A good collection of these translations of scarce classic mycological and bacterial texts, mainly relating to plant diseases. Dissertation on the Cause of the Corruption and Smutting of the Kernels of Wheat in the Head, and on the means of preventing these untoward circumstances. 1755. [M. Tillet of Bordeaux, translated from the French by Harry Baker Humphrey]. Published Ithaca 1937. Very clean internally, 189 pages, paperback. Observations on the Rust of Grain. 1757. [Felice Fontana. Translated by Pascal Pompey Pirone,] Published Ithaca 1932. Very clean internally, portrait frontispiece, 40 pages, paperback. The Nature, Causes and Sad Effects of the Rust, the Bunt, the Smut, and other maladies of wheat and of oats in the field. 1767. [Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti, translated by Leo R. Tehon]. Published Ithaca 1952. very clean internally, a portrait frontispiece, a facsimile title page, 139 pages, grey cloth slightly worn and marked, the spine very browned. Memoir on the Immediate Cause of Bunt or Smut of Wheat, and of several other diseases of plants, and on preventatives of bunt. 1807. [Benedict Prevost, translayed by George Wannamaker Keitt.]. Published Menesha (1939) 1970. very clean internally, a facsimile title page, three plates, one diagram, pp 95, paperback. The Fischer-Smith Controversy : Are There Bacterial Diseases of Plants ? 1897 - 1899. [Alfred Fischer & Erwin F. Smith, translated and prepared by C. Lee Campbell]. Published St Paul, 1981. With two portraits, eleven plates, 65 pages, a very bright paperback. [Four papers]. Concerning the Mosaic Disease of Tobacco. 1886. [Adolf Mayer]. Concerning the Mosaic Disease of the Tobacco Plant. 1892. [Dimitri Ivanowski]. Concerning a Contagium Vivum Fluidum as a Cause of the Spot-Disease of Tobacco Leaves. 1898. [Martinus W. Beijerinck]. On the Etiology of Infectious Variegation. 1904. Erwin Baur. All translated from the German by James Johnson, (1942) 1968. With four portraits and three plates, 62 pages, a very bright paperback. All published in the Phytpathological Classics series - these being numbers 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, & 13. [These all came from the library of Sir John Burnett, with his signature on the front cover of two of them. A distinguished academic career and a lifelong interest in fungi, botany and nature conservation made him the ideal champion for biological recording in the UK. He held that effective nature conservation could be achieved only if good quality information about species and their habitats was accessible to all who needed it - a belief that made him perfectly suited to run the National Biodiversity Network, founded in 2000. He was convinced that academics with high administrative posts must continue with some personal research, in his case on the myxomycetes.]