Tableau syllabique et steganographique ... = A Syllabical and steganographical table ... [electronic resource].

Syllabical and steganographical table.

Philadelphie : De l'imprimerie de Benjamin Franklin Bache, no. 112, rue de Marche/a1, [1797]

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

French

2 sheets ([16]p.) ; 1⁰.

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.

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Evans, 33249
English Short Title Catalog, W9.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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