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ANATOMICAL ATLASES -- LUDWIG, Chr.F. De quarundam aegritudinum humani corporis sedibus et causis. Leipzig, Weidmann, 1798. ii lvs., 28 pp. W. 27 fine engr. on 16 plates by I.M. Stock after G.C. Reichel, of which 1 smaller cold. by hand. Lge-fol. Obrds., uncut. (Spine a bit dam., but text & plates remarkably clean and w. ample margins).
Christian Friedrich Ludwig (1751-1823) was the son of the doctor and botanist Christian Gottlieb Ludwig (1709–1773). In 1772 he began studying at the University of Leipzig. Here he acquired a master's degree in philosophy and received his doctorate in medicine in 1779. After he was accepted as an associate professor at the medical faculty in 1779, he took over the professorship of natural history in 1783. In 1787 he became a rural physicist at the Leipzig district office and in 1796 a full professor of pathology. - Biogr. Lexikon III, 859-60. From the library of Jan van der Hoeve (1878-1952), ophthalmologist, and w. his owner's entry on front side. - Rare, not in Wellcome, Choulant, G&M, etc.€ 500
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