Annotated version of Andreas Vesalius’s masterwork on human anatomy up for auction

Mind-blowing' edition of 16th-century anatomist's De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem estimated to be worth up to 1m

When the Renaissance physician Andreas Vesalius wrote his magnum opus on human anatomy in 1543, he transformed the study of medicine and revolutionised the way scientists investigate the world.

A mind-blowing" edition of his De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, estimated to be worth up to 1m, is to be sold at auction for the first time since scholars discovered it was annotated by Vesalius himself.