APPERT, Nicholas (also called François or Charles) (1750-1841). L'Art de Conserver pendant plusieurs années toutes les substances animales et végétales, Paris: Patris et Cie, 1810, 8°, FIRST EDITION, verso of half title signed by Appert as a caution against piracies, folding engraved plate showing the author's laborartory apparatus (plate slightly soiled at lower margin, text spotted), recent blue half morocco gilt. [Bitting p. 13; GM 2467.1; Norman 59: "Appert developed the first workable process for canning foods, laying the foundation of the food-processing industry"; Vicaire 34; Wellcome II, p. 51]

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APPERT, Nicholas (also called François or Charles) (1750-1841). L'Art de Conserver pendant plusieurs années toutes les substances animales et végétales, Paris: Patris et Cie, 1810, 8°, FIRST EDITION, verso of half title signed by Appert as a caution against piracies, folding engraved plate showing the author's laborartory apparatus (plate slightly soiled at lower margin, text spotted), recent blue half morocco gilt. [Bitting p. 13; GM 2467.1; Norman 59: "Appert developed the first workable process for canning foods, laying the foundation of the food-processing industry"; Vicaire 34; Wellcome II, p. 51]

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GM: "In 1795 Appert began developing the [canning] process under Napoleon's auspices as a way to maintain food on military expeditions. For strategic reasons he was not allowed to publish the secret method until 1810. Appert's method was strictly empirical. Pasteur eventually discovered a scientific explanation for the process and refined its operation."