[Rarebooks] FS: Saving Wood from Worms & Decay- 1868 Invention

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National Patent Wood Preserving Company. "THE ROBBINS PROCESS FOR
PRESERVING WOOD AND LUMBER FROM MOULD, DECAY AND DESTRUCTION BY WORMS. An
Invaluable Improvement, Susceptible of Universal Application"

New York: National Patent Wood Preserving Company: 1868.

A promotional book, apparently intended both to sell the product and to
entice investors. The Robbins process used a machine, illustrated on the
frontispiece, to heat lumber, driving its water content out as steam, and
then forcing a creosote vapor mixture into it. The book describes this
process and then gives many examples of uses to which such wood might be
put, including obvious ones like railway ties, bridges and barrels, and
less obvious ones such as wood pavements. The book also discusses
preservation of the nation’s woodlands, and reprints a number of letters
praising the process.

Softcover. 7”x10.5”, 101 pages, wood-engraved frontispiece; original paper
covers, somewhat worn and soiled, with several chips; spine perished; some
internal soil. [30309] $250.00



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