Books by PASTEUR LOUIS;

Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1879.. xxiv,156pp. Large octavo. Original printed wrappers. Illustrations and two engraved plates by Felizat. Disbound, with foxing and moderate chipping to wrappers at spine and fore-edge, some foxing and spotting (with shallow discoloration in upper margin of a few leaves), early ownership signature on title; a modest, sound copy. Bookplate inside upper wrapper. First edition. "In the 1860s and 1870s Pasteur debated his controversial theory of fermentation with Justus Liebig ... more information