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100 Years: The Kindig Collection - Session Two

Fri, Feb 9, 2024 09:00AM EST
Lot 680

A New Book of Cyphers; More Complete...

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A New Book of Cyphers; More Complete and Regular than Any yet Extant, by Colonel William Parsons, London: for the author, 1704, fifty numbered plates with six unnumbered at front and end. Provenance: (inscriptions) Thomas Cunningham, 1811; Fred R. Harrison, 1860.

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Condition

Contains several pages of builder's ledger accounts, beginning on front board and covering several pages verso, followed by several pages of manuscript practice. Last six pages verso contain manuscript practice and a poem. Front board detached but present, some foxing, toning.

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