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<dl><dd>Half-title: Systema integrum cryptographiae authore Gustavo Seleno</dd>
<dd>Gustavus Selenus is the pseudonym for August, Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg</dd>
<dd>Engravings signed by Lucas Kilian and Wolfgang Kilian</dd>
<dd>Imprint from colophon</dd>
<dd>Signatures: a-ćœ A-2Ŕœ 2Śı (2S8=blank)</dd>
<dd>Leaves Q3, Q4, and Q5 are oversized and folded</dd>
<dd>Error in pagination: 178 is misnumbered 188</dd>
<dd>Engraved, historiated title page; woodcut head- and tailpieces, initials</dd>
<dd>Includes name index, preliminary p. [13]-[16]</dd>
<dd>Errata on preliminary p. [36] (leaf c6 verso)</dd>
<dd>Galland, J.S. Bibliography of cryptology</dd>
<dd>Shulman, D. Bibliography of cryptography</dd>
<dd>Caillet, A.L. Sciences psychiques</dd>
<dd>Faber du Faur</dd>
<dd>Cataloged</dd>
<dd>Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy bound in early vellum panelled in double-ruled blind with fore-edge cover extensions. The spine is unlabeled. Present on the front pastedown is an early price inscription, the ink stamp of the Lunds universitetsbibliotek, the withdrawal stamp of the same, and the bookplate of the BPL dated June 22, 1892. An early inscription is present on the lower right corner of the half-title. The perforation and embossed stamps of the BPL are present on the title page. The folded letterpress leaf is here inserted in front of C4. 2S4.5 has been bound-in backwards</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516; Cryptography; Ciphers</div>
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<dl><dd>August, Duke of Braunschweig-Luneburg, 1579-1666</dd>
<dd>Kilian, Lucas, 1579-1637, engraver</dd>
<dd>Kilian, Wolfgang, 1581-1662, engraver</dd>
<dd>Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 1578-1637, dedicatee</dd>
<dd>Johann und Heinrich Stern, printer</dd>
<dd>Lunds universitetsbibliotek, former owner</dd></dl></div>
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