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260 - Fermentation & Bacteriology.- Pasteur (Louis) "Mémoire sur la Fermentation appelée lactique" [&] "M_x001D_émoire sur la fermentation alcoolique", first editions, in Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires de l'Academie des Sciences, vol.45, pp.913-916 and pp.1032-1036, foxing, bookplates, ex-library copy with ink-stamps, library half-calf, gilt spines with red morocco and paper labels to spines, joints split, rubbed, 4to, Paris, 1857; and vol.46, 47, and 48 of the same journal with Pasteur's fundamental papers, and 2 vol. of Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 4to & 8vo (6)
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Fermentation & Bacteriology.- Pasteur (Louis) "Mémoire sur la Fermentation appelée lactique" [&] "M_x001D_émoire sur la fermentation alcoolique", first editions, in Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires de l'Academie des Sciences, vol.45, pp.913-916 and pp.1032-1036, foxing, bookplates, ex-library copy with ink-stamps, library half-calf, gilt spines with red morocco and paper labels to spines, joints split, rubbed, 4to, Paris, 1857; and vol.46, 47, and 48 of the same journal with Pasteur's fundamental papers, and 2 vol. of Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 4to & 8vo (6) *** First edition of these two important papers by Pasteur. The first work reports the 'first demonstration of the connection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism. This paper is often considered the beginning of bacteriology as a modern science' (G&M). With the other volumes, there is a collection of fundamental papers on fermentation, including: "Mémoire sur la Fermentation appelée lactique" and "M_x001D_émoire sur la fermentation alcoolique" in Annales de Chimie et de Physique "Nouvelles recherches sur la fermentation alocoolique" "Nouveaux faits concernant l'histoire de la fermentation alcoolique" "Nouveaux faits relatifs à la fermentation alcoolique, cellulose et matières grasses de la levure constituées aux dépens du sucre"
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