An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Beech-Oil Invention, and all the Steps which have been taken in that Affair, from the First Discovery to the Present Time

by Aaron Hill

$1,950 · Offered by Martayan Lan

First edition

First edition of a treatise, chiefly comprising letters and essays, providing an in-depth discussion of the discovery and promulgation of a technique for extracting oil from beech nuts. Beech nuts were particularly plentiful in England and their oil was both simple to extract and useful as fuel and for many..... More

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