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Recherches sur la dissymétrie moléculaire des produits organiques naturels. Leçons professées à la Société chimique de Paris le 20 Janvier et le 3 Février 1860 in Leçons de chimie professées en 1860
P., Hachette, 1861, un volume in 8 relié en demi-chagrin vert, dos orné de fers et caissons dorés (reliure de l'époque), 48pp.
EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Pasteur's views on molecular asymmetry are admirably summarized in "Recherches sur la dissymétrie moléculaire des produits organiques naturels" in Leçons de chimie professées en 1860 (and Published in 1861)...". (DSB X pp. 413 & 371)
Recueil de travaux - Textes choisis par PASTEUR VALLERY-RADOT
P., Cercle du livre précieux-Tchou, 1966; un volume in 8 relié en cartonnage éditeur, 438pp.
BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Réunion en un volume des communications et articles de Pasteur parus dans différentes revues (Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, Société des sciences, de l'agriculture et des arts de Lille, Revue des cours scientifiques, Bulletin de l'Académie des sciences, Congrès international de médecine...) sur divers sujets tels que : Des virus-vaccins, Les doctrines dites microbiennes, sur la rage, de la théorie des germes, des générations spontanées - etc
Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère, examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées in Leçons de chimie et de physique professées en 1861
P., Hachette, 1862, un volume in 8 relié en demi-chagrin vert (reliure de l'époque), pp. 220/254
EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Contient la première communication publique de Pasteur sur l'impossibilité de la génération spontanée (1861) : "sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère. Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées"
Pasteur. Sa vie. Son Oeuvre. Ses continuateurs. 22 gravures, 8 planches hors-texte.
P., Gedalge, sans date (1923), in 12 broché, 142 pages ; couverture très légèrement fanée.
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Pasteur. Sa vie. Son Oeuvre. Ses continuateurs. 22 gravures, 8 planches hors-texte.
P., Gedalge, sans date (1926), in 8° broché, 142 pages ; des rousseurs ; couverture illustrée (fanée).
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Correspondance, 1840-1895. Réunie et annotée par Pasteur Vallery-Radot. Tome I : Lettres de jeunesse. L'étape de la cristallographie. 1840-1857.
P., Grasset, 1946, in 8° broché, 436 pages ; 3 planches hors-texte, y compris le frontispice ; index in-fine.
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OEUVRES DE PASTEUR réunies par PASTEUR VALLERY-RADOT -- 7 VOLUMES -- COLLECTION COMPLETE DES OEUVRES DE PASTEUR -- COMPLETE SET
P., Masson, 1922/1939, 7 VOLUMES GRAND IN 4, brochés, couvertures imprimées, Tome 1 : Dissymétrie moléculaire, 1 PORTRAIT, 8pp., 480pp., figures dans le texte - Tome 2 : Fermentation et générations dites spontanées, 8pp., 664pp., figures dans le texte - Tome 3 : Etudes sur le vinaigre et sur le vin, 7pp., 519pp., figures dans le texte, 32 PLANCHES en noir et en couleurs - Tome 4 : Etudes sur la maladie des vers à soie, 1 FRONTISPICE, 8pp., (1), 761pp., 17 PLANCHES en noir et en couleurs, figures dans le texte - Tome 5 : Etudes sur la bière, 7pp., 361pp., 12 PLANCHES, figures dans le texte - Tome 6 : Maladies virulentes, virus vaccins et prophylaxie de la rage. Mélanges scientifiques et littéraires, 12pp., 906pp. - Tome 7 : Table des noms cités, table chronologique. Index analytique et synthétique de l'oeuvre de Pasteur, 6pp., 666pp.
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "A triumph of careful and diligent scholarship - Contains all of PASTEUR's books, monographs and scientific papers". (DSB) ---- "Virtually every work that PASTEUR published during his lifetime, including all of his books, monographs and scientific papers, has been reproduced in the monumental and magnificent Oeuvres de PASTEUR by PASTEUR VALLERY-RADOT edition (7 vols, Paris 1922/1939). This work also contains a number of letters, notes and manuscripts that were not published during PASTEUR's lifetime including several reports by commissions of the Academie des Sciences. Each volume has a brief introduction by PASTEUR VALLERY-RADOT, who adds helpfull editorial notes and comments throughout... In every way Oeuvres de Pasteur is a triumph of careful and diligent scholarship". (DSB X p. 411) ---- GARRISON N° 83 : "One of the founders of bactériology, Pasteur is at the same time one of the greatest figures in the history of medicine. His work on fermentation, the doctrine of spontaneous generation (which he exploded), virus diseases and preventive vaccinations, was fundamental"
Louis Pasteur
Seghers, coll. « Savants du Monde Entier » 1970 In-16 broché 16 cm sur 13,5. 221 pages. Bon état d’occasion. Manque une page de catalogue éditeur en fin.
Bon état d’occasion
"PASTEUR, (LOUIS) et (JULES) JOUBERT - A FOUNDING PAPER IN BACTERIOLOGY
Reference : 48137
(1877)
Ãtude sur la maladie charbonneuse.
(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1877. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des SÃances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 84, No 18. Pp. (895-) 970. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur & Joubert's paper: pp. 900-906.
First appearance of the paper in which Pasteur and Jouber persuasively established that Anthrax is caused by a living organism, beeing Pasteur's first paper on Anthrax and of fundamental importence for bacteriology.""By greatly increasing the number of cultures (Koch had stopped at eight) and by using a much larger volume of cultural liquid each time, Pasteur diluted an initial drop of anthrax blood to the point of virtual disappearance. Nonetheless, each successive culture retained the original virulence. In his view this result persuasively established the dependence of anthrax on a living microorganism, for no other agent could have retained its power through so drastic a dilution. Only an agent which reproduced itself in each successive cultureâalmost certainly a living organism-could be responsible for the continued virulence of the original drop of blood.""(DSB).Garrison & Morton: 5168.
"PASTEUR, (LOUIS) et (JULES) JOUBERT - THE FIRST DOCUMENTED DISCOVERY OF AN ANTIBIOTIC.
Reference : 48136
(1877)
Charbon et septicÃmie.
(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1877. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des SÃances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 85, No 3. Pp. (101-) 168. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur & Joubert's paper: pp. (101-) 115.
First appearance of one of the founding papers in the realm of antibiotics, being the discovery of ""Vibrion septique"" (Cl. septicum), the first pathogenic anaerobe to be found. ""Pasteur and Joubert were probably the first to realize the practical implications of antibiosis. They noted the antagonism between Bacillus anthracis and other bacteria cultures (in the paper offered)""(Garrison & Morton: No. 1932.1 and 2490).
MÃmoire sur la Fermentation appelÃe Lactique. (Extrait par l'auteur).
Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1857. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des SÃances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 45, No 22. Pp. (909-) 940. (Entire issue offered with titlepage and halftitle to volume 45). Pasteur's paper: pp. 913-916.
First printing of this landmark paper (published in full the year after in ""MÃmoires de la Societe des Sciences, de l'Agriculture et des arts de Lille"" and in ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"" (1858)), marking Pasteur's commencement of the study of fermentation. The offered paper was read in extract on the SÃance du Lundi 30 Novembre). Here Pasteur found that lactic acid fermentation is due to small corpuscles of yeast cells, and thus carried out by living bacteria. He hereby ended the long controversy with Liebig, who insisted that fermentation was a purrely chemical phenomenon that did not involve living organisms. THE MEMOIR IS CONSIDERED THE FOUNDING PAPER OF MICROBIOLOGY.""Pateur's researches on fermentationm led him to the discovery of the bacteria and yeasts and hence to the germ theory of disease: FROM THIS ALL MODERN BACTERIOLOGY AND IMMUNIOLOGY DEVELOPED.""(Garrison & Morton, note to 2472).""There (at the University of Lille) he became interested in the problem of France's importent wine industry. Wine and beer often went sour as they aged and millions of francs were lost as a result. Wasn't there some chemical to prevent this ? In 1856 a Lille industrialist turned to the famous young chemist and put the problem to him. Pasteur agreed to tackle the matter and turned to the microscope. He found almost at once that when the wine and beer aged properly, the liquid contains little speherical globules of yeast cells. When wine and beer turn sour, the yeast cells are elongated. Clearly there are two types of yeast, one of which produces alcohol (good) and the other lactic acid (bad). Pasteur was the first to show definitely that fermentation involves living organisms and that it is necessary to supply the correct organism to provide the correct type of fermentation.""(Isaac Asimov).Dibner No. 198. (= the offered paper in Comptes Rendus). - Garrison & Morton 2472.
Pasteur. L’Oeuvre - L’Homme - Le Savant
Paris, Librairie Vuibert 1900 In-8 broché 23,5 cm sur 15,5. VIII-160 pages. Pages non coupées. Bon état d’occasion.
4e édition Bon état d’occasion
Ensemble de brochures, coupures de presse, articles et lettre consacrés à Louis Pasteur, en Franche-comté
1822 VALLERY-RADOT René. Pasteur 1822 - 1895 (la couverture porte en plus {une heure de lecture}). Paris, Fischbacher, 1922; in-8°, broché de 66pp.; illustrations hors texte; couverture jaune imprimée en noir. On a joint des coupures de presse à la gloire de Pasteur à l'occasion de Centenaire de sa naissance et le n° 144441 du journal “ Le Petit Comtois“ du 28 décembre 1922 , pour le Centenaire de Pasteur. / Le Vivant Souvenir de Pasteur en Franche-comté. Plaquette illustrée de 18 photographies et d'un carte touristique “ Le Circuit Pasteur“. On a joint une copie dactylographie de l'acte de naissance de Louis Pasteur ( 3 exemplaires de 1page 1/2 in-4°), des coupures de presse,1 lettre autographe signée de G. Ventard professeur-président de la Société des Amis de la Maison Natale de Pasteur à Dole, du 2 aout 1934 de 2 pages in-4°. Il donne le programme de ses causeries.
On joint : L'Université de Paris. Le Centenaire de Pasteur. 34e année, n°248, janvier 193-23; grand in-8° broché, de 56pp. Illustrations photographiques. (GrFC)
Photographie de la collection Félix Potin (4 x 7,5 cm) représentant : Louis Pasteur, biologiste.
- Photographie 4 x 7, 5 cm. Notice biographique collée au dos.
Photo. Né à Dôle en 1822. Photo Pirou. Félix Potin, Début XXe. Vers 1900.
Photographie de la collection Félix Potin (4 x 7,5 cm) représentant : Louis Pasteur, biologiste.
- Photographie 4 x 7, 5 cm. Notice biographique collée au dos.
Photo. Né à Dôle en 1822. Photo Pirou. Félix Potin, Début XXe. Vers 1900.
"PASTEUR, (LOUIS). - PUTREFACTION IS CAUSED BY LIVING ORGANISMS - PMM 336 (d).
Reference : 48141
(1863)
Nouvel exemple de fermentation dÃterminÃe par des animalcules infusoires pouvant vivre sans gaz oxygÚne libre, et en dehors de tout contact avec l'air de l'atmosphÃre. (+) Examen du rÃle attribuà au gaz oxygÚne athosphÃrique dans la destruction des ...
(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1863. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des SÃances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 56, No 10, No 16 a. No 26. Pp. (409-) 451, (729-) 808 a. (1185-) 1267. (3 entire issues offered). Pasteur's papers: pp. 416-421, 734-740 a.1189-1194.
First appearance of these importent papers in which Pasteur proved and concluded that putrefaction was, like fermentation caused by living organisms and they are, therefore, analogous processes, for both involve the decomposition of substatances of organisms living in the absence of air. He also here introduced the process of ""PASTEURIZATION"". The last paper is listed as PMM 336 (d).In these papers ""he discovered other organisms that live without air and established the idea of aerobic and anaerobic life and first used these names (1863). Aerobes were only able to live in presence of free oxygen, whereas anaerobic or zymics, as he called them, grew in the absence of oxygen.""(Bullocdh ""The History of Bacteriology"", p. 61).
Discours de réception de M. Louis PASTEUR. Réponse de M. Ernest RENAN
P., Calmann Levy, 1882; un volume in 8, broché, couverture imprimée, 54pp.
EDITION ORIGINALE du discours prononcé par PASTEUR lors de sa réception à l'Académie et de la réponse faite par E. RENAN ---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- "Of Pasteur's nonscientific writings the most interesting are ... Discours de réception à l'Académie Française (Paris 1882)". (DSB X p. 414)
Animalcules infusoires vivant sans gaz oxygÚne libre et dÃterminant des fermentations.
(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1861. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des SÃances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 52, No 8. Pp. (321-) 368. (Entire issues offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 344-347. Minor marginal brownspots.
First printing of a milestone paper in microbiology, being the paper in which Pasteur disclosed his discovery of organisms that lived without oxygen. Two years later he named them anaerobic or zymics, contrasting to aerobic which only lived in the presence of free oxygen.""In 1861 he turned his attention to the butyric fermentation and made another importent discovery, viz. that this fermentation proceeds in the absence of oxygen. In the fermented material he found cylindrical rods, which he showed were the cause of the fermentation. Following the nomenclature and ideas of the time he regarded them as animal in character and named them Vibrio..."" (Bullock ""The History of Bacteriology"", p. 61).
"PASTEUR, (LOUIS). - THE DOWNFALL OF THE THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION - PMM 336 (b)
Reference : 48140
(1860)
ExpÃriences relatives aux gÃnÃrations dites spontanÃes. (+) De l'origine des ferments. Nouvelles expÃriences relatives aux gÃnÃrations dites spontanÃes. (+) Nouvelles expÃriences relatives aux gÃnÃrations dites spontanÃes. (+) Suite à une prÃcÃdente c...
(Paris, Mallet-Bachelier), 1860. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des SÃances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 50, No 6 a. No 19, Tome 51, No 10 a. No 19. (4 entire issues offered). Pasteur's papers: pp. 303-307, 849-854 (tome 50), pp. 348-352, 675-678 (tome 51).
First appearance of the suite of the 4 groundbreaking papers marking the downfall of the theory of spontaneous generation, and all of Pasteur's later work in this field can be seen as an extension, elaboration, and defence of the principles and methods set forth here. It is from these conclusions all modern bacteriology and immunology have developed. Pasteur was awarded the Zecker Price 1861 for these discoveries. ""Pasteur's publications on the subject of spontaneous generation consists chiefly of communications to the Academy of Sciences in Paris and published in abstracts in the Comptes rendus... (the paper offered)... In these communication he dealt with the collection and demonstration of erms in the air, the origin of ferments, the distribution of germs in nature, and many other questions. These reports were finally expanded in his famous ""Memoire sur les corpuscules organisÃs qui existent dans l'atmosphere. Examen de la doctrine de gÃnerations spontanÃes"", which was published in 1861. (Bullocdh ""The History of Bacteriology"", p. 96).Printing and the Mind of Man No, 336 (b) - Garrison & Morton No. 2474.
"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - THE FINAL BLOW TO THE THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
Reference : 47021
(1862)
MÃmoire sur Les Corpuscules organisÃs qui existent dans L'AtmosphÚre. Examen de la Doctrine des GÃnÃrations spontanÃes.
Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1862. 8vo. Uncut in later marbled wrappers. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome LXIV. 512 pp. and 5 plates (4 folding). (The entire volume offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 5-110 and 2 folded plates. A few scattred brownspots.
This landmark paper in which Pasteur once and for all disproves the doctrine of spontaneous generation, in the form in which it had been upheld through the nineteenth century, and he suggest that infection is spread by germs. He demonstrates that fermentation is connected with living organisms and that when these were excluded spontaneous generation does not occur.The memoir was also published in Ann. d. sc. naturelles the year before in a more condenced form.""Pasteur's publications on the subject of spontaneous generation consist chiefly of communications to the Academy of Sciences of Paris and published in abstracts in the ""Comptes rendus de l'Acad. des Sciences"" of 1860 and 1861. In these communications he dealt with the collection and demonstration of germs in the air, the origin of ferments, the distribution of germs in nature, and many other questions. These reports were finally expanded in his famous MÃmoire sur les Corpuscules organisÃs qui existent..."" (the paper offered). It was of this research that Tyndall wrote: 'Clearness, strenght and caution with consummate experimental skill for their minister were rarely more strikingly displayed than in this imperishable essay.' It was, indeed, the inauguration of a new eÃ¥poch in bacteriology and should be studied by all who desire a schooling in the art of rigorous experimentation.""(Bulloch ""The History of Bacteriology"", p. 96).""In may 1861, at a meeting of the Societe Chimique de Paris, Pasteur presented the major results of his work on spontaneous generation in a lecture later expanded into his prize-winning memoir (the paper offered). Although this memoir is essentially a restatement of his earlier papers on the topic, it is richer in etail and contains some new material. The appearance under the microscope of atmospheric dust and of the organisms found in infusions received considerable attention, as did the role of contaminated mercury as a source error in the experiments of Pouchet and others...""(DSB X, p. 371).Sparrow, Milestones of Science, p. 42, plate 183.
"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - THE PRINCIPLE OF ENANTIOSELECTIVITY ANNOUNCED.
Reference : 53132
(1858)
MÃmoire sur la fermentation de l'acide tartrique.
(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1858. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des SÃances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 46, No 13. Pp. (603-) 666. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's: pp. 615-618. Clean and fine.
First printing of an importent paper in biochemistry announcing the discovery of enantioselectivity. Pasteur's milestone discovery of biological enantioselectivity began the process that in the long run established the fundamental importance of molecular chirality in biology.""In 1858 he made an importent discovery in connexion with the fermentation of tartaric acid. he observed, if incompletely, the characters of the organisms which causes the fermentation in ammonium tartrate, and transferring a trace of the organism to a solution of racemate of ammonia, which of course is optically inactive, he found that the fermenting solution gradually acquired a left rotatory power until finally the right-handed salt disappeared and laevotartaric acid was left untouched. The organism which achieced this feat was probably a PENICILLIM (1860)."" (Bulloch, The History of Bacteriology, p. 60).
Observations sur la maladie des vers à soie.
(Paris: Gauthier-Villars), 1865. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences"", Vol 61, No 13. Pp. (493-) 535. (Entire issue offered). Pasteur's paper: pp. 506-512.
First printing of Pasteur's first report on the silkworm disease. Between 1855 and 1865 a widespread epidemic among silk worms called pebrine alarmed the south of France, so much so that finally, in 1865, it drew national attention. In June 1865 the government sent Pasteur down to investigate the disease, and the first report was already finished by the 25th of September, the paper offered. Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1865 B. - Bunch 1865, Biology.
PASTEUR (L.) - WURTZ - BERTHELOT - DUMAS - BECQEREL - CAHOURS - SAINT-CLAIRE DEVILLE - BARRAL... -- SOCIETE CHIMIQUE DE PARIS
Reference : 40080
Leçons de chimie professées à la Société chimique de Paris par MM. PASTEUR, CAHOURS, WURTZ, BERTHELOT, SAINTE-CLAIRE DEVILLE, BARRAL et DUMAS de 1860 à 1869 -- ENSEMBLE COMPLET (7 VOLUMES) DES LECONS DONNEES A LA SOCIETE CHIMIQUE DE PARIS -- CONTIENT : PASTEUR (L.). Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère. Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées - PASTEUR (L.). Recherches sur la dissymétrie moléculaire des produits organiques naturels - BERTHELOT (M.). De la synthèse en chimie organique - DUMAS (M.). Pièces historiques relatives à Lavoisier et à N. Le Blanc - BECQUEREL (E.). Effets lumineux qui résultent de l'action de la lumière sur les corps - BERTHELOT (M.). Sur les principes sucrés. Sur l'isomérie - WURTZ (A.). Sur quelques points de philosophie chimique (équivalents, poids atomiques et poids moléculaires) - Théorie des types et atomicité - Alliance de la chimie minérale et de la chimie organique - SAINTE-CLAIRE DEVILLE (H.). Sur la dissociation - FRIEDEL (C.). Sur les composés organiques du silicium. etc
P., Hachette, 1861/1870, 7 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en demi-basane rouge, dos ornés de filets dorés pour les tomes 1, 2 et 4 à 7, tome 3 relié en demi-chagrin vert, dos orné de caissons dorés (reliures de l'époque), T.1 (leçons professées en1860) : (2), 8pp., 306pp., (1), T.2 (leçons professées en 1861) : (2), 5pp., 254pp., (1), 1 planche dépliante, T.3 (leçons professées en 1862) : (2), 332pp., T.4 (leçons professées en 1863) : (2), 314pp., T.5 (leçons professées en 1864/1865) : (2), 458pp., 1 planche dépliante, T.6 (leçons professées en 1866/1867) : (2), 190pp., (1), T.7 (leçons professées en 1868/1869) : (2), 240pp.
---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- ENSEMBLE COMPLET (7 VOLUMES) des leçons professées à la Société chimique de Paris par PASTEUR, WURTZ, BERTHELOT, BECQUEREL, SAINTE-CLAIRE DEVILLE, BARRAL et DUMAS reliés en demi-basane rouge à l'exception du tome 3 qui est relié en demi-chagrin vert ---- "The Société chimique de Paris was founded in 1857 by some of the younger chemists in Paris. Dumas was president in 1859 and Wurtz secretary. This society became the centre of interest in the atomic theory and organic chemistry in France...". (Partington IV p. 478) ---- Cette série est inaugurée par une conférence de PASTEUR intitulée : "RECHERCHES SUR LA DISSYMETRIE MOLECULAIRE DES PRODUITS ORGANIQUES NATURELS". L'on sait que PASTEUR fera de cette découverte un des caractères fondamentaux de la vie. L'année 1861 CONTIENT LA PREMIERE COMMUNICATION PUBLIQUE DE PASTEUR SUR L'IMPOSSIBILITE DE LA GENERATION SPONTANEE : "SURLES CORPUSCULES ORGANISES QUI EXISTENT DANS L'ATMOSPHERE. EXAMEN DE LA DOCTRINE DES GENERATIONS SPONTANEES" ---- "In May 1861, at a meeting of the Société chimique de Paris, PASTEUR presented the major results of his work on spontaneous generation... His views on molecular asymmetry and optical activity, as they stood at the end of his active research on the problem, are admirably summarized in "Recherches sur la dissymétrie moléculaire des produits organiques naturels" in Leçons de chimie professées en 1860 (Paris 1861)...". (DSB X pp. 413 & 371). "WURTZ in Leçons de chimie professées en 1863 (1864) explains the foundation of the new atomic weights (pp. 39/119)". (Partington IV p. 478)
MÃmoire sur la Fermentation appelÃe Lactique. - [THE BEGINNING OF BACTERIOLOGY AS A MODERN SCIENCE]
Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, 1858. Large8vo. Unopened and uncut in the original printed wrappers. Ex-libris [Meyer Friedman] pasted on to verso of front wrapper. In pristine, near mint condition. 15 pp. Housed in a half calf clamshell box with gilt lettering to spine.
First printing, in the extremely scarce off-print (separately paginated), of this landmark paper which founded scientific bacteriology, immunology and microbiology in general. The work constitutes ""[t]he first demonstration of the connection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific microorganism ... the beginning of bacteriology as a modern science"" (Garrison & Morton). ""In this epochal paper [Pasteur] first published his research on lactic fermentatiom [...] A great milestone in biochemistry"" (Neville, vol. II, p. 274).Until the publication of the present paper, fermentation had been described in all the textbooks as a chemical process, but Pasteur had now shown it to be caused, in the case of lactic acid fermentation, by a living organism. Skeptical also of the chemical theory of alcoholic fermentation, he went on to disprove the theory by demonstrating that yeast is the living agent of the process. Furthermore, he established that specific microorganisms are responsible for specific biological processes and, by inference, that specific germs may be the agents of specific diseases. Pasteur thus laid the foundation for the germ theory of disease.This paper ""contains most of the central theoretical and methodological features of his biological theory of fermentation, in particular the concept of fermentation as a product of the growth of yeast, the idea that air is source of microscopic yeasts and other micro-organisms, and the notion of specificity, in which each fermentation could be traced to a specific micro-organism. Pasteur was able to isolate, observe and propagate the yeast responsible for lactic fermentation, and to demonstrate that its activity was dependent on its environment. Pasteur's concept of fermentation as a biological process challenged the chemical theory of fermentation put forth by Liebig, which Pasteur was able to disprove with his experiments on alcoholic and acetic fermentation."" (Norman 1653).The consequences of Pasteur's discovery was wide reaching and did not only revolutionize the field of medicine: ""French winemakers, troubled by the souring of wine, especially in exporting, presented their problem to Pasteur. He found that wine diseases could be controlled by heating the liquid for a definite time at a certain temperature."" (Milestones of Science). He also helped the silk industry by pointing out a silkworn decease" the French beer brewers were helped by Pasteur's knowledge on fermentation in their competition with the German brewers.The paper was first published in Annales de Chimie et de Physique, Third Series, Vol. 52. Almost simultaneously in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique and the MÃmoires de la Società des Sciences, De l'Agriculture et des Arts de Lille and Comptes Rendus de l'AcadÃmie des Sciences.Norman 1653 Garrison-Morton 2472 Dibner, Heralds of Science, 198 One Hundred Books Famous in Science 82 (none of them referring to the offprint, merely the periodical-issues).
Un médecin sans diplome : PASTEUR.
1923 Paris, Tolra, 1923, grand in 8° broché, 215 pages ; illustrations ; couverture rempliée décorée ; quelques rousseurs ; petits manques et menus frottis à la couverture.
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