[Rarebooks] FS: FIRE & ICE: 1862 Piston Freezer / Wine Cooler Promo Book

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

>From our new FIRE & ICE Catalog-
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ASH’S PATENT ‘PISTON’ FREEZING MACHINE AND WINE COOLER, FOR FREEZING AND
COOLING LIQUIDS... London; George Simpson, Ice Merchant: [1862]. 2nd
edition.

The title page continues- “The first perfect application of the natural
law of congelation adapted to domestic use; producing results never before
accomplished. Also a cheap and effective method of preserving ice, and a
recipe for preparing the celebrated freezing powders, (the best substitute
for ice yet discovered), together with a variety of other choice recipes
for mixing desert ices, ice puddings, &c., including valuable information,
interesting to housekeepers, confectioners, &c., and essentially important
to residents of all hot climates”.

The Ash Machine, manufactured by Simpson, used an up and down motion which
produced ice or cooled liquid in a fraction of the time that cranked
machines did. The first 34 pages of this booklet describe and illustrate
the machine and the various uses to which it may be put; the booklet then
goes on to describe a method for storing ice in the ground, an ice chest
sold by Simpson, Simpson’s Patent Freezing Vase, a Patent Butter Cooler,
the Seltzogene seltzer bottle, and several other Simpson inventions. This
is followed by several pages of testimonials and then a list of nobility,
clergy, gentlemen and ship’s officers who use the Ash machine. An
interesting and elaborate early promotional book.

Hardcover. 4.5”x7”, 54 pages, line illustrations; elaborately impressed
brown cloth with gilt titles; some soil, a little cover wear; text
browned, lightly soiled, and with foxing to the title page. [09352]
$400.00


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