VOSSIUS (Gerardus Joannes). De quatuor artibus popularibus, de philologia, et scientiis mathematicis, cui Operi subjungitur, chronologia mathematicorum, libri tres. Amsterdam: Joan Blaeu, 1650 - In-4, red morocco, boards decorated in the Du Seuil style, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt edges (period binding). Uncommon first edition. The historian and grammarian Gerardus Joannes Vossius (1577-1649) offers a treatise on the four popular arts, which for him were grammar, gymnastics, music and painting. It then moves on to philology and the mathematical sciences, ending with an interesting chronology of mathematicians. A prize copy, in contemporary morocco, awarded in 1705 as first prize in Latin to a student named Daniel Mathaeus Langlois of the Collège Royal de la Compagnie de Jésus. Crack at the hinge of the first cover, at the level of the first box, tear at the edge of the head cover.