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Alberti, L.B. Trattati in cifra Rome: 1740

Alioni, J.G. Opera Jucunda Astenis 1521

August of Brunswick Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae libri IX Luneburg: Henrici fratrum, der Sternen bibliopolarum Lunaeburgensium, 1624

Bellato. G-B. Il vero modo di scrivere in cifra Venice: 1553 *B I 744

Another edition Brescia: 1564

Bibliander, Theodorus De ratione temporvm, christianis rebus & cognoscendis & explicandis accommodata Basle: 1551

Cardano, Girolamo De subtiltate libri XXI 1550, 1551, 1554 (twice), 1559, 1560 (twice), 1580, 1582 and French trans. 1556

----------------------De rerum Varietate libri XVII 1556/7/8, 1580/1

Comiers, Claude Traite de la parole, langues, et ecritures Brussels: Leonard, 1691

Dalgarno, George Ars signorum London: Hayes

----------------------Tables of the Universal Oxford: Leonard Lichfield, 1657

Dictionnaire des Monogrammes et chiffres Rebus Paris: 1750/62

du Carlet, J-R. La cryptographie Toulouse: 1644

Friderici, Johannes Balthasar Cryptographia Hamburg: Georg Rebenlein 1685.

Kircher, Athanasius Polygraphia 1663

La Fin, Charles de Sermo mirabilis London, Salusbury, 1692

Lassenius, Johann Verlilebte Sulamithin / Oder Heilige Betrachtungen Copenhagen: J.J. Bornheinrich, 1699

Liceti, Fortunio Ad alas amoris trrnoris divini a Simmia Rhodio compactus Padua: Crivellarius, 1640

----------------------Ad aram lemniam Dosiadae ..encyclopedia Paris: Cottard, 1635

----------------------Ad epei securim enclyclopaedia Bologna: Montii, 1637

----------------------Ad syringam a Theocrito compactam et inflatam encyclopaedi Udino: Schiaratti, 1655

----------------------Ad syringam Publilianum encyclopaedia Padua: Pasquaium et Bertolum, 1635

----------------------Ailegoria peripatetica de generatione Padua: Crivellarius, 1630

----------------------Encyclopaedia ad aram pythiam Publilii Optatiam Porphyrii Padua: Crivellarius, 1630

----------------------Encyclopaedia ad aram my Mysticam Nonarii Terrigenae Padua: Crivellarius, 1630

----------------------Imitationes figurali metri a Simmia Rhodhio inventi Padua: Crivellarius, 1627

Margolin, Jean-Claude, and jean Ceard Rebus de la Renaissance: Des Images qui Parlent France: Maisonneuve et Larose

Miller, Ludwig Heinrich Mysterium Artis Steganographicae Ulm: 1682

Niceron, J-Fr. L’interprétation des chiffres Paris 1641

Palatino, Giovanni Battista Libro Nuovo Rome: Gionfa, 1540

Very popular writing manual contains a rebus.

Platt, Sir Hugh The Jewell House of Art and Nature London: Peter Short, 1594

Porta, J-B. de furtivis litterarum notis Naples: 1563 * B IV 826

Further editions in Venice 1602 and Strasbourg 1606 with additions and the title De occultis litterarum notis. Also reprinted in 1591/3, 1602 (twice) and 1603/6. Counterfeit edition published in England London: Wolfe, 1591. English edition on secret notation for letters, 1563.

Scaliger, J.C. Exotericarum Exercitatonum liber XVLutetiae: Michael Vascosanus, 1557

Reprinted 1560, 1572, 1592. This was a 1220 page commentary on Cardano's work above.

Schott, Caspar Schola steganographica Nurenberg: 1665 *B V 219

Selenus, Gustavus Cryptomenytices Et Cryptographiae Lunaeburgi: Stern, 1624

Silvestro, Jac. Opus novum pro cipharis interpretandis Rome: 1525 *B V 388

Simonetta, Sicco Regulae...litteras Zitteratas

Sternii, 1624

The first encyclopedia of cryptographic methods. http://www.esotericarchives.com/tritheim/stegano.htm

Tabourot, Etienne, Seigneur des Accords Les Bigarrures et Touches Paris: Maucroy, 1662

Trithemius, Johannes Steganographia Frankfurt: Beckeri, 1606

Another edition Mogvntiae: Muchleri, 1676

------------------------------Steganographiae Cologne: Egmond, 1635

Another edition Cologne: Egmond, 1687

------------------------------Polygraphia Oppenheim: de Aia, 1518 *B V 960

Other editions 1500, Frankfurt 1550, Paris: Jaques Kerver 1561, Darmstadt 1621 with the title Steganographia(?)

------------------------------Cryptomentyces et cryptographiae libri IX ed. Gustaphus Selenus, Luneburg:

Tylkowski, Adalbert Arithmeticae Curiosae Krakow, 1688

First edition. Second edition 1689.

Vigenère, Blaise de Traité de Chiffres Paris: 1587

Another edition Paris: Angelies, 1580