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PASTEUR (LOUIS) Autograph letter signed ("L. Pasteur"), to "Mon cher confrère", accepting his invitation for 8 May at 7 with great pleasure, Paris, 29 April 1877
24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
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PASTEUR (LOUIS)
Autograph letter signed ("L. Pasteur"), to "Mon cher confrère", accepting his invitation for 8 May at 7 with great pleasure and asking him in the meanwhile to pay his respects to Madame Burny, 1 page, integral blank, very light dust-staining, 8vo, Paris, 29 April 1877
Footnotes
That month Pasteur published his first paper on Anthrax, in which he established that disease was caused by a living organism.





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