FABRE (Jean-Henri). Starch. Sweet matter.... - Lot 7 - Métayer-Mermoz Maison de Ventes aux Enchères Paris

FABRE (Jean-Henri). Starch. Sweet matter. Alcoholic fermentation. Bread-making. Alcohol in general. Ethyl alcohol. Coal. Manuscript partly autograph. S.l.n.d. ca. 1869], 36 pp. mostly in-folio (28.9 x 19.5 cm), in sheets, some erasures and corrections, central fold, traces of dust and handling on some leaves. MANUSCRIPT OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY PARTLY DEVOTED TO WINE, BEER AND BREAD-MAKING. It consists of 7 chapters numbered VII to XII and XVII, including 26 autograph pp. and 10 pp. of printed placards fixed on the ff. by pins, i.e. 36 pp. in total : Chap. VII. Starch (pp. [85] to 87). Contains a summary on starchy matter. - VIII. Sweet matter (pp. 90-94 and 97-99). Contains 1 f. of printed proofs and a summary on glucose and sugars. - IX. Alcoholic fermentation (pp. 102-108 and 111). Contains 7 ff. of printed proofs with handwritten corrections and 1 autograph. This chapter deals with the making of wine (devatting and pressing, fining, alterations of the wine), cider and beer (malting, brewing, fermentation) with a summary at the end. - X. Bread-making (pp. 112-117), with 1 printed copy. This chapter, complete, is divided as follows: wheat; flours; gluten; pasta; granulated gluten; bread; kneading; characteristics of bread; spontaneous alteration of bread; summary. - XI. Alcohol in general (p. 126), containing the end of the summary of this chapter. - XII. Ethyl alcohol (pp. 127, 131, 132 and 135): alcoholic tests; preparation of absolute alcohol; ethyl ether or ethyl ether; hydrogen bicarbon or ethylene oxide; preparation of ether; industrial manufacture of ether; summary. - XVII. Hard coal (pp. 173-177, 179): classification of hard coal; lighting gas; preparation process; product of distillation; ammonia; summary (the beginning is missing). Contains 2 ff. of printed proofs. This manuscript was published in: MALAGUTI (F.) and FABRE (J.-H.), Chimie organique. Paris, Ch. Delagrave, 1870, chap. 7 to 17. Cf. Ca