Chemical Library

An ornate copperplate engraving shows a grand library interior. In the foreground, a scholarly gentleman in a wig and robes, likely Friedrich Roth-Scholtz himself, sits in a chair. Behind him, a scribe at a large stone desk writes with a quill pen. The side of the desk is inscribed with the title of the book. To the right, another figure carries a tall stack of books. The background reveals a library with high, vaulted ceilings and bookshelves filled to the top, where a person stands on a ladder to reach a volume. In the lower right corner, three cherubs gather around a celestial globe, measuring it with dividers. A pile of books rests on the floor in the lower left. Heavy tasseled drapery frames the top left of the scene. The entire image is enclosed in a double-line border with the engraver's signature at the bottom right.

original: "FR: ROTH-SCHOLTZII"

original: "BIBLIOTHECA CHEMICA"

The original Latin abbreviation "sc:" stands for "sculpsit," meaning "he engraved it." "Norimb:" is an abbreviation for "Norimbergae," the city of Nuremberg.