‎"VOSSIUS, GERHARD (GERARDUS) JOHANN. - ""ARTES LIBERALES"" AND THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS.‎
‎Ars Historica. Sive de Historiae, & Historicis naturâ, Historiaeque scribendae praeceptis, Commentario. Ad Illustrissimum Virum, Joannem Berckium. (+) De Qvattuor Artibus popularibus, de Philologia, et Scientiis Mathematicis, Cui Operi sunjungitur, Ch...‎

‎Leiden, Joannis Maire, 1653 - Amsterdam, Ioannes Blaeu, 1650. 4to. One contemp. full vellum. Contemp. handwritten titles (weak) to spine. First title in red/black with large engraved titlevignette. (8),154,(1) pp. (Ars Historica 1653) - (16),94,(14) pp. (Grammatistice etc. 1650) - (8),83,(15) pp. (De Philologia, 1650) - (16),467,(33) pp. (De Universae Mathesios..., 1650). Fine and clean.‎

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‎First edition of ""De Qvattuor Artibus..."" (which includes ""De Universae Mathesios"" with separate titlepage) and second edition of ""Ars Historica""The mathematical work: Poggendorff II, 1235. ""de Mathesios."": ""According to prof. Cantor, (it) is the first history of mathematics in its widest sense"". Honeyman Coll., 3081.‎