An oval-shaped engraving of the plate owner, with George W. Mears, M.D. Memorial Medical Library Founded A.D. 1900 surrounding the image. Below is the motto Justum et Tenacem Propositi Virum.
Subject (Name):
Fineken, James M. and Mears, George W.
Subject (Topic):
Medical colleges, Medical historians, Medical libraries, and Portraits
A color reproduction of a surgical scene by Hans von Gersdorff, 1551. A surgeon operating on the head of a patient. Trent gave his collection to Duke University upon his death.
A coat of arms with a light-colored Star of David against a dark field. At the center of the Star is a buck. At the crest is a lion sporting a crown and two stone tablets beneath his right paw.
Subject (Name):
Kisch, Bruno, 1890-1966 and Kisch, Ruth
Subject (Topic):
Lion, Medical historians, Physicians, Shield, and Star
At the top center can be seen the image of a keystone, and a globe and flaming lamp within. Surrounding the keystone, on a ribbon, is the phrase Library of the University of Pennsylvania.
Subject (Name):
Agnew, Hulbert and Agnew, D. Hayes (David Hayes), 1818-1892
Subject (Topic):
Globe, Medical colleges, Medical historians, Medical libraries, Physicians, and Sword
A border, the top consisting of small, nude, human-like creatures performing an autopsy on a larger human. Beneath the title text are various potted plants, laboratory artifacts, and a caduceus. approximately 1775, Newburyport, Mass.
Subject (Name):
Swett, John, 1830-1913
Subject (Topic):
Birds, Caduceus, Candles, Chemical apparatus, Children, Medical historians, and Nature
Looking through a window, there is a sitting woman, holding a branch, with her hand on a book. On the table beneath her is a heart in a glass case, a candle, an hourglass and an open book. Beneath the image is the phrase Forever wilt thou love and she be fair.
Subject (Name):
Shaftel, Norman
Subject (Topic):
Bookplate collectors, Books, Candles, Heart, Medical historians, Physicians, Time, and Woman
A man and a winged woman, both nude, with an oval between them with a large caduceus in the center. At the top are seals of three universities: The University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, and Fordham. At the bottom are various sketches of books, pens, skulls, a lamp, etc..
Subject (Name):
Seliger, Robert V. (Robert Victor), b. 1900
Subject (Topic):
Books, Medical historians, Seal, Snakes, and Woman
A square frame embroidered with leaves with a lit candle on top. A poem within the frame quotes "Reade me with the Eyes o' the Minde/The Goode is in mee see thou Flinde/And sith Bookes be but worke of Manne/The Evill in mee looke thou banne". -G. H. H. : 1877.
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