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PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). tudes sur la maladie des vers soie, moyen pratique assur de la combattre et d'en prvenir le retour. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1870.
2 volumes, 8o (226 x 151 mm). Photogravure frontispiece and 36 plates (21 engravings, of which 12 hand-colored, and 15 photographic plates), with tissue guards, and 13 illustrations in text (Vol.I); heliogravure plate (Vol.II). Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Provenance: Colonel Baron Eugne Georges Henri Cleste Stoffel (1823-1907), France's military attach to Prussia in 1866 (inscribed by the author "A Mr. le Baron Stoffel hommage bien affectueux L. Pasteur").
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. In 1865 Pasteur was asked to consider the disease of silkworms that had plagued France for almost 20 years, and which had cut silk production dramatically. Pasteur discovered that two diseases, pbrine and flacherie, were responsible, and that both were hereditary and contagious. He was able to introduce practical preventative measures, with considerable, if not total, success. Cushing P140; Garrison-Morton 2481; Heirs of Hippocrates 1897; Osler 1549; Norman 1657.
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FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. In 1865 Pasteur was asked to consider the disease of silkworms that had plagued France for almost 20 years, and which had cut silk production dramatically. Pasteur discovered that two diseases, pbrine and flacherie, were responsible, and that both were hereditary and contagious. He was able to introduce practical preventative measures, with considerable, if not total, success. Cushing P140; Garrison-Morton 2481; Heirs of Hippocrates 1897; Osler 1549; Norman 1657.
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