La metoposcopie de H. Cardan, medecin milanois : comprise en treize liures, et huit cens figures de la face humaine : a laquelle a esté adjousté, Le traicté des marques naturelles du corps, par Melampus, antien autheur grec : le tout traduit en françois par le sieur C. M. de Laurendiere, docteur en medecine
A 1658 Paris printing of Girolamo Cardano's physiognomy treatise on the human face, translated into French by a Parisian doctor and issued by the publisher Thomas Iolly. Its pictures are small, numbered woodcut-style head studies of men in bust format, set on plain grounds with minimal shading. A designer could take from them a clean, schematic vocabulary for rendering faces through brow lines, eye shapes, hair and beards in a simple line style.
