The bookplate of Professor Dr. Maria Kuhnert-Brandstätter, like that of Dr. Ludwig Kofler, who was her mentor, contains elements symbolic of pharmacognosy – the plants, chemical apparatus, and, of course, the microscope (Figure 56).  The initials on the mortar indicate that she composed her own bookplate.  She is known worldwide for her book, Thermomicroscopy in the Analysis of Pharmaceuticals (Pergamon Press, 1971), as well as for numerous articles.  About fifteen years ago, when she sent me this bookplate, she was already Emeritus, but still going to her office and laboratory at the Institut für Pharmakognosie, University of Innsbruck, Austria.  At the Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) in 2000, it was announced that Professor Dr. Kuhnert-Brandstätter was the recipient of the New York Microscopical Society’s Ernst Abbe Memorial Award.

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The bookplate of Professor Dr. Med. Adolf Loewÿ (Figure 57) suggests a Swiss medical doctor.  In addition to a microscope on the laboratory bench, there is a skeleton, chemical apparatus, gas burner, reagent bottles, and instruments.  The rat and rabbit are common experimental laboratory animals, and the sheaves of grain suggest an interest in nutrition studies as well.

The bookplate of William DeBerniere Macnider (Figure 58, 59) is dominated by a bookcase/window ledge, with a view to the outside.  In addition to the various chemical glassware and reagent bottles below, there is a fine representation of a microscope.  A legume borders the bookplate.  William Macnider was born in 1881, and died in 1951.  He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1938.  In 1941 he was the recipient of the Kober Medal awarded by the Association of American Physicians, Chapel Hill, NC.  There is a folder of his manuscripts in the University Manuscript Library of the University of North Carolina. 

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The bookplate of William Manning (Figure 60) was composed by his friend, Charles Holme.  It is symbolic of Manning’s special interests and pursuits, microscopical, cosmographic, and artistic; there is also indication of his special appointment as “Seer” among the “Odd Volumes.”  A rare-book dealer friend of mine told me that he believed that “Seer of Odd Volumes” on Manning’s bookplate refers to an office he may have held in an organization known as, Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, which he believed was located in Boston.

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