Friedrich Roth-Scholtz. Line engraving by D.C.C. Fleischmann, 1725.

Bookseller, publisher and editor at Nuremberg

He sits in a magnificent library, pointing to a copy of his "Icones virorum omnium ordinum eruditione ... optime meritorum", Nuremberg 1725-1728, showing a bust of Seneca the younger as frontispiece. On the table, a skull. In the foreground an astronomical instrument, a copy of P. Freher's Theatrum virorum, 1688, and a map of Silesia

[Nuremberg?] : [Friedrich Roth-Scholtz?], 1725.

1 print : line engraving ; image and border 28.5 x 18.2 cm

Friderici Roth-Scholtz Icones ... D.C.C. Fleischmann St. J. ad vivum delineavit et sculps.

Not in R. Burgess, Portraits of doctors & scientists in the Wellcome Institute, London 1973

Wellcome Collection 652652i