I'd somehow missed awareness on the existence of Vesalius's own annotated copy for a future edition of De Fabrica -- many thanks for pointing that out! The two author-annotated books for future editions that I stumbled across during grad school & post-grad years were Willibald Pirckheimer's translation of Ptolemy's Geography (in the Royal Society library in London) and Albrecht Dürer's copy of his Underweyssung der Messung (in the BSB-Munich). In the latter case, his annotations were accurately incorporated into a posthumous second edition, but the famous woodcut of a guy sketching a naked woman through a perspective apparatus was ironically changed from Dürer's original drawing in which the figure being sketched was most definitely male. Also "Library at Night" rules! :-)
I'd somehow missed awareness on the existence of Vesalius's own annotated copy for a future edition of De Fabrica -- many thanks for pointing that out! The two author-annotated books for future editions that I stumbled across during grad school & post-grad years were Willibald Pirckheimer's translation of Ptolemy's Geography (in the Royal Society library in London) and Albrecht Dürer's copy of his Underweyssung der Messung (in the BSB-Munich). In the latter case, his annotations were accurately incorporated into a posthumous second edition, but the famous woodcut of a guy sketching a naked woman through a perspective apparatus was ironically changed from Dürer's original drawing in which the figure being sketched was most definitely male. Also "Library at Night" rules! :-)