[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 1868 American Wood-Preserving Machine Promotion

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: “The Robbins Process for Preserving Wood and Lumber from Mould,
Decay and Destruction by Worms. An Invaluable Improvement, Susceptible of
Universal Application”

Published in New York by the National Patent Wood Preserving Company in 1868.

DISCUSSION: 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.

DESCRIPTION: Softcover. 7”x10.5”, 101 pages, wood-engraved frontispiece.

CONDITION NOTES: Original paper covers worn and soiled, with several
chips; spine perished; internal soil.

PRICE: $250. -

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