes erroneously attributed to Jonathan Swift and to Edward Ward (cf. Teerink 933). The 4th prelim. leaf contains a title "Erhabene, erlaubte und vernünfftige Mittel, wie halb=gelehrte Leuthe in der Welt, Ehre, Reichthum, gute Tage, und Dienste erlangen können. Denen Schmachtenden ... in die Hand gegeben und ... erläutert von Hermelini [pseud.]"; in the "Vorrede" (prelim. leaves 2-3) the anonymous author claims that this latter is a translation of an Italian work dealing with "Machiavellischen Reguln oder Mittel sich in Renommee zu setzen und reich zu werden" and says that he does not know whether it was written by "Johann Läti ein Medicus zu Verona oder Ferante Pallavicini"; it is more probably an original work and not a translation, since it contains references to German authors.

No. 2 in a volume lettered on spine: Satyrische Schrifften XII. Th.