Books related to medicine including early modern prints of anatomical atlases. In addition to an anatomy collection, the library also includes surgical works and illustrated books on herbal medicine.
The first collected edition of the works of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) with the famous woodcuts reproduced as copperplate engravings by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). Edited by Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738) and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770) and published in Leiden in 1725, this two-volume folio is dedicated to Charles V.
The first collected edition of the works of Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) with the famous woodcuts reproduced as copperplate engravings by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759). Edited by Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738) and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770) and published in Leiden in 1725, this two-volume folio is dedicated to Charles V.