[Rarebooks] FS: Just Dissolve that Glass in Water!! -1873

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Feuchtwanger, Dr. Lewis.  "SOLUBLE GLASS AND ALL ITS APPLICATIONS"

New York; L. & J.W. Feuchtwanger: 1873.

The third edition of Feuchtwanger's treatise, giving an updated and
improved formula and removing extraneous material. "Soluble Glass" or
silicate of soda, is still in wide commercial use today. In the 1870s it
was being promoted "for rendering wood and timber fire and dry rot proof,
silicifying stones, mortars, concrete and hydraulic lime, white washes,
paints and cements, and to protect wooden shingles, pavements, railroad
sleepers, etc.". In his first chapter Feuchtwanger notes (at some length)
an article which promoted the idea that use of soluble glass in building
might have prevented the recent Great Chicago Fire. Becoming difficult to
find.

Hardcover. 5"x7.5", 92 pages. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt title;
covers with light rubbing and soil, spine head and base bumped.  [30626] 
$150.00


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