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Leather. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Volume 20, Number 42, Part 1. Hard cover large 8vo in full leather. Near Fine. Leather rubbed, titling (if there was one) gone, margins of endpapers offset, else Fine and unmarked. This volume contains the Reports of the Commissioners to the Paris Exhibition of 1878. 464pp, illustrated in huge gorgeous color map of theParis exhibition at rear. This is a PRESENTATION COPY, SIGNED BY GOV. S. J. KIRKWOOD, then Senator from Iowa. Samuel Jordan Kirkwood (December 20, 1813 - September 1, 1894), was an anti-slavery Republican, best known as Iowa's American Civil War Governor. He also served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of the Interior. A sculpture of him is maintained among the two coveted statues apportioned to each state on display under the rotunda in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Signed by Author(s). Book.