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Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère: Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées (1861) by PASTEUR, LOUIS

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Title: Sur les corpuscules organisés qui existent dans l'atmosphère: Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées (1861)
Author: PASTEUR, LOUIS
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: Ch. Lahure et Cie, 1862. first edition offprint. original wrappers. Very Good. PRESENTATION AND ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE RARE AUTHOR'S OFFPRINT OF PASTEUR'S FAMOUS LECTURE DISCREDITING THE THEORY OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH NOTES TO FELLOW SCIENTIST JOHN TYNDALL. Spontaneous generation - the theory that living organisms are routinely created from inanimate matter - goes back to ancient times. Although the theory had been cast into doubt by the observations and experimental work of Redi, Spallanzani, and others in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it proved remarkably hard to kill, and still had many distinguished adherents in the early nineteenth century. In part its persistence was due to the rise of microscopy, which had revealed a host of previously unknown organisms, with no apparent origin, in soil, pond water, and other natural environments. Where had these organisms come from, if they had not been spontaneously generated? In part it was due to bona fide disputes over experimental techniques, with opponents of the theory arguing that demonstrations of the spontaneous generation of microorganisms in supposedly sterile nutrient media were merely the result of contamination or inadequate sterilization; and proponents of the theory arguing that the failure of microorganisms to grow in sterilized nutrient media in sealed flasks was the result either of damage to some vital ingredient in the medium resulting from the heat-sterilization process, or of the fact that the medium did not have access to oxygen or to some other factor in the air that was necessary to support spontaneous generation. See generally John Farley, The Spontaneous Generation Controversy from Descartes to Oparin (Johns Hopkins 1977). That is where matters rested when "[Felix] Pouchet launched his attempt to establish the doctrine of spontaneous generation on the basis of irrefutable experiments. Pouchet, a respected naturalist from Rouen and a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences, published in 1859 his long and controversial [Héterogenie ou traité de la génération spontanée], which created a sensation in France and probably stimulated the Académie des Sciences to institute the Alhumbert Prize in 1860 for the best 'attempt, by well conducted experiments, to through new light on the question of so-called spontaneous generations.'" Dictionary of Scientific Biography ("DSB"). Pasteur won the prize with the experimental work described in his lecture, which "provided the final experimental coup de grâce" to spontaneous generation, at least in France, although "the debate ... dragged on for another twenty years in Britain and Germany ...." (Farley, op. cit.). Pasteur had been led to his interest in spontaneous generation by his prior work on fermentation. Having determined that fermentation was caused by the action of living organisms, he moved on to wondering where those organisms came from - whether they were spontaneously generated or were the descendants of parent-organisms already present in, or introduced from the air into, the substance being fermented. Beginning in 1859, he conducted a series of experiments designed to eliminate the methodological quibbles that had arisen over earlier results, and to resolve the spontaneous generation question once and for all. Among these were the famous experiments demonstrating that no microorganisms would grow in sterilized nutrient media held in open, swan-necked flasks. (The flasks were open to ensure that the medium had access to air; the narrow, curved swan necks trapped dust particles in the air that might introduce new microorganisms into the medium.) In an ingenious coda to the experiment that demonstrated that the medium had not been damaged by sterilization, he found that "if one of the curved necks were detached from a hitherto sterile flask and placed upright in it, vegetative growths appeared in a day or two." ( DSB). Pasteur's results were discussed in a lecture he delivered in 1861 to the Société chimique de Paris. The lecture was originally published in the 1861 volume of the Société's annual publication "Leçons de chimie et de physique," together with a number of other lectures delivered that year. The item offered here is an author's offprint from the Leçons volume, containing only the Pasteur lecture, with the same page count and layout of lines on each page as in the Leçons volume, but with the pages renumbered from 1-36. (The lecture proper was 34 pages long and printed on pages 3-36 of the offprint; page numbers 1 and 2 were assigned to the title page and its verso.) The experiments were also described in a series of lectures delivered before the Académie des Sciences, and an expanded description was incorporated into Pasteur's famous paper "Mémoire sur les Corpuscules Organisés qui existent dans l'Atmosphère" (PMM 336(c)), which was published in Annales des sciences naturelles, and subsequently in Annales de chimie et de physique. An important presentation and association copy:  This copy of the offprint includes lengthy autograph notes added by Pasteur in September 1871 that were addressed to John Tyndall, an eminent Victorian-era scientist who went on to perform important research of his own on the spontaneous generation question. (On Tyndall's life and achievements, see generally Roland Jackson, "The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, & Public Intellectual" (Oxford 2018).) Pasteur's autograph notations on the offprint include a lengthy note in French on the front wrapper (signed "L. Pasteur"), one on page 35 (initialed "L.P."), and a marginal correction on page 3 (i.e., the first page of the lecture proper). --On page 3 of the offprint as originally printed, Pasteur noted that he did not claim to be able to establish that spontaneous generation never occurs, since he cannot prove a negative. Instead, he claimed to be able to show rigorously that in all cases where spontaneous generation was thought to have been shown, the observer had been the victim or illusions or errors that he did not notice or was unable to avoid. Pasteur's marginal note changed the description of the proposition that he did not claim to prove, from the spontaneous generation "never exists," to spontaneous generation "does not exist and never will exist." --The note on the front wrapper calls Tyndall's attention to the note on page 35, informs him that the index of the journal Comptes-rendus de l'Académie des Sciences for the period 1861-65 had just been published, offers to obtain it for him, and states that Tyndall will find the index useful for learning about Pasteur's work in this area. The note is dated September 25, 1871. --Next to a passage on the bottom of page 35 that identifies various questions that "deserve all the attention of naturalists," Pasteur notes that he answered these questions in his later research, and provides a citation to a later paper by Pasteur in the Comptes Rendus. On John Tyndall:   Tyndall was an accomplished scientist with wide-ranging interests. "[H]is work on diamagnetism, involving the effects of compression on hundreds of crystalline substances (1851-1856), led to the study of Penrhyn slate and the problem of "slaty cleavage" (1854-1856). Generalizing from the effects of pressure on slate led him to the study of glacial movement (1856-1859); in turn, glaciers fostered a passion for mountaineering and a fascination for what was to become his major work-the effects of solar and, later, heat radiation on atmospheric gases (1860-1870). He then considered the scattering of light particles in the atmosphere[,] the "Tyndall effect[,]" and explained the blue color of the sky ("Rayleigh scattering"). The scattering of sunlight by dust particles ... led him to consider means of destroying airborne organic matter by heat; this in turn kindled his interest in the case against spontaneous generation (1870-1876) and brought him to the defense of Pasteur. This formidable capacity to move from electromagnetism through thermodynamics and into bacteriology was the hallmark of Tyndall's genius. No less formidable were his talents in describing, with charm and lucidity, the phenomena of physics to large audiences." (DSB). Incidentally, Tyndall's interest in dust also led him to propose to Darwin an evolutionary explanation for the existence of nasal hair. Jackson, op. cit., p. 275. A summary by Tyndall of his own experimental work on spontaneous generation is reprinted in James Bryant Conan, ed., "Pasteur's and Tyndall's Study of Spontaneous Generation" (Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, Harv. Univ. Press 1953). During a trip abroad in 1872, Tyndall stopped off in Paris and "spent an hour with Pasteur, whose experiments on fermentation had much impressed him." Jackson quotes a letter now in the archives of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, written by Pasteur to Tyndall in October 1871 - just a month after he had added his notes to Tyndall to the offprint offered here - in which Pasteur "wrote flatteringly that with Tyndall's 'rare genius, your brilliant imagination, your incomparable talent of explaining, you will provide a great service.'" (Jackson, op. cit., p. 297-98). Tyndall returned the compliment, writing in 1878 that "clearness, strength and caution with consummate experimental skill for their minister were rarely more strikingly displayed than in this imperishable essay [Pasteur's Mémoires]." Farley, op. cit., p. 100. OFFPRINT FROM: Société chimique de Paris. Leçons de chimie et de physique professées en 1861. Paris: Ch. Lahure et Cie, [1862]. Original green wrappers rebacked; custom box. Mild browning to wrappers, p.35/36 technically detached but stable when inserted into gutter. THE OFFPRINT ITSELF IS EXCEEDINGLY RARE - WE COULD ONLY CONFIRM THE EXISTENCE OF A HANDFUL OF COPIES; THIS SIGNED AND INSCRIBED COPY UNITING TWO TOWERING FIGURES OF 19TH-CENTURY SCIENCE IS A REMARKABLE SURVIVAL.

The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise Under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution.. by [Women's Suffrage] Clephane, J. O.

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Title: The Right of Women to Exercise the Elective Franchise Under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution..
Author: [Women's Suffrage] Clephane, J. O.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: Washington DC: Judd & Detweiler, 1871. First edition. Disbound and complete in 16 pages. Measuring 215 x 140mm. A pleasing example, with a touch of staining to the title page and light foxing and soiling to the verso of the terminal leaf, else internally clean. Currently the only copy on the market, it has appeared only once at auction, in 1973. On January 11, 1871 two historic speeches occurred: one, through which Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to testify before a Congressional committee, and the present, through which Congressman A. G. Riddle of Ohio supported that work in an act of allyship to Victoria Woodhull herself and to the constituents represented by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. From his opening, Riddle asserts that he is only present because the law prohibits women's free public exercise of speech in front of the Judiciary Committee: "I have always thought that the questions involved in this movement could be more effectively presented by ladies; and I have never appeared in their public discussion except by special request...I have been asked to bring to your notice as well as I may this evening the argument...that the women of these United States are full and complete citizens. Citizens as fully, broadly, and deeply as it is possible for men to be, though not permitted to exercise the elective franchise." For the remainder of the speech, Riddle draws on the language and logical scaffolding so carefully constructed for decades by the suffragists surrounding him. The Constitution guarantees women's citizenship but disenfranchises them through the use of the word "men." The creation of the Fourteenth Amendment and its use of "citizens" and "people" properly adjusts this to include them. No new amendment is necessary; what men simply need to do is acknowledge that "the right to self government is a natural right, [and] it does pertain to every human being alike," meaning that women already have the right to vote, its exercise is simply being denied. "There is no new right to confer upon them. They are simply to go into the new exercise of an old franchise." Ultimately, "We do not need any 16th Amendment. We need only intelligent, firm, decisive and deciding." And he promotes the National Woman Suffrage Association's action plan of civil disobedience: "I propose to offer Mrs. Griffing and two or three other ladies for registration, two or three months hence when the time comes, here. If they are not registered, I propose to try the strength of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia...If they won't, I will take the case to the Supreme Court of the United States." Notably, what Riddle encouraged was what Susan B. Anthony and the NWSA enacted: a campaign of women registering to vote or voting, which led to their arrests and trials, and then to a decision by the Supreme Court that went against their favor. The next steps, over the following six years, was to pursue a 16th Amendment -- and to deploy far more racist dog-whistles than the egalitarian speech here that relies on both Black Americans and women being covered by the 14th Amendment. As the NWSA became more aggressive in aligning itself with white supremacist men and arguing for the necessity of white women's enfranchisement to counteract the "muddying" of elections, it left behind some of the most empowering ideas featured in this speech, that "we have given color to the Constitution" by having "got rid of the 'white'," and that this was a strength.

President Truman Presents The Certificate Of Merit To Dr. Louis Jordan, The Executive Director Of World War Iis War Metallurgy Committee And The War Metallurgy Division Of The National Defense Research Committee by HARRY TRUMAN

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Title: President Truman Presents The Certificate Of Merit To Dr. Louis Jordan, The Executive Director Of World War Iis War Metallurgy Committee And The War Metallurgy Division Of The National Defense Research Committee
Author: HARRY TRUMAN
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: HARRY S. TRUMAN (1884-1972). Truman was the Thirty-Third President. DS. 1pg. 11 x 10. March 1, 1948. Washington. A document signed Harry S Truman as President and co-signed Owen J. Roberts as the Chairman of the Medal for Merit Board. Truman awarded Dr. Louis Jordan the Certificate of Merit for outstanding fidelity and meritorious conduct in aid of the war effort against the common enemies of the United States and its Allies in World War II. Owen Roberts served on the Supreme Court from 1930 to 1945. The accompany letter state that Dr. Jordan served as the Executive Director of both the War Metallurgy Committee of the National Research Council and of the War Metallurgy Division of the National Defense Research Committee, which proved to be an invaluable contribution to the war effort of the United States from January 1942 to June 1946. The famous scientist Linus Pauling once wrote to Jordan about the use of metal alloys to build hypervelocity guns. The document has light curling along the top edge but is in fine condition with a four inch long Truman autograph.

Anitigüedades Mejicanas Falsificadas: Falsificacion y Falsificadores by BATRES, Leopoldo

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Title: Anitigüedades Mejicanas Falsificadas: Falsificacion y Falsificadores
Author: BATRES, Leopoldo
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Condition: Large folding plates are torn at the attachment, else a very good copy; light wear to binding
Description: Mexico: Fidencio S. Soria, nd. Large folding plates are torn at the attachment, else a very good copy; light wear to binding. 4to. 30 pages. 63 plates, with two large folding plates. Brown cloth, original printed wrappers bound in.

The Sock Stories by "Aunt Fanny's" Daughter: Red, White, and Blue Socks, Part First, Being the First Part of the Series; Part Second Being the Second Book of the Series; German Socks Being the Third Part of the Series; Funny Little Socks, Being the Fourth Part of the Series; Funny Big Socks, Being the Fifth Part of the Series; Neighbor Nelly Socks, Being the Sixth and Last Part of the Series by [BARROW, Sarah L.]

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Title: The Sock Stories by "Aunt Fanny's" Daughter: Red, White, and Blue Socks, Part First, Being the First Part of the Series; Part Second Being the Second Book of the Series; German Socks Being the Third Part of the Series; Funny Little Socks, Being the Fourth Part of the Series; Funny Big Socks, Being the Fifth Part of the Series; Neighbor Nelly Socks, Being the Sixth and Last Part of the Series
Author: [BARROW, Sarah L.]
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Tops slightly dusty and bookplates in each, else a nearly fine set
Description: New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1863. Tops slightly dusty and bookplates in each, else a nearly fine set. Six volumes, complete, 12mo. Frontispieces, with tissue guards, and plates. Original green blind-embossed decorated cloth. Sarah L. Barrow was the daughter of Frances Barrow, who wrote the "Nightcaps", "Mittens" and other popular series under the name "Aunt Fanny.

Typed letter signed ("Margaret Ayer Barnes"), Chicago, 5 October 1934 by BARNES, Margaret Ayer (1886-1967)

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Title: Typed letter signed ("Margaret Ayer Barnes"), Chicago, 5 October 1934
Author: BARNES, Margaret Ayer (1886-1967)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: One page, 8vo (8 x 5 inches). On Barnes's printed letterhead, with original matching envelope. In fine condition. The Chicago author replies to a request for an autograph: "I was delighted to receive your friendly note telling me that you enjoyed reading 'Within This Present'. It is always a pleasure to hear from readers who like what you write! Of course I am glad to send you my autograph, with thanks for your interest and with every good wish. " 'Within This Present' was published the previous year, in 1933, and was framed around family life in Chicago.

Baptism by [RLDS] [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]

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Title: Baptism
Author: [RLDS] [Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints]
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Description: Lamoni, IA: Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1882. 10,[2]pp. Stapled wrappers. Age toning and minor chipping to these brittle pages. Work devoted to baptism by immersion. 'Epitome of the Faith and Doctrines of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' is printed on page [1]. Printed on the rear cover [2] is 'Kirtland Temple Suit, Findings of the Court in Lake County, Ohio. Printed by Herald House. Not listed by OCLC. I locate three institutional copies. Rare. Flake/Draper 6885.

Pudd'nhead Wilson by Twain, Mark

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Title: Pudd'nhead Wilson
Author: Twain, Mark
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1900. Hardcover. Fair. Early Printing. Fair to Good. Brown publisher's cloth binding, some rubbing, scuffs, and fraying. Generally firmly bound though the front hinge is cracked and the final leaf is loosely laid-in, some stamps and a bookplate from the Fort Sheridan Library.

The First White House of the Confederacy at Montgomery, Alabama

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Title: The First White House of the Confederacy at Montgomery, Alabama
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
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Description: The First White House Association, 1972. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Stapled wrappers. [20]pp. Pages foxed, very good with dried flowers laid in.

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