Printed in green ink, a nude woman, as she scatters roses about, is tugging on a large cloth that is wrapped around a male figure. Behind the male is the top half of a skull on a book. They are in a largely grassy area with small hills and a tree in the background. A phrase beneath the images reads Make the most of what we may yet spend.
Title from item., Frontispiece for: George Alexander Gordon, The Complete English Physician, London: Alexander Hogg, 1779., Sheet trimmed., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Prescriptions; Office interior; Apothecary Shop, interior., and Mounted. Discoloration. 2x2.
Publisher:
Alexander Hogg
Subject (Topic):
Physician and patient, Drugs, Prescribing, Physicians, Sick persons, Medical equipment and supplies, Skeletons, Books, and Medical offices
An open cabinet filled with books. There is an hourglass on each of the cabinet's doors. Above the cabinet is the quote "The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened." -Lucian. Beneath is an insignia in which two hands are holding a caduceus.
Subject (Name):
Robinson, Victor Froben, 1886-1947
Subject (Topic):
Books, Medical historians, Physicians, Snakes, and Time
A stock bookplate—in the center of a border of wavy designs, dolphins, compasses, and tridents there is the silhouette of a large, tri-masted vessel on the high seas beneath a partly cloudy sky. Above the vessel is the phrase There is no frigate like a book, To bear us lands away! At the base of the plate is a small bookshelf.
Featured within a leafy frame is a scene of a mountain beneath a partly sunny sky and additionally framed by a pine tree. In the forefront below are several books, a microscope, and a skull. Above the entire image is the motto √úber allen Gipseln ist Ruh.