In hoc uolumine haec continentur Aurelij Cornelij Celsi Medicinae libri 8
A 1528 Latin edition of Celsus's eight books of medicine, printed in Venice at the Aldine press by Andreas Torresanus of Asola, the printer's house. The pictures are small woodcut and printers' devices: an anchor entwined with a dolphin around a motto, a printed armorial shield with helm and mantling, and a later bookplate of a physician's name with a winged caduceus over open books. A designer could take from them a compact vocabulary of emblems: the anchor-and-dolphin printer's mark, heraldic crest and shield, and the caduceus as a symbol of medicine.
