Cryptomenysis patefacta: or the art of secret information disclosed without a key. . Containing, plain and demonstrative rules, for decyphering all manner of secret intimations by signs or gestures, or in speech. As also an inquiry into the secret ways of conveying written messages: and the several mysterious proposals for secret information, mentioned by Trithemius, &c. By J.F.
John Falconer
Category
Books
Date
1685
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 3057844
Summary
Bibliographic description
[26],180p. . 8vo.. Imperfect: lacks title page and preceding blank. Provenance: Bookplate: Belton House (earl's coronet & crests). Old Belton pressmark on pastedown: 108. Binding: Seventeenth-century sprinkled calf binding, single blind fillet border. Spine-label: 'Art of Decy'.
Makers and roles
John Falconer