James Harlan by Johnson, Brigham - 1913

Iowa City, IA: The State Historical Society of Iowa, 1913. First Edition. The author's copy with his handsome bookplate (designed by his artist daughter) to the front pastedown; two SIGNED pictures of Senator Harlan one an original photograph tipped in..8vo. xvi, 398pp. Extra-illustrated with some 70 etchings and engravings of persons described in the book. Three-quarter burgundy morocco and tan buckram; top edge gilt; gilt-decorated spine in six compartments; tapa design endpapers. Minor wear; else a fine copy. James Harlan was U.S. Senator (Iowa) and a close friend of President Abraham Lincoln and his family (his daughter Mary married Lincoln's son Robert Todd Lincoln). After Lincoln's assassination, Harlan resigned from the Senate when he was appointed as Secretary of the Interior under President Andrew Johnson before returning to the Senate 1867-1873. A volume in the Iowa Biographical Series edited by Benjamin F. Shambaugh, who has autographed his tipped-in picture.   .