PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95). Mémoire sur la Fermentation Appelée Lactique [Pp. 404-18 in:] Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Troisième Série. Tome LII. Paris: 1858, 8vo, contemporary calf-backed boards. FIRST (COMPLETE) EDITION.

PASTEUR, Louis (1822-95).  Mémoire sur la Fermentation Appelée Lactique ... Lu  l' Academie des Sciences dans la séance du 30 novembre 1857. [Pages 404-18 contained in:]  Annales de Chimie et de Physique ... Troisime Série. - Tome LII. Paris: Victor Masson, Libraire, 1858. 8vo (220 x 135mm). Half title, folding engraved plate at the end [relating to another article] (occasional mainly light spotting and staining). Contemporary calf backed textured cloth boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers (lightly rubbed). Provenance: From the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. A heavily-abridged 4-page version of this paper appeared in the Comptes Rendus de l' Academie de Sciences (Paris, 1857). FIRST (COMPLETE) EDITION of the "first demonstration of the connection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism. This paper is often considered the beginning of bacteriology as a modern science" (Garrison-Morton). Brock pp. 27-30: "[Pasteur's paper] can truly be regarded as the beginning of scientific microbiology, indeed as one of the most important landmarks of biochemical and biological sciences"; Garrison-Morton 2472; Dibner Heralds of Science 198 (citing the abridged version); Horblit One Hundred Books Famous in Science 82 (also citing the abridged version): "The birth of bacteriology ..."; Norman 1653 (citing an offprint).