ELSHOLTZ, Johann Sigismund (1623-1688). Diaeteticon: das ist, newes Tisch-Buch, Cölln an der Spree [i.e. Berlin], for the author by Georg Schultzen, 1682, 4°, title printed in red and black, 9 engraved plates (all but one plate dampstained, erased ownership inscription to lower margin of title, a few light dampstains to title, marginal repairs to Rr4, hole to margin of Tt3, printing flaw to Xx4, a few margins lightly dampstained), contemporary calf-backed speckled boards, spine gilt (head of spine chipped, corners bumped), bookplate of the Bibliotheca Raschkiana. [Waller 2744]

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ELSHOLTZ, Johann Sigismund (1623-1688). Diaeteticon: das ist, newes Tisch-Buch, Cölln an der Spree [i.e. Berlin], for the author by Georg Schultzen, 1682, 4°, title printed in red and black, 9 engraved plates (all but one plate dampstained, erased ownership inscription to lower margin of title, a few light dampstains to title, marginal repairs to Rr4, hole to margin of Tt3, printing flaw to Xx4, a few margins lightly dampstained), contemporary calf-backed speckled boards, spine gilt (head of spine chipped, corners bumped), bookplate of the Bibliotheca Raschkiana. [Waller 2744]

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Elsholtz was also the author of Anthropometria (Padua, 1654) and Clymastica nova (Berlin, 1665), the first physician to study anthropometry and human proportion, and one of the first to deal with blood transfusion.

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