By Bjarne Tokerud
Published in the Rare Book Monthly
March 1 2024
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for technical reasons.
The story of the discovery and sale of Andreas Vesalius's annotated copy:
DE HUMANIS CORPORIS FABRICA LIBRI SEPTEM, published in Basel in 1555.
Photographs © Bjarne Tokerud. Copyright reserved.
For a superb analysis of the historical importance of the annotations, Dr. Vivian Nutton's article can be found by clicking here.
Dr. Vivian Nutton: "Vesalius, as contemporaries agreed, was a brilliant anatomist, and his book changed the whole development of anatomy. "
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