These illustrations by Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty are part of a collection which is to be auctioned off at Christie's in New York on October 5th.
The auction, which is called Anatomy as Art: The Dean Endell Medical Collection, has 229 lots, including the first edition of De Humani Corporis Fabrica, by Andreas Vesalius, estimated at $200,000- $300,000. The illustrations above are from lots 85 and 91, which together have estimates of $80,000- $120,000.
Illustrations by both Vesalius and d'Agoty were used by Jessica for 3 of my beautiful rotating custom headers.
(Via Morbid Anatomy)
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