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Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
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PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895). Études sur la Bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procede pour la rendre inalterable, avec une theorie nouvelle de la fermentation. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876.
8vo. 12 lithographed plates; numerous in-text illustrations. ORIGINAL WRAPPERS (some minor chipping or spotting, a few repairs to spine, upper wrapper detaching); quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Colonel Broza? (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Pasteur on half-title: "Au Colonel Broza? son compatriot et son ami. L Pasteur." Études sur la Bière discussed the practical problems of brewing and "recapitulated the series of debates over fermentation in which Pasteur had been embroiled since the publication of Études sur la Vin. Pasteur sought to prove that the 'diseases' of beer are caused by foreign micro-organisms and proposed a reformed brewing process to eliminate them" (Norman 1658). Garrison-Morton 2485; Heirs of Hippocrates 1898.
Selections from the Property of Dr. Eugene Vigil, Antiquariat Botanicum