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[FALCONER (JOHN)] Cryptomenysis Patefacta: or the Art of Secret Information Disclosed without a Key. Containing plain and demonstrative rules for decyphering all manner of secret writing..., Daniel Brown, 1685
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[FALCONER (JOHN)]
Cryptomenysis Patefacta: or the Art of Secret Information Disclosed without a Key. Containing plain and demonstrative rules for decyphering all manner of secret writing..., diagrams in the text, with blanks A1 and A8, titled in ink on fore-edges and on old tab tipped-in at foot of M7, contemporary sheep, worn, hinges split [ESTC R6319; Alston III (2), p.787], 8vo, Daniel Brown, 1685
Footnotes
First edition of this work on cryptography, which was greatly influenced by Schott and John Wilkins.