First Separate Edition
Mémoire sur les Corpuscules Organisés. qui existent dans l'atmosphère : examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées. Extrait des Annales de chimie et de physique, 3e série, t. LXIV.
Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1862.
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PASTEUR, Louis. Mémoire sur les Corpuscules Organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère, examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées. Extrait des Annales de chimie et de physique, 3e série, t. LXIV. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1862.
First separate edition. Octavo (9 x 5 1/2 inches; 226 x 140 mm). [4, blank], [1]-110 pp. Complete with two folding plates by Dulos.
Original blue printed wrappers, rebacked to style. Wrappers printed in black. Edges uncut. Some minor soiling and rubbing to wrappers. A small closed tear to top margin of title-page, not affecting text. A library "Withdrawn" stamp to blank verso o title-page. An additional library stamp to the bottom margin of the final page of text. Internally very clean. Overall a very good copy. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell with printed paper spine label.
"The longest and most important of Pasteur's papers on spontaneous generation, describing the series of classic experiments with bent-necked and sealed flasks by which he proved conclusively that fermentation and putrefaction are not the products of spontaneous generation, but result from contamination by airborne micro-organisms. Pasteur's experiments also mark the beginning of microbiology since, by showing how to sterilize a liquid and keep it sterile, he opened up the possibility of culturing and studying a single micro-organism in the absence of any others. Pasteur's paper was first printed in Vol. 16 of the Annales des sciences naturelles, Zoologie, 4th series (1861), but no offprint was made from this journal printing. The present offprint, printed in a small edition, was made from the Annales de chimie et de physique, 3rd series (1862), in which Pasteur's paper was reprinted a few months after its first appearance." (Norman 1654)
PMM 336c. Norman 1654.
HBS 69486.
$6,500.
Price: $6,500.00
Item #69486