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PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA. De furtivis literarum notis, vulgo de ziferis libri IIII. 1563
PORTA, GIOVANNI BATTISTA DELLA. De furtivis literarum notis, vulgo de ziferis libri IIII. Woodcut arms of the dedicatee, Philip II of Spain, on title; 3 elaborate full-page woodcut dials with volvelles (first volvelle pasted down, second loose, third functional, with modern thread); 20 woodcuts of cipher messages in text. [16], 228 pages. 4to, contemporary limp vellum, book block loose in binding; occasional light marginal dampstaining, scattered foxing and early marginalia, old scored inscriptions on title. Naples: Giovanni Maria Scoto, 1563
- Notes: first edition. "Along with Trithemius and Vigenère, Porta is generally regarded as one of the founders of modern cryptography. This first edition of his encyclopaedic work on the subject includes historical sections on deciphering and on cryptography in the ancient world"--Philip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection 5. Adams P1924; Harvard/Mortimer-Italian 397.
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