[Rarebooks] fs: Lincoln predicts Caterpillar tractors?

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(No. 10568 )  [Quinn, Joseph A.]. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ON THE COMING OF THE 
CATERPILLAR TRACTOR (COVER TITLE).
[Peoria, IL]: (s.n.), [1929]. Wrappers, Octavo, 20 pages. Very good.
      Promotional piece for the Caterpillar Tractor Company. Reprints the 
text of Lincoln's address at the Wisconsin State Agricultural Fair in 
Milwaukee, September 30, 1859, in which he imagines a machine that can plow 
better, cheaper, and faster than animal power. This copy apparently belonged 
to noted Lincoln medical scholar Milton H. Shutes, as he has SIGNED the 
preliminary blank leaf. Includes stats and comparisons of Caterpillar 
tractors with wheeled tractors. MONAGHAN #3127. Bound tan paper covers over 
a saddle-stapled binding, red and black tinted cut of Lincoln on front 
cover. Light extremity rubs, lower fore corners of leaves are lightly 
rippled, otherwise clean and bright....... $75.00
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