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"Consider me surprised: Vesalius’s Vesalius, which fetched $2,280,000 the other day at @ChristiesBKS, didn’t sell to a private collector after all!

Was purchased by the Belgian Gov’t and KU Leuven. Will be at the university library.

newatlas.com/collectibles..."
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"In 2007 a Canadian physician paid $14,250 for a well-used copy of "De humani corporis fabrica" (1555) that was covered in latin annotations by an unknown hand. The handwriting turned out to be that of..."
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