De humani corporis fabrica libri septem

Basileae, for Ioannem Oporinum (Basileae, for Ioannem Oporinum, 1555 canteens Augustus)
Second edition of the fundamental anatomical treatise by Vesalius (1514-1564), more complete and edited than the princeps published in Basel by Oporino in 1543. The work is embellished with an impressive illustrative kit, represented by the famous engraved title page depicting Vesalius himself in the center of the anatomical theater while doing a dissection, from his portrait on paper a6v and from numerous anatomical tables in woodcut attributed to Jan Stephan van Calcar.
The specimen comes from the library of the Convent of Santa Maria Maddalena and arrived in the National Library following the law of 1873 which extended the previous 1866 legislation on the suppression of religious corporations to Rome.