Pioneering French microbiologist and chemist (1822–1895) who demonstrated the germ theory of disease and developed the first vaccine against rabies. Vintage 5.25 x 7 print of a bust portrait of Pasteur by Legamey, originally done in 1886, affixed to an off-white 8.5 x 12 mount, with the mount bearing a large facsimile signature, and signed and inscribed in fountain pen in the lower border, “Souvenir du 11 mai 1886 a M. Maurice Vallery-Radot, L. Pasteur.” Double-cloth-matted and framed to an overall size of 17 x 20.5. In fine condition, with a few scattered creases to mount. Vallery-Radot was the grandson of the brother of the son-in-law of Pasteur. Pasteur’s signature here came less than a year after he first showed the French Academy of Sciences promising results of his treatment against rabies in humans, and two months following his March 1886 presentation of a study of 350 inoculated with his rabies vaccine—of which there was only one unsuccessful treatment. ‘There is cause to create a rabies vaccine establishment,’ he said at the time. A magnificent photo signed as Pasteur was in the middle of making scientific history. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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