179- MAURET DE POURVILLE (Jean-Baptiste-Louis-Auguste de). Des Incendies et des moyens de les prévenir et de les combattre, dans les théâtres, les édifices publics, les établissements privés et sur les personnes. Paris, Paul Dupont, s.d. (1869), in-12, red half-chagrin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fleurons and cold-stamped fillets, cold-stamped frames on chagrined cloth boards, gilt edges (period binding). Some foxing. The work is mainly concerned with the fires that frequently ravaged the theaters of the period. Born in 1795 in La Martinique, Mauret de Pourville had been sub-prefect of Péronne.