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De Occultis Literarum Notis seu Artis Animi sensa Occulte aliis significandi, aut ab aliis significata expiscandi enondandique Libri IIII. Explicantur autem inter catetera et veterum quoque scriptorum loca, hac de arte loquentia indidemque petita.
by PORTA (Giovanni Battista della)
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About This Item
Montbeliard, Apud Iacobum Foillet, Expensis Lazari Zetzneri, 1593. 8vo. 8 leaves. 275 pages. 24 pages. 8 leaves. Contemporary parchment with flaps, smooth spine decorated with gilding. Extremely rare edition of this treatise on cryptography by the great Italian scientist Giovanni Baptista della Porta (c. 1535-1615). It was one of the first books printed in Montbeliard by Jacques Foillet, the town's first printer, who had only started business in 1588. This work on secret writings was first published in Naples in 1563 under a different title ("De Furtivis Literarum Notis"). It is one of the most important treatises on the subject, after Tritheim's "Polygraphia". The illustration consists of woodcuts in the text. This copy contains intact on one plate the three volvelles intended to be cut out. It also has twenty-four pages and eight leaves not described by Nardin, the bibliographer of the printer Jacques Foillet. Some foxing. A fine copy in an attractive parchment binding nicely gilt on the spine. Nardin, Jacques Foillet n. 34 (who did not know the 24 + 8 leaves at the end of our copy). Caillet, 8856: "Ouvrage fort rare et extrêment curieux". Riccardi, II, 309.
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- Title
- De Occultis Literarum Notis seu Artis Animi sensa Occulte aliis significandi, aut ab aliis significata expiscandi enondandique Libri IIII. Explicantur autem inter catetera et veterum quoque scriptorum loca, hac de arte loquentia indidemque petita.
- Author
- PORTA (Giovanni Battista della)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Keywords
- VARIA;Occultisme;REGIONALISME Français;Italie;Franche-Comté;Cryptographie;
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