Rene Vallery-Radot — La Vie de Pasteur

Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1907. Leather. A smartly bound eleventh edition of this biography of Louis Pasteur by his son-in-law, in the original French. French. Eleventh edition. With a portrait frontispiece. The biography of Louis Pasteur, a French scientist, chemist and physicist by training. A pioneer of microbiology, he achieved great notoriety during his lifetime for developing a vaccine against rabies. Written by his son-in-law, Rene Vallery-Radot, a French writer. Bound in quarter crushed morocco with marbled boards and the original paper wraps bound in. Externally, very smart with light rubbing to the extremities and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .