LACHAMBEAUDIE, Pierre Les hors-d'oeuvre. Bruxelles [H. Kistemaeckers ?] 1852-1868 In-8° : [4]-15 pp. (endpapers reinforced, some light stains, annotations in pencil). Post red percaline boards, witnesses cons. Extremely rare bibliophilic edition of 6 erotic-scatological fables: "La m... et le cochon", "L'avare et le diable", "Le bout de viande", etc. 1/44 (of 50) on small Hollande paper (3rd pap., hand num. 41). Title in red and black adorned with a faun's head. Ref. Pia 656 (not publisher's id.). - Not in Dutel, nor Oberlé, Poulet-Malassis (cites 1st ed. of "La merde et le cochon" in "Parnasse satyrique"). - Cf. Baudet 236 (ed. not described but attributed to Kistemaeckers).

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