Joann. Sigismundi Elsholtii D. & Medici Electoral. Brandeburgici Anthropometria, sive De mutua membrorum corporis humani proportione, & Naevorum harmonia Libellus
Johann Sigismund Elsholtz, a physician to the Electoral court of Brandenburg, published this Latin treatise in 1663 on the proportions of the human body and the arrangement of moles and birthmarks. The pictures are small engraved plates with ornamental cartouche frames, showing a nude figure from front and back in a spread-arm pose, a head on a plinth with numbered points, and a detailed hand with lettered lines. A designer could take from them the diagrammatic, measured look of early anatomical charts, with their figures framed in decorative engraved borders and annotated with letters and numbers.
