PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95). Etudes sur le Vin, Paris, 1866, large 8vo, 32 lithographed plates printed in colours, original wrappers, slipcase. FIRST EDITION.

PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95).  Études sur le Vin, Ses Maladies causes qui les Provoquent Procédés Nouveaux pour le Conserver et pour le Vieillir. Paris: "Imprimé par Autorisation de son Exec. le Garde des Sceaux. A L'Imprimerie Impériale," 1866. Large 8vo (240 x 160mm). Half title, 32 lithographed plates printed in colours, illustrations (some light spotting and staining). Original grey printed wrappers with small woodcut armorial device on upper wrapper, uncut (lightly stained, repair with adhesive tape to head of backstrip and corner of lower wrapper), later buckram slipcase. Provenance: From the Collection of Professor Jonathan Brostoff, D.M., D.Sc., FRCP, FRCPath (1934-2020); A. [?]Méyret (old signature on upper wrapper and front free endpaper); "Agriculture 3070" (old [?]library note on title and corresponding label at head of backstrip), modern buckram slipcase. FIRST EDITION of this work in which the author establishes the role of atmospheric oxygen in causing the 'diseases' of wine which, along with various other works (cf. PMM 336), led the author to the discovery of bacteria from which he went on to develop the germ theory of disease. Bulloch p.61; Duveen p.260; Garrison & Martin 2479; Norman 1655; Sparrow Milestones of Science 160.