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Tableau syllabique et steganographique ... = A Syllabical and steganographical table ...
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wouves, P. R.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Ciphers.
- Cipher and telegraph codes.
- Cryptography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (2 sheets ([16]p.) )
- Other Title:
- Syllabical and steganographical table.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphie : De l'imprimerie de Benjamin Franklin Bache, no. 112, rue de Marche/a1, [1797]
- Notes:
- Each sheet is imposed as a 4⁰. The tables were evidently intended to be kept folded but opened for use "just as it is wont to do for the use of a geographical map." - "192d Pennsylvania District copyright, issued to P.R. Wouves, as author, 9 November, 1787"--Evans.
- ".. by means of which any sort of writings, taken from either the French, English, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian languages .. can easily be rendered or converted into numerical figures." - Extracted from Wouves's planned work on steganography and made available to subscribers prior to publication of the whole. The work as a whole was never published.
- Imprint from the French title page on verso of sheet.
- Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 33249
- English Short Title Catalog, W9.
- OCLC:
- 510834699
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