Rare edition of the most popular work on Latin (school) grammar and syntax in the Northern Netherlands, first published in 1627, by the famous humanist scholar Gerard Vossius (1577-1649). It was based upon an earlier popular grammar by Lodewijk Dijkgraaf, in Latin Lithocomus, which Vossius himself had used in his schooldays, and still had to use again when teaching at the Latin School at Dordrecht. So he started to purge the worst defeciencies in Dijkgraaf's grammar, and published the first edition in 1626. However, Vossius was not satisfied with this version either, and until the end of his life he continued to rework his grammar. Finally in 1649 he published the fifth edition, which he himself judged now to be perfect, calling it the "editio princeps". With his Latin grammar Vossius made a major contribution to reforming education at the Latin Schools.
The present is the seventh edition, corrected and enlarged with extra notes. The book is finely printed in several different types, with the notes and annotations in small print arranged around the main text. It still is purely in Latin, only in the course of the 18th century a translation in Dutch as well as Latin-Dutch vocabularies were added.
With a small blue and white label on the spine, remnants of a yellow label on the front paste-down and some annotations on the paste-downs and flyleaves. Further with a manuscript owner's inscription on the title-page. The binding is slightly dust-soiled and with slight foxing throughout. Otherwise in good condition. STCN 123749972 (2 copies); WorldCat 993678118, 785577515, 44833130, 174868541 (4 copies); cf. Rademaker 19 (does not know the present edition); not in NUC.