First Edition of 1849 US Patent Report w/ Patent for Abraham Lincoln's Invention

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First Edition of 1849 US Patent Report w/ Patent for Abraham Lincoln's Invention:
$2000.00

[ABRAHAM LINCOLN] UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1849: Part I Arts and Manufacturers. Office of Printers to the House of Representatives, 1850.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING OF THE 1849 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE REPORT CONTAINING A PATENT FOR ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S INVENTION

First edition, first printing, 9” by 5.75”, 626 pages, marble boards, leather corner tips and spine, spine gilt lettering, and in good condition with wearing along the boards, annotations from previous owners written on the endpapers and flyleafs, folding and minor tears to a few of the first and last pages, foxing and dampstaining throughout, and toning on a few pages near the center from pressed flowers inside the volume.

LINCOLN’S PATENT FOR A DEVICE TO LIFT BOATS OVER SHOALS IS REFERENCED ON PAGES 57 AND 96 AND HIS DESCRIPTIVE STATEMENT IS ON PAGE 262

Contains patent listing for Abraham Lincoln of Springfield, IL on pages 57 and 96 and his descriptive statement is on page 262 in which he acknowledges that, “What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by letters patent, is the combination of expansible buoyant chambers, placed at the sides of a vessel....” On May 22, 1849, Lincoln received, “Patent No. 6469 - Improved method of lifting Vessels over Shoals.”

A RARE AND UNIQUE PRESIDENTIAL COLLECTIBLE CONSIDERING LINCOLN REMAINS THE ONLY PRESIDENT TO HOLD A PATENT

While on a river trip returning home to Illinois in 1848, young Congressman Lincoln’s boat became stranded on a sandbar. Trying to solve the problem, Lincoln designed a device to free stuck boats by lowering floats on each side of the boat. The floats would be inflated and would then lift the boat out of the sand. Lincoln became familiar with river navigation as a flatboat operator on the Mississippi River in his late teens and early twenties. Although there is no record that the invention was ever used, a scale model resides at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.

WE WERE ONLY ABLE TO LOCATE ONE OTHER COPY AVAILABLE FOR SALE AT sale AND IT SOLD FOR $3,125 IN 2007

A rare and unique presidential collectible considering Lincoln remains the only President to hold a patent and we were only able to locate one other copy available for sale at sale, which sold for $3,125 at Signature House in October 2007.