Selenus gustavus (11 Ergebnisse)

Leinen. Zustand: Gut. 83 S.: Ill.; 19 cm Zustand: Leinen ohne Schutzumschlag, gering fleckig, Papier gebräunt, Reprint, Frakturschrift --- Inhalt: über Schack, mit einer ausklappbaren Tafel NUß1-6 ISBN: 9783858830289 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 200 Fotomechan. Neudr. [d. Ausg.] Frankfurt, ca 1690.…

geb. Zustand: Gut. 83 S. : Ill. ; 19 cm Exemplar mit Gebrauchsspuren (das kann heißen: das Buch KANN normale Leseverformung wie Knicke am Buchrücken, oder leichte Nachdunklung o. ä. haben oder auch, obwohl unbeschädigt, als Mängelexemplar gekennzeichnet sein, ferner können auch Notizen oder Unterstreichungen im Text vorhanden sein. Alles dies zählt zur Kategorie des GUT ERHALTENEN). In jedem Falle aber dem Preis und der Zustandsnote entsprechend GUT ERHALTEN. und ACHTUNG: Die Covers können vom abgebildeten Cover und die Auflagen können von den genannten abweichen AUSSER bei meinen eigenen Bildern (die mit den aufrechtstehenden Büchern vor schwarzem Hintergrund, wie auf einer Bühne) MEINE EIGENEN BILDER SIND MASSGEBEND FÜR AUFLAGE, AUSGABE UND COVER w-002c-0423 KEIN VERSANDKOSTENRABATT !!! Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 450 Fotomechan. Neudr. [d. Ausg.] Frankfurt, ca 1690.…

4°. Kunstleder. 495 S. mit Abb. Ränder leicht gebräunt, ansonsten sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 3100.

Folio (194 x 303 mm). (30), 495, (3) pp., party interleaved. Five parts in one volume. General title, first divisional title and title of the fifth part (Rythmomachia) within engraved borders, three remaining divisional titles within woodcut borders. With a folding engraved plate by Jacob van der Heyden, two full-page plates of rithmomachy positions, and a double-page letterpress table. Numerous engraved diagrams (some full-page) and illustrations of chessmen in the text, woodcut head- and tailpieces, and woodcut initials. Early 19th century English calf, covers diced and blindstamped within gilt rules, spine gilt, edges gilt. First edition, second issue, of the first German instruction book for chess players, a title reissue of the 1616 printing with only the date on the general title altered. - The book adapts and reorganises earlier continental material, including an Italian tradition ultimately dependent on Ruy López, while preserving valuable evidence for the laws and practices of chess current in the German lands. Duke Augustus devotes notable attention to Courier chess, the medieval variant long popular in German-speaking regions, and cites its survival at Ströbeck near Halberstadt alongside other local forms of the game. The fifth and final part describes the number-game Rithmomachy, translated (as stated on its separate title) from Francesco Barozzi's Venetian treatise of 1572, and positioned here as a learned adjunct to the art of play. - The illustrative programme is unusually rich for the genre, culminating in the folding engraved plate of the young Duke winning at chess: a discreet emblem of princely erudition and the bookish court culture that also produced the great Wolfenbüttel library. - Some early underlining and marginal markings in ink. Light browning due to paper quality, half-title and title slightly spotted and dust-soiled, occasional spotting elsewhere. Binding slightly rubbed and rebacked preserving spine (small loss made good at foot). - 1. "Peter Peterse[n]", ownership inscription (shaved at fore-edge) dated 1714 at foot of general title. - 2. Royal Library, Berlin (18th century circular stamp on verso of title-page and circular red sale stamp). - 3. Jacob Henry Sarratt (1772-1819), presentation inscription on front flyleaf to his pupil William Lewis, dated November 1816. - 4. William Lewis (1787-1870), with extensive chess notation and notes on inserted leaves. - 5. J. W. Rimington-Wilson (1822-77), ownership inscription and note; Sotheby's, 28 Feb. 1928, lot 437, to Quaritch (against Maggs). - 6. Bernard Quaritch, Cat. 428 (1929), no. 1322. - VD 17, 39:125792Z. Faber du Faur 422a. Van der Linde I, 349. Van der Linde, Das erste Jartausend der Schachlitteratur (1881), no. 2937. Schmid, Literatur des Schachspiels, p. 116-118. Zollinger, Bibliographie der Spielbücher, 68. Ann E. Moyer, The Philosophers' Game. Rithmomachia in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Ann Arbor, 2001), p. 120. Hausmann & Kapp 83.…

Engraved title; charts including three folding charts and one folding plate of music, 11.5 x 7.5, bound in 19th century (?) gilt decorated boards, 491 pp, covers worn with hinges starting, extremities bumped and fraying, old bookplate (Ex-Bibliothec Zschuckiana), pp toned, some minor foredge wear else an exceptionally nice and usable volume. A much sought-after volume, the cipher illustrated on page 140 was used by Thomas Bokenham to solve the cipher on the statue of Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey (proving that Bacon authored Shakespeare's plays). Even the title page allegorical illustrations in this book are alleged to prove Bacon's authorship. A must-have for anyone with an interest in cryptography! One of the most important titles to have passed through our hands in a long time. (Gustavus Selenus is the pseudonym of Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg.).…

(EA, diese Ausgabe); ca 30x22 cm; (4) XIV, (26) 495 (3) Seiten mit zahlreichen Diagrammen, Tabellen und Abbildungen; Originalkunstledereinband mit Schutzumschlag (der Umschlag mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren; sonst sehr gutes Exemplar) Reihe: Tschaturanga. Darstellungen und Quellen zur Geschichte des Schachspiels. Herausgegeben von Viktor Kortschnoi und Klaus Lindörfer. Band 1. - Kein Versand nach Frankreich.…

Faksimile d. Ausg.. Lpz., 1616. 4°. XIV, 15 Bll., 495 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. OKunstldr. m. Goldpräg., OU. Mit Schuber. In gutem Zustand. - (Tschaturanga. Darstellungen und Quellen zur Geschichte des Schachspiels, hrsg. v. Viktor Kortschnoi u. Klaus Lindörfer, Bd. 1) Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.

19*11 cm. OLeinenband. 83 S. : Ill. Guter Zustand mit lediglich leichten Gebrauchsspuren. L16-4 ISBN 3858830283 Wichtiger Hinweis: Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung zur Zeit KEIN Versand in EU-Länder. Due to EPR, there is currently no delivery to EU-countries. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 300 Fotomechan. Neudr. [d. Ausg.] Frankfurt, ca 1690.…

Folio (190 x 300 mm). (36), 493, (1) pp., final blank leaf. Title-page set within an elaborately engraved pictorial border. With full-page engraving by Lucas Kilian (on p. 341), half-page engraving by Wolfgang Kilian (on p. 384), and an engraved illustration in the text (on p. 492); a large folding table; numerous woodcut or letterpress diagrams, tables, and musical scores in the text. Woodcut printer's device to colophon; woodcut and typographical head- and tailpieces, woodcut decorated initials. Bound in 18th century French red morocco with gilt fillets and the fine large gilt arms Jérôme Phélypeaux, count of Pontchartain and Maurepas, to both covers; sewn on 6 supports with raised spine bands, gilt spine title, compartments outlined with gilt fillets. Leading edges gilt; gilt inner dentelle; all edges gilt over marbling. Marbled endpapers. First and only edition of one of the most renowned works on cryptography written by Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579-1666), founder of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Dedicated to Emperor Ferdinand II and printed in Lüneburg at the author's expense by the brothers Johann and Heinrich Stern, this book is a comprehensive survey of various cryptographic techniques and methods of code-breaking, comprising for example steganography (the hiding of a message in a larger text) and encryption in musical scores. It is profusely illustrated with tables and schemes of alphabets and ciphers encoded in numerous variations, occasionally including signs of the zodiac. The text, divided into nine books, is partly based on the famous "Steganographia" of the German Benedictine abbot Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516), which was first published in Frankfurt in 1606. The third book contains the unfinished part of Trithemius's enigmatic text, whose the secret code was deciphered only late in the 20th century. - The intriguing engraved title border is generally regarded as the first pictorial clue in the controversial Baconian theory of Shakespearean authorship, which contends that the English philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was the true author of the plays written by William Shakespeare. One scene suggests Francis Bacon handing over a text to a man holding a spear (meaning Shakespeare), and another suggests Augustus II holding the "Cap of maintenance" above the head of Francis Bacon writing at his desk. Some authors believe this work to be a cryptographic twin to Bacon's "De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum" and Shakespeare's First Folio, both published in 1623. - Augustus II, born as the seventh child of Henry III, Duke of Brunswick-Dannenberg (1533-98), studied at the Universities of Rostock, Tübingen, and Strasbourg. After his Grand Tour of Italy, France, the Netherlands and England, he settled in 1604 in his residence in Hitzacker, continuing his studies for the next three decades. Under his pseudonym Gustavus Selenus he wrote an influential book on chess, "Das Schach- oder Königsspiel" (first published in Leipzig in 1616). He was one of the most learned men of his time and maintained a correspondence with the German theologian Johannes Valentinus Andreae (1586-1654), one of the founders of the Rosicrucian movement at the beginning of the 17th century. - Slightly browned throughout due to paper stock; three oversized leaves (pp. 185-190) folded in. A few small white paint spots to upper cover of the binding, otherwise in excellent condition. - From the library of the great French bibliophile Paul Girardot de Prefond (1722 - ca. 1785) with his engraved armorial bookplate mounted on the first flyleaf. Girardot de Préfond assembled two successive libraries: he sold his first one in 1757 to create a new, more carefully curated collection. This second library, distinguished by volumes beautifully bound by Padeloup, Boyet, and Derome, was later sold in its entirety, under pressure from creditors, to Count Justin MacCarthy Reagh. Books from the first collection usually bear Girardot de Préfond's name in gilt, and more often his armorial bookplate on one of the endpapers. Several examples later entered collections so renowned as those of the Duke de La Vallière, Gaignat, and Nodier (cf. Brunet, Manuel du libraire II, 553f.; Esprit des livres). The 1757 catalogue (Catalogue des livres du cabinet de M. G D P, Guillaume-François de Bure le jeune, p. 74) does not record a price for this specific book; however, during a later sale held from 20 February to 17 March 1800 at one of the Silvestre halls, Rue des Bons-Enfants, this copy from Girardot's library was offered as Lot 1277 (Gustavus Selenus (Augustus, Duke of Brunswick), Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae, libri IX. Lüneburg, 1624, folio, illustrated, in red morocco, ex libris Girardot de Préfond), listed on p. 133 and priced at 4 livres/francs. - VD 17, 23:285820R. Caillet 10114 ("manque à la Bibliothèque nationale"). BM-STC German A1047. Galland, p. 166f. Shulman, p. 10. Wellcome 545. USTC 2135578. Folger II, p. 84. Faber du Faur 124. Graesse VI, 344. Brunet V, 270 ("Ouvrage curieux"). Not in Jantz.…

First edition. ONE OF THE MOST SPLENDID BOOKS ON CRYPTOGRAPHY. First edition, rare, of this encyclopaedic account of the science of cryptography as it was then practiced. It presents a comprehensive survey of encryption and code-breaking methods, including examples of substitution ciphers, musical ciphers, steganography (the embedding of secret messages in a larger text), graphical encryption in images, and other techniques, with chapters on everything from simple inverted and transposed alphabet codes to accounts of cryptography in music and the visual arts. "In 1624, August II, Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (afterwards Hanover) in Germany, issued Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae libri IX under the pseudonym Gustavus Selenus. This was a play on his name, Gustavus being an anagram (with the interchangable u and v of the time) of Augustus, and Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon, which is 'luna' in Latin, standing for Lüneburg. The duke, who was cousin to the grandfather of George I of England, is probably the highest-ranking author of a book on cryptology. He prefaced the almost 500 small-folio pages of his volume with 17 pages of tributes from his courtiers ('As, what night in dusty cloak conceals, bright Cynthia soon with torch full-flaming shows, / So, too, Gustavus now, Selenus called, uncovers things that time has long in shadow held')" (Kahn, The Codebreakers, p. 154). Duke August, a "Wunder unter den Fürsten" (miracle among princes), was one of the most learned men of his time and founder of the Wolfenbüttel library, where some 180,000 volumes and numerous manuscripts were assembled during his lifetime. At the same time he was the owner and curator of one of the largest cryptological collections of the 17th century. Duke August exchanged coded messages with Johann Valentin Andreae, mystic, utopian writer and the supposed 'founder' of Rosicrucianism. Basing his work on Trithemius' uncompleted Steganographia, August here presents hundreds of cryptographic systems. The folding table at the beginning is a synoptic diagram of all systems of encryptions contained in the book. "However, it is not this schema but rather the title page that has attracted the most interest in this volume; several scholars have claimed that hidden within the engravings is the key to discovering the real author of the Shakespeare plays. Theories as to the identity of the 'true' author of the Shakespeare corpus have long been a part of the study of the poems and plays and have often been expressed by well-respected scholars of Elizabethan literature, especially during the early decades of the 20th century" (;/a>). "A good indicator of the state of cryptology in Germany in the first quarter of the century is the 496-page compendium on secret communication that Duke August the Younger of Brunswick-Ltineburg (1579-1666) published in 1624. The young prince, who originally had no hopes of ruling the duchy, devoted his early life to scholarly pursuits, wrote a book on chess in 1616, and in the 1590s laid the foundation to what in 1666 had become one of the largest collections of books and manuscripts of his day. In 1624, he published Cryptomenytices et Cryptographiae Libri IX, which was issued under the pseudonym of Gustavus Selenus. It began as a defence and explication of the two works of Trithemius and ended up being the earliest manual of cryptology. With almost two hundred pertinent primary books and manuscripts in his possession, Duke August made use of just about all the authors and analysed the entire body of cryptologic material from ancient times to the 1621 plagiarism of Vigenère's Traicté . "The Wolfenbtittel duke included the first and second editions of the earliest major cryptologic treatise written in German, Daniel Schwenter's Steganologia & Steganographia, both editions published under the pseudonym of Resene Gibronte Runeclus Hanedi in the 1610s. Schwenter, a professor of mathematics and Oriental languages at the Altdorf (Nuremberg) Academy, deemed it advisable not to reveal his authorship. He drew heavily on Italian source materials, in particular on Porta; his books focus on optical and acoustic telegraphs and even on telepathy and list various ways of communication by means of sympathetic inks. The two editions included in the Cryptomenytices and a later third one are well structured but do not add much new cryptologic matter. "For well over half a century, Duke August's encyclopedic compendium served as a cryptologic reference in the German area and beyond. Apart from the (mostly) successful elucidation of Books I and II of Trithemius' Steganographia, its primary value lay in the presentation of cryptologic source materials that simply were not accessible to most individuals, . including the 1593 Scotographia by Abram(o) Colorni. This 'Jew of Mantua', as he called himself, was in the service of the Hapsburg emperor Rudolph II at Prague, and his elaborate polyalphabetic substitution systems appealed to Duke August so much that no other author except Trithemius occupies more space in his compendium" (Strasser, pp. 297-298). The full-page engraving on p. 341 is a kind of visual summary of the work. "Selenus uses this illustration as a cumulative exercise for the student who has just worked through numerous examples of ciphers. In a kind of final exam, readers are challenged to notice the sheer volume of ciphers that could possibly be before them in a work of art or, even, out in the world in an everyday landscape. The Duke's subject is 'complete,' he notes, in the scope of a single scheme, expressing the key and the hidden principle of a great cryptographic device . "The illustration stresses the existence of ciphers in nature. The inhabitants of this image are surrounded by ciphers (and are also ciphers themselves). From the top to the bottom, readers see birds with wings and feet outspread in shapes that indicate meaning; fruits positioned in a tree that may align with an alphabetic key; windows in distant.…

Erste Ausgabe des klassischen Werkes über Schach, das erste gedruckte Schachbuch in deutscher Sprache. Dieses bedeutendste der frühen Werke zählt zu den schönsten Büchern über dieses Thema überhaupt. Es enthält den ersten deutschsprachigen Text über Schacheröffnung, dem eine Übersetzung von Ruy Lopez zugrunde liegt. Das Buch enthält auch viel über das Mittel- und Endspiel. Der große Wert des Buches "liegt in den ersten Kapiteln, die eine Geschichte des Schachs und eine ausführliche Literaturangabe zum Spiel beinhalten. Weiter sind Regeln, Spielverlauf und einzelne Partien nachzulesen. Das ikonographisch sehr interessante Titelkupfer (von Lucas Kilian?) zeigt Palamedes (oben bei der Belagerung Trojas) den legendären Erfinder des Schachs und Christoph Columbus (mit den Ei, unten). Beide tragen die Gesichtszüge des Herzogs. 'Rhythmo-Machia oder Vom Zahl-Kampf' ist wörtlich übersetzt ein Proportions-Kampf, ein Kampf der Zahlen untereinander. In Süddeutschland ist dieses Spiel bereits im 11. Jahrhundert nachgewiesen. Selenus greift bei seinen Ausführungen auf die italienische Fassung von Barozzi und auf die französische von Claude Boissière zurück. Dieses Brettspiel wird mit 4 verschiedenen Steinen gespielt, die ähnlich wie beim Schach aufgestellt werden. Ziel ist es, schnell im gegnerischen Feld eine harmonische (von der Zahlenordnung her) Reihenfolge von 3 Steinen aufzubauen und den anderen Spieler an eben dieser Aufgabe zu hindern" (Spielbücher und Graphik des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts. Katalog der Ausstellung in der Hochschulbibliothek [Mozarteum] in Salzburg, 1993, Nr 4). Die dargestellten Partien folgen Ruy Lopez' berühmtem Schachbuch; Buch 5 enthält die erste deutsche Ausgabe von Barozzis 'Rhytmomachia'. Der Verfasser (1579-1660), gelehrter Fürst und bekannter Schachspieler, steht mit seinem Onkel Herzog Julius am Anfang der berühmten Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel (Herzog August Bibliothek). Mit der berühmten doppelblattgroßen Tafel, die den Herzog beim Mattsetzen eines Gegners zeigt, sowie den beiden hier plano eingebundenen Tafeln zur Rythmomachie. Dem Buch fügte Herzog August seine erste deutsche Übersetzung der Rythmomachia des Francesco Barozzi (Venedig 1572) hinzu, ein pythagoreisches, obwohl mittelalterliches Zahlenspiel, das für seine Schwierigkeiten bekannt ist. Erster Druck der ersten Ausgabe, mit dem Druckfehlerverzeichnis auf der nicht numerierten Seite (496). Kupfertitel im unteren weißen Rand mit der Rasurstelle eines Namens; gering gebräunt. Selten, vor allem in einem kompletten, guten und breitrandigen Zustand wie hier. VD17 12:6527972E; Zollinger, Bibliographie der Spielbücher, I, 66; Schmid, Literatur des Schachspiels S. 116 ff.; Graesse VI 344; Van der Linde 2936 und Geschichte I 349-50; Herzog August-Katalog Wolfenbüttel 367 mit ausführlicher Darstellung der Druckgeschichte auf den Seiten 173 ff; Faber du Faur 422a.…