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Règles des genres, des Déclinaisons, des Prétérits, de la Syntax, de la Quantité et des Accens Latins, mise en François, dans un ordre très clair, et très abregé. Nouvelle Edition. Paris: Pierre le Petit? 1677.
12mo. All the Library of Congress catalogues which distinguish the Jefferson collection call for an edition printed in Paris, 1677, a copy of which has not been located in any bibliography or catalogue consulted. Pierre le Petit printed an edition as above in 1676, and an edition was printed in Brussels in 1677.
Barbier I, 30.
For the Nouvelle Methode, see no. 4780. The first edition of the Abrégé was published in 1655.
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Ruddimanni institutiones Grammaticae Latinae. 8 vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 167, no. 67, as above.
RUDDIMAN, Thomas.
Grammaticæ Latinæ Institutiones, facili, et ad Puerorum Captum accommodata, Methodo perscriptæ. Thoma Ruddimanno, A. M. Auctore . . . Editio Nova. Edinburgi: apud Wal. Ruddiman, J. Richardson, et socios, mdcclxviii . [1768.]
Sm. 8vo. 2 parts in 1 with separate signatures and pagination. The first part contains Etymologiæ, the second part is subdivided into 3 parts: pars secunda, De Syntaxi, pars tertia, De Orthographia, pars quarta, De Prosodia. There is not a copy of the ninth edition in the Library of Congress. The information is taken from the tenth edition of which there is a copy, collated with a card in the National Union Catalog.
This edition not in Lowndes and not in the Catalogue of the Advocates’ Library.
Catalogue of the Edinburgh University Library III, 411.
Thomas Ruddiman, 1674-1757, Scots philologist, in 1702 was appointed assistant librarian of the Advocates’ Library, and eventually became the keeper. Ruddiman was one of the compilers of the Advocates’ Library catalogue, and also assisted his friend Ames with the Typographical Antiquities . He had a printing business, one of his partners being his brother Walter. On his retirement from the Advocates’ Library he was succeeded by David Hume. The first editions of the two parts of the Grammaticæ Latinæ Institutiones were published separately, in 1725 and 1731, respectively. They were frequently reprinted.
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Ruddiman’s Lat. Rudiments. 12 mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 167, no. 12, Ruddiman’s Rudiments of the Latin, 12mo.

1839 Catalogue, page 659, no. J. 4, Ruddiman, T.: Rudiments of the Latin Tongue, 12mo; Philadelphia, 1809.
RUDDIMAN, Thomas.
The Rudiments of the Latin Tongue; or, a plain and easy Introduction to Latin Grammar: wherein the Principles of the Language are methodically Digested both in English and Latin. With Useful Notes and Observations, explaining the Terms of Grammar, and further Improving its Rules. By Thomas Ruddiman, M. A. The [ Twenty-Fifth?] Genuine Edition. Carefully Corrected and Improved. Philadelphia, 1809.
12mo. A copy of a Philadelphia edition of 1809 was not located, nor found in any bibliography consulted. The Twenty-Second Genuine Edition was printed in Philadelphia by John Bioren for Robert Campbell and Company in 1798; the Twenty-Fourth in Philadelphia by Johnson in 1806 (and also in New York in 1805); the Twenty-Fifth in Raleigh in 1809; and the Twenty-Sixth in Richmond in 1816.
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