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PASTEUR, L[ouis]. Etudes sur la biere, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procede pour la rendre inalterable, avec une theorie nouvelle de la fermentation.

Paris. Gauthier-Villars, 1876. First edition.
8vo. viii, 387, [1], 4pp. With a half-title, 12 engraved plates, 85 illustrations in the text, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Uncut and partially unopened in original publisher's printed orange wrappers. Extremities rubbed and creased, shipping to spine, some loss to upper panel. Offsetting.
The first edition, in original unsophisticated state of French chemist and microbiologist
Louis Pasteur's (1822-1895) influential monograph on fermentation.
£ 375.00 Antiquates Ref: 24385