Live auction - Lot 1136
[Biology - Bacteriology]
Études sur la bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable, avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation.
PASTEUR, Louis
Hammer price: €
320
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1876
8vo; 12 pl. (some foxing, ms. annot. on pl. 1).
Contemp. quarter brown shagreen, gilt orn. spine with raised bands (rubbed, head with def.).
First edition of this famous study on fermentation, yeast and beer making. Ill. with 12 lithographic plates, each protected by a tissue guard, and 85 woodcuts in-text. Our copy has an advertisement for Pasteur's "Études sur la maladie des vers a soie" (1870) on final 4 pages.
Ref. Duveen 461. - Hommage à la mémoire de Louis Pasteur, 216