Mémoire sur les acides aspartique et malique.

8vo: 36 pp. (somewhat browned, some marg. dampstaining).

Mod. quarter vellum signed D'Hervé, marbled paper on covers, flat spine, brown leather title label.

Rare offprint, not to be confused with the publication in "Annales de Chimie et de Phys., 3e série, t. XXXIV", which is much more common. Important paper by Pasteur on molecular asymmetry and one in the series on tartaric and paratartaric acid in which he would establish the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals and racemization. Ill. with one fold. pl.
Ref. Wellcome Library (online). - Osler 1537. - Cp. Hommage à la mémoire de Louis Pasteur, n. 17.