‎"PASTEUR, LOUIS. - RECHEARCES ON MOLECULAR ASSYMETRY.‎
‎Recherches sur la Propriétés spécifique des deux Acides qui composent L'Acide Racémique.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, Imprimerie de Bachelier, 1850. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Very light wear along edges. Small stamps on verso of titlepage and on verso of plate. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome XXVIII. 504 pp. a. 5 plates. (The entire volume offered). Pasteur's papers: pp. 56-99. Some scattered brownspots.‎

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‎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.‎