Mémoire sur la Fermentation Alcoolique [with] Examen Critique d'un Écrit Posthume de Claude Bernard sur la Fermentation

Pasteur, Louis; Bernard, Claude

Paris: Mallet-Bachelier, 1860.

First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition. Item #CAT000677
ISBN: NoISBN

Leather backed marbled boards, leather dry, chipped, front hinge cracked, but binding still sound otherwise. Extracted from the longer work published the same year in Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Bound with Pasteur's work critiquing Bernard's work published in 1879. 106pp; xxiv, 156pp and two plates.

The first work is Pastuer's assertion, following his work on lactic acid published in 1857, that fermentation is not decomposition or spontaneous generation, but the work of living organisms. Bernard criticized elements of Pasteur's work and his work and Pasteur's answer are published in the joined volume. Size: 1860. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Science & Technology. Inventory No: CAT000677.

Price: $1,200.00