PASTEUR, Louis - Lot 118

PASTEUR, Louis Louis Pasteur Cinquantaine de l'Inauguration de l'Institut Pasteur, 1888-1938. Illustrated commemorative booklet published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the inauguration of the Institut Pasteur. Large in-4, printed cover with portrait of Pasteur. A charming occasional publication featuring a variety of iconographic reminiscences of Louis Pasteur's youth and life: photographic reproductions of personal documents, a view of his house in Arbois, an evocation of the room where he died on September 28, 1895, and a portrait of M. et Mlle Roch d'Arbois drawn by Pasteur in his youth. Published by Produits F. Hoffmann-La Roche et Cie to mark the 1938 celebrations, this booklet testifies to the symbolic importance acquired by the figure of Pasteur in French scientific history and in the medical memory of the interwar period. A fine copy, despite slight signs of use on the cover.