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vintage set of eighteen bound volumes of the Bulletins of the US Bureau of Plant Industry - branch of the US Dept. of Agriculture -- set runs consecutively from Bulletin no. 137 to 281 -- covers the years 1909 to 1913 -- -- a great deal of information about Tobacco is included in a number of Bulletins: the one with the 2 tobacco maps is over 90 pages - topics include history, cultivation, curing (50+pgs), lots on cigars, and other related topics -- a couple on wine grape bulletins are included, as is a Bulletin on American Medicinal Barks (50+pgs) -- cotton, mangos, soy beans and numerous other plants are included -- -- there are several color plates throughout and several maps including the ones shown: the wine grape regions of California and two amazing hand-colored Tobacco Region Maps: Western and Eastern -- -- the Eastern tobacco map measures 33 by 41 in. and covers Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas / the Western is 30 by 39 in. and covers mostly Tennessee and Kentucky with some of Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia -- -- books are beautifully bound in quarter leather with marbled boards, page edges and endpapers -- 6 by 9 in. app. 250-350 pages each -- -- vols. generally in very good condition: lightly shaken from use -- some fading to the spine binding -- rub wear on the edges -- index tabs on the different bulletins -- one of the 2 large tobacco district maps has a short rip -- -- **from what information I can gather, this set is exceedingly rare** -- Each week we post a number of interesting items that have been purchased from Oregon Estate Sales-shipping can be recalculated and combined with multiple purchases-please let me do the calculating for combined shipments before paying. Thank you for visiting our site.

vintage set of eighteen bound volumes of the Bulletins of the US Bureau of Plant Industry - branch of the US Dept. of Agriculture -- set runs consecutively from Bulletin no. 137 to 281 -- covers the years 1909 to 1913 -- -- a great deal of information about Tobacco is included in a number of Bulletins: the one with the 2 tobacco maps is over 90 pages - topics include history, cultivation, curing (50+pgs), lots on cigars, and other related topics -- a couple on wine grape bulletins are included, as is a Bulletin on American Medicinal Barks (50+pgs) -- cotton, mangos, soy beans and numerous other plants are included -- -- there are several color plates throughout and several maps including the ones shown: the wine grape regions of California and two amazing hand-colored Tobacco Region Maps: Western and Eastern -- -- the Eastern tobacco map measures 33 by 41 in. and covers Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas / the Western is 30 by 39 in. and covers mostly Tennessee and Kentucky with some of Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia -- -- books are beautifully bound in quarter leather with marbled boards, page edges and endpapers -- 6 by 9 in. app. 250-350 pages each -- -- vols. generally in very good condition: lightly shaken from use -- some fading to the spine binding -- rub wear on the edges -- index tabs on the different bulletins -- one of the 2 large tobacco district maps has a short rip -- -- **from what information I can gather, this set is exceedingly rare** -- Each week we post a number of interesting items that have been purchased from Oregon Estate Sales-shipping can be recalculated and combined with multiple purchases-please let me do the calculating for combined shipments before paying. Thank you for visiting our site.