The Bacteria. Translated by George M. Sternberg. by MAGNIN, Antoine - 1880

Boston:: Little, Brown, 1880., 1880. 8vo. 227 pp. 10 plates (including 6 heliotypes + 4 lithographs), index. Original green cloth; spine ends worn, top joint torn and mended, corners showing. Bookplates of Elie Metchnikoff Memorial Library and Indiana University, with their embossed stamp on title and rear pocket, spine call number. Good. RARE. FIRST EDITION in English. Garrison and Morton 2492 (first French edition of 1878). "As a pioneer in America, not only in bacteriological investigations, but in the publication of text-books on bacteriology, Dr. Sternberg deserves appreciation. In 1880 he translated . . . the work of Dr. Antoine Magnin, and enlarged it and brought it up to date in 1884." – Kelly & Burrage. Burns, American Medical Publications with Photographs, p. 1245 and fig. 11(reproducing plate 7 with 4 photomicrographs).