A tree serves as a caduceus with a serpent wound around the trunk. The branches are hands, one holding a flower, another a globe. At the top is an eye.
Bookplate: a frame of linked kidneys surround a view from a scholar's latticed window. A microscope and laboratory glassware sit on the window sill with books piled beneath.
Bookplate: A young man holds a jar aloft. To his lower right and left are heraldic shields of Hohenfeld and Mainbernheim, respectively. On upper left and right are anatomic cross-sections.
Bookplate: In a medieval interior, an elderly bearded man in long robes tries on spectacles. Another bearded man sits at a table offering other spectacles.
Bookplate: A physician examines a flask of urine while taking the pulse of a woman. Another woman looks on. Composition inspired by a Jan Steen painting.
Bookplate: Four surgically gowned figures surround an operating table with a patient. Medical instruments are in the foreground, academic buildings are in the background.
Bookplate: A surgeon operates in the background. The grim reaper is in the foreground. A book is open to an image of a snake curled around a chalice to form a caduceus.
Bookplate: Inscribed in a circle is a male physician examining a female patient's eye. Below is a caduceus superimposed over the letters "R.L." against a backdrop of books and several onion-domed buildings.
Bookplate: An elderly bearded man in expensive robes leans across the bed of a young woman. A skull peers over his left shoulder. Above, a banner with "Apage Mors." Below, two snakes threaten across an open flame.
Bookplate: Roundel portrait bust of a man dressed in Renaissance clothing holding a glass retort in his right hand and resting his left hand across a book. Surrounded by cherubs and alchemical apparatus.
Bookplate: An older man in a trenchcoat is seated in a chair with a nicely dressed female skeleton on his lap. Books and lab equipment are on shelves behind them.
Bookplate: Winged cherub surrounded by a decorative frame of foliage holds aloft a candle in his right hand. He pries open the mouth of a serpent with his left hand and right foot.
Bookplate: Clothing is pulled over the head of a figure that is disrobing in front of an examining table illuminated by a ceiling light. Physician stands at right with his hands behind his back.
Bookplate: Young girl with a flower in her right hand sits on a grassy hillside. Against a mountain backdrop two children carry an oversized crutch. An arch of roses frames the scene with a serpent and bowl on the right and an owl and books below.
Bookplate: Floral elements form a "B" on which sits a cupid holding open the jaws of a serpent from the staff of Aesculapius. Latin quotation from Seneca.
Bookplate: Naked male infant standing atop a pillar urinating into a test tube attached by a clamp to a stand. Around the stand and test tube is wound a snake.
Bookplate: Bearded scholar reading in a grape arbor supported by doric columns. Foxglove growing at left. Greek inscription on cross beam [Proverbs 8:21].
Bookplate: Two trees tower over a shield with a caduceus and a shield with a rooster. A pelican is surrounded by Tulane's motto: "Non sibi, sed suis" ("Not for one's self, but for one's own").
Bookplate: Winged Caduceus with two serpents inside an oval wreath, flanked by books. An oak branch with acorns is laid across a third book lying beneath the wreath.
Bookplate: Seal of the American College of Surgeons on which Aesculapius is seated with his Caduceus on the left side of a tree and an Indian medicine man with healing paraphenalia is seated on the right.
Bookplate: A young man and woman seeking protection kneel in front of Aesculapius who extends his staff with a serpent against a menacing skeleton with a scythe. Ionic columns frame the landscape.
Bookplate: Poem enclosed in a ruled border: If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me.
Picture by Minrikson of a girl sitting, holding a skull, with a snake wrapped around a large basin in the background. At bottom "H. J. Achard Medicinae doctor."
Picture by Slevadi of a nude woman standing among trees with a snake coiled on a book on the ground. Text at top: "Ex Libris Privis." Name at bottom: Abraham F. Lash.