Author's presentation copy

PASTEUR, Louis.

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.

1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Item #003915

8vo (229 x 148 mm). viii, 387 [1] pp. including half-title, 12 engraved plates protected by tissue paper, 85 illustrations in text. Contemporary brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands, gilt-lettered and gilt-tooled in compartments, marbled edges and endpapers (exceptionally well preserved binding). Text and plates crisp and bright throughout with just a little minor browning and pale spotting to first and final few pages. Provenance: J. J. Simon, Arbois, 1912 (engraved bookplate to front pastedown), inscribed and signed by Louis Pasteur on half-title "A monsieur Radou / hommage de l'authéur / L. Pasteur". ----

Sparrow 158; Garrison-Morton 2485; Heirs of Hippocrates 1018; Norman 1658; Cushing P-139; Duveen 461. Osler 1550. Thornton & Tully, p. 184. Waller 10966; Bulloch, History of bacteriology p. 61f. - FIRST EDITION of Pasteur's important study of fermentation. Pasteur discovered that contaminated beer was caused by microorganisms in the air and not spontaneously generated as previously believed. He perfected a method of preparing pure yeast, acknowledging that a small quantity of oxygen was important for brewing. - Visit our website to see more images!

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