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PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). Études sur la Bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable, avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876.
8o (225 x 145 mm). 12 lithographic plates, wood-engraved text illustrations. (Occasional foxing.) Modern blue half morocco, marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION. Pasteur's brewing process eliminated the micro-organisms responsible for many diseases. The work includes a summary of his discoveries about fermentation made over the previous decade. "Études sur la bière not only discussed the practical problems of brewing but also recapitulated the series of debates over fermentation in which Pasteur had been embroiled since the publication of Études sur le vin" (Norman). Cushing P139; Garrison-Morton-Norman 2485; Heirs of Hippocrates 1898; Osler 1550; Norman 1658.
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FIRST EDITION. Pasteur's brewing process eliminated the micro-organisms responsible for many diseases. The work includes a summary of his discoveries about fermentation made over the previous decade. "Études sur la bière not only discussed the practical problems of brewing but also recapitulated the series of debates over fermentation in which Pasteur had been embroiled since the publication of Études sur le vin" (Norman). Cushing P139; Garrison-Morton-Norman 2485; Heirs of Hippocrates 1898; Osler 1550; Norman 1658.