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Household heating.- wood.- Cointeraux (François) Avis au Peuple sur l'Economie de son bois, first edition, 2 folding engraved plates, occasional spotting, contemporary orange wrappers, a few small stains, uncut, 8vo, Paris, Cointeraux, 1806. ⁂ Rare pamphlet (OCLC locates only one copy (Bibliothèque Nationale), and we can add a defective copy at the BL) outlining a method to decrease the use of wood in household heating, thereby cutting down on polluting smoke and smells. Cointeraux had been the first architect to study rural agronomic construction techniques and championed the reintroduction of the rammed earth building.