Brochures de L. Pasteur offertes au Dr Déclat, Paris, 1848-1854, red cloth lettered in gilt

PASTEUR, LOUIS

A collection of articles in a presentation binding to Dr Déclat, comprising:

Recherches sur les relations qui peuvent exister entre la forme crystalline, la composition chimique et le sens de la polarisation rotatoire (Note sur la cristallisation du soufre). [Paris, 1848], 19pp., folding plate

Recherches sur les propriétés spécifiques des deux acides qui composent l'acide racémique. [Paris, 1850], 44pp., folding plate

Mémoire sur les acides aspartique et malique. [Paris, 1851], 36pp., folding plate

Sur le dimorphisme dans les substances actives. Tétartoédrie. [Paris, 1854], 11pp., folding plate

4 works in one volume, 8vo (215 x 126mm.), with blue paper dividers at the start of each article containing a manuscript title, red pebbled cloth lettered in gilt, occasional light foxing

A RARE COLLECTION of Pasteur's early articles on crystallography and structural chemistry, offprints from the Annales de chimie et de physique. It was bound for Gilbert Déclat (1827-1896), a physician specialising in the application of antiseptic agents such as carbolic acid in preventing infections (he wrote several treatises on the subject), with whom Pasteur corresponded in the 1860s and 1870s.

The second article, on racemic acid, won Pasteur a prize from the Société de Pharmacie de Paris.

LITERATURE:

2nd work: Duveen p.460 ("An important paper, one of a series in the classical enunciation by Pasteur of the existence of enantiomorphs and the methods which could be applied to resolve them")

PROVENANCE:

Dr Gilbert Déclat, presentation binding