Fermentation & Bacteriology.- Pasteur (Louis) "Mémoire sur la Fermentation appelée lactique" [&] "Mémoire sur la fermentation alcoolique", first editions, in Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires de l'Academi

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Fermentation & Bacteriology.- Pasteur (Louis) "Mémoire sur la Fermentation appelée lactique" [&] "Mémoire 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 "Mémoire 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 la fermentation alcoolique, cellulose et mati res grasses de la levure constituées aux dépens du sucre"

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