A shield with a chevron Argent, featuring two right-handed fists with daggers aimed at the head of a dear at the top. Surrounding this, upon a field Azure, are three muzzled animal heads; two above, one below. At the helm is a large crown; at the cres...
Subject (Name):
McKay, W. J. Stewart
Subject (Topic):
Animals, Armorial, Armorial bookplates,, Crown, Physicians, Rifle, and Shields
"A lean man (right) wearing a doctor's tie-wig, is running from left to right to escape from a watchman who stands (left) springing his rightattle. On the ground is a basket or hamper, the lid of which has fallen open to show the body of a young woman...
Description:
Title etched above image; the word "in" after "watch" has been mostly burnished from plate.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hunter, William, 1718-1783
Subject (Topic):
Grave robbing, Anatomists, Lanterns, Watchmen, Staffs (Sticks), Baskets, and Dead persons
Manuscript, on paper, in unidentified hand, of an Italian translation of Averroës' Latin Tractatus or Epitome in physicorum libros (ff. 1r-53v)--a text originally written in Arabic. Also includes a treatise on human diseases in 46 chapters (ff. 54r-65...
Alternative Title:
Trattato di fisica
Description:
In Italian.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Arab, Medicine, Medieval, Medicine, and Manuscripts