PASTEUR, LOUIS. - RECHEARCES ON MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY & OPTICAL ACTIVITY.

Mémoire sur les acides aspartique et malique.

Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1848. Without wrappers. In "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 3me Series - Tome 34, January-issue. With titlepage to vol. 34. 128 pp. (entire January-issue). Pasteur's paper pp. 30-64, 1 litographed plate. Some scattered brownspots and browning.

First appearance of an importent paper in which Pasteur extended his work on the optical activity and the molecular assymetry. This paper is among Pasteurs most importent among the handfull of his early papers on the subject.

Order-nr.: 44736