KOCH, Robert (1843-1910). Untersuchungen über die Aetiologie der Wundinfectionskrankheiten . Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel, 1878. First edition of Koch’s important contribution to the germ theory of disease. ‘His great work determined the role of bacteria in the aetiology of wound infections and demonstrated for the first time the specificity of infection. It also contains the first explicit statement of the criteria […] which later became known as Koch’s postulates’ (Garrison-Morton). Garrison-Morton 2536; Norman 1229; PMM 366b. Octavo (223 x 152mm). 5 lithographed plates (trivial waterstain in upper corner of plates). Contemporary half cloth over boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (spine ends just chipped, spine lightly sunned, removed label leaving faint traces of adhesive). Provenance : Frankfurt, Royal Institute for Experimental Therapy (stamps) – Dr. Petersen (ink stamp) – upper corner excised from front endpaper probably removing provenance mark – printed portrait of the author on front pastedown.
KOCH, Robert (1843-1910). Untersuchungen über die Aetiologie der Wundinfectionskrankheiten . Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel, 1878. First edition of Koch’s important contribution to the germ theory of disease. ‘His great work determined the role of bacteria in the aetiology of wound infections and demonstrated for the first time the specificity of infection. It also contains the first explicit statement of the criteria […] which later became known as Koch’s postulates’ (Garrison-Morton). Garrison-Morton 2536; Norman 1229; PMM 366b. Octavo (223 x 152mm). 5 lithographed plates (trivial waterstain in upper corner of plates). Contemporary half cloth over boards, spine ruled and lettered in gilt (spine ends just chipped, spine lightly sunned, removed label leaving faint traces of adhesive). Provenance : Frankfurt, Royal Institute for Experimental Therapy (stamps) – Dr. Petersen (ink stamp) – upper corner excised from front endpaper probably removing provenance mark – printed portrait of the author on front pastedown.
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