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Vesalius Portrait & First Page

Andreas Vesalius. Andreae Vesalii Bruxellens, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris. De humani corporis fabrica. Basileae: Ex officina Joannis Oporini, anno salutis reparatae 1543. H. Richard Tyler Collection. Portrait of Andreas Vesalius and the first page of text. Note the putti boiling bones in the historiated initial.