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VESALIUS, ANDREAS. Andreae Vesalii Bruzellensis icones anatomicae, ediderunt Academia Medicinae Nova-Eboracensis et Bibliotheca Universitatis Monacensis. New York and Munich: Bremer Press, 1934.

The publication of this large and beautiful volume of original woodblocks from Vesalius' Fabrica, Epitome, and Tabulae Anatomia Sex was a joint project of the New York Academy of Medicine and the Library of the University of Munich. Two hundred and twenty-seven of the illustrations were printed from the sixteenth-century woodblocks used by Oporinus. Fifty of the original woodblocks were missing and these were reproduced photographically. Tragically, the original woodblocks were destroyed during World War II as a result of Allied bombing raids.

Vesalius' anatomy, the Fabrica, published when the author was only twenty-nine, is the foundation of modern medicine.