Bound volume of 9 major US Department of Agriculture Division of Forestry bulletins, 1899-1901

Half leather 8vo, multiple paginations. A hefty volume with stress to the binding, overall Good to Very Good; 1" chip to spine head and general restoration to leather, previously suffering from red rot, since tinted and stabilized with cellugel. Contents clean and unmarked. Bulletins published under the Chief of Forestry tenures of B. E. Fernow and Gifford Pinchot, reflecting the impact of modernization on local ecosystems, including the effects of the railroad, logging, and fires. All quite scarce in commerce. Includes publications by heavy-hitters in the fields of botany and agriculture, including the hugely impactful "Systematic Plant Introduction: Its Purposes and Methods" by David Fairchild, the botanist who revolutionized modern agriculture in the US by introducing thousands of non-native plants and crops to be farmed domestically. Other contributors include Henry Graves, who founded the Yale Forest School the following year and became Chief of the US Forestry Service in 1910; To