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Crittografia - Dalla Porta, Giovanni Battista
De Furtivis Literarum Notis. Vulgo de ziferis libris quinque., 1602
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Naples Subtle 1602. In small folio. Author's coat of arms engraved in wood on the title page, numerous woodcuts with diagrams and codes, wood-engraved drop caps, headpieces and friezes, small tear without loss on the lower margin of the title page and small restoration on the upper margin, light browning, more intense on a few leaves , woodworm work on the outer margin of the last issues, coeval parchment binding, title and author in gold on the spine, some handwritten annotations, minor defects.
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First folio edition (the third after Naples 1563 and London 1591) of the famous work on cryptography by Della Porta. It describes one of the first examples of a polyalphabetic substitution cipher.
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