A pictorial-style bookplate in black ink on ivory paper with a lined border. The central image is of a man seated at a desk in Elizabethan clothing. He wears a hat and is writing in a book with a quill. There is a small banner at the top right that reads “"Ich Schutze Dich” or “I Protect You” in German. At the bottom left is a small coat-of-arms bearing an East Asian dragon and the letter N and at right is a banner with the name Dr. Hans Nissl.