In 1538, he published six anatomical tables issued apparently in single leaves.

Of the famous "Tabulae Anatomicae" only two copies are known, one in the San Marco Library, Venice, and the other in the possession of Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, whose father had it reproduced in facsimile (thirty copies only) in 1874.

Some of the figures were drawn by Vesalius himself, and some are from the pencil of his friend and countryman, Stephan van Calcar.

Those plates were extensively pirated.

About this time he also edited for the Giunti some of the anatomical works of Galen.( 21) (21) De anatomicis administrationibus, De venarum arterinrumque dissectione, included in the various Juntine editions of Galen.
We know very little of his private life at Padua.