Picture of a woman holding a bowl from which smoke is emerging. A skull and the outline of a city is shown at the top of sheet. Drawn by Fernando Deverini. Text in Latin.
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.
173 v. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm and Contains 19 individual issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The following issues are included:
Vol. XII, No. 21 May 25, 1889;
Vol. XIII, No. 2 July 13, 1889;
Vol. XIII, No. 4 July 27,...
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: 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: Aesculapius with staff in a medallion surrounded by a border with a stag pursued by a hunter with gun, a chemical retort, and a raven. On verso is 04047.
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: 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: 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.