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PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). Mmoire sur la fermentation appele lactique. Offprint from: Annales de chimie et de physique, 3rd series, 52 (1858). Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1858.
8o (237 x 155 mm). Original tan printed wrappers (slightly soiled). Red half morocco folding case. Provenance: Gabriel Lam (1795-1870), mathematician (presentation inscription from the author "A Monsieur Lam Membre de l'Institut hommage de profond respect. L. Pasteur").
FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. RARE INSCRIBED COPY. "The first demonstration of the connnection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism ... the begining of bacteriology as a modern science" (Garrison-Morton). Pasteur's paper was also published almost simultaneously in Mmoires de la Socit des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille, 2nd series, 1858, and also in Comptes Rendus des sances de l'Academie des Sciences, 22, November 1857, in an abridged version. There are no known offprints of these. Dibner Heralds of Science 198 (Comptes Rendus); Garrison-Morton 2472; Grolier/Horblit 82 (Comptes Rendus); Norman 1653.
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FIRST EDITION, offprint issue. RARE INSCRIBED COPY. "The first demonstration of the connnection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism ... the begining of bacteriology as a modern science" (Garrison-Morton). Pasteur's paper was also published almost simultaneously in Mmoires de la Socit des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille, 2nd series, 1858, and also in Comptes Rendus des sances de l'Academie des Sciences, 22, November 1857, in an abridged version. There are no known offprints of these. Dibner Heralds of Science 198 (Comptes Rendus); Garrison-Morton 2472; Grolier/Horblit 82 (Comptes Rendus); Norman 1653.