‎Décryptage‎

‎"MÜNTER, FRIEDRICH. - DECIPHERING CUNEIFORM TEXTS.‎

‎Undersögelse om de persepolitanske Inscriptioner. (1.-) 2. Afhandling.‎

‎(København, Seidelin,1801). 4to. Uncut. No wrappers as issued in ""Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter"". Titlepage, pp. 253-292 + Titlepage, pp. 291-349 a. 1 folded engraved plate.‎

‎First printing of 2 importent memoirs, as Münter here gives an importent contribution to the deciphering of cuneiform texts.‎

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‎BRIAN FREEMANTLE‎

‎La CIA, les secrets de l'honorable compagnie.‎

‎1986 Plon, 1986, 233 pages, in 8 broché, très bon état.‎

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‎CHEVALIER, Jean - GHEERBRANT, Alain‎

‎Dictionnaire des Symboles. Mythes, rêves, coutumes, gestes, formes, figures, couleurs, nombres‎

‎1986 Editions Robert Laffont / Juputer, collection "Bouquins" dirigée par Guy Schoeller - 1986 - Edition revue et augmentée - In-8, broché - 1060 pages‎

‎Bon état - Menus frottements sur la couverture - Tranches jaunies‎

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‎DE RYNCK, Patrick.‎

‎HOW TO READ A PAINTING. DECODING, UNDERSTANDING AND ENJOYING THE OLD MASTERS.‎

‎UK, Thames & Hudson , 1989 Flexi, 240x170mm,, 416 pp., 1000 col.ill., English edition. FINE CONDITION !! ISBN 9780500512005.‎

‎This illuminating, anecdotal, portable book - with 1000 gorgeous colour illustrations - helps to fill in these gaps by decoding the imagery of more than 150 of the most influential and admired artworks of all time. Covering the works of the Italian, Dutch, German and Spanish Old Masters, from 1350 to 1750 - paintings by sych artists as Giotto, Botticelli, El Greco, Bruegel, Holbein, Rubens and Vermeer - 'How To Read A Painting' helps the viewer to understand the significant details of a picture and also explains the relationship with similar imagery in other works.‎

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‎Decoding the Past‎

‎In Search Of Real Frankenstein‎

‎A&E Home Video 2008-08-26. DVD. Very Good. Disc has slight mark from prev play tested skip-free. In case with art. A&E Home Video unknown‎

Référence libraire : 1811160030

‎FARAGO, Ladislas.‎

‎La Clef du Chiffre. Le decryptage du code japonais et Pearl Harbour.‎

‎P., Stock, 1968. in-8°, 252 pp, broche, couverture illustree plastifiee.‎

‎Bon etat. [TX-7]‎

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‎FONROY JH‎

‎La bataille des services secrets .‎

‎1958 Editions du milieu du monde 1958état d'usage, exemplaire de bibliothèque papier jauni 284 pages in 8 reliure cartonnée toilée avec quelques frottements et taches .‎

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‎GALLY LAURENT‎

‎L'agent noir .‎

‎1987 Robert laffont 1987 bon état 309 pages in 8 broché .‎

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‎Jacob, François :‎

‎Logique (La) du vivant. Une histoire de l’hérédité.‎

‎Paris, Gallimard N.R.F. (Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines), 1970 ; in-8, broché ; 354 pp., (3) ff. ; couverture blanche à rabats imprimée en rouge et vert.‎

‎Exemplaire en bon état.‎

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‎KIRCHER ATHANASIUS. ONE OF THE EARLIEST ATTEMPTS AT DECIPHERING HIEROGLYPHS‎

‎Sphinx Mystagoga Sive Diatribe Heroglyphica Qua Mumiae ex Memphitis Pyramidum adytis erutae & non ita pridem in Galliam transmissae juxta veterum Hieromystarum mentem intentionemque plena fide & exacta exhibetur INTERPRETATION Ad Inclyctos abstrusiorumque Cognitionum peritia instrctissimos Galliae Philologos directa.‎

‎Amsterdam Officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana 1676. Folio. Contemporary full mottled calf with five raised bands to richly gilt spine. A few larger dampstains to boards and corners bumped. With the engraved book plate of "Marchion Raymundi Sorbolunghi" to inside of front board. Browned throughout and a dampstain to last half. Woodcut title-vignette woodcut initials numerous large both half and 1/4 page and smaller woodcut text-illustrations throughout and 6 engraved text-illustrations mostly 1/3 page depicting mummies mummy-cases and various scenes. 16 72 6 pp. 5 engraved plates two of which are engraved three of which are folded. � The rare presumed first edition of Kircher's great work on Egyptian hieroglyphs one of the earliest attempts to decipher the signs in modern times. Although we now know that his results were wrong they were believed at the time Kircher was considered the ultimate authority on hieroglyphic writing and his works on the subject were greatly influential not least in creating a strong interest for the Egyptian language and culture resulting in numerous publications on the subject throughout the 18th century. To a certain extent it is also Kircher's theories that later generations built upon when attempting to crack the code of the hieroglyphs. <br><br>According to Graesse there should have been an earlier edition of the "Sphinx" printed the same year but in Rome. We have not been able to find any other references to this edition neither in other bibliographies nor in library holdings. OCLC merely records copies printed in Amsterdam. <br><br>In what we may call modern times Kircher is the third to attempt a deciphering of the hieropglyphic script the first being Veleriano with his "Hieroglyphica" of 1556 the second being Mercati in his 1590 supplement volume to his "Degli Obelischi di Rome" "but his explanations are worthless. The next scholar who tried to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs was Athanasius Kircher born at Geisa in 1601 died 1680 a German Professor of Mathematics in the Collegio Romano 1635-43. He was a man of untiring energy and vast learning but many of his writings suggest that he printed the contents of his notebooks without taking the trouble to digest them. He has been called "charlatan" and "impostor" by many writers but a careful perusal of even what now seem to be his most ridiculous and impossible pronouncements makes it difficult to believe that he was not sincere. Of course he was an enthusiast and he held his erroneous views and beliefs with great tenacity. In the matter of Egyptian hieroglyphs it is clear that he thought thtat every character represented an "idea". . All his "translations are equally nonsensical but those who believed that he could read Egyptian hieroglyphs expected him to produce from them mystical and magical information and like other blind leaders of the blind he did what he was wanted to do. He lived in an age of credulity and superstition and was a product of it. In spite of this he was a learned man and there is much interesting information in the six principal works by which he is best known viz. "Prodromus Coptus" Rome 1636; "Lingua Aegyptiaca restitute" Rome 1643; "Obeliscus Pamphilius" Rome 1650; "Obelischi Aegyptiaci" Rome 1666; "Sphinx Mystagoga" Amsterdan 1676; and "Oedipus Aegyptiacus" Amsterdam 1680". During the XVIIth century Kircher was regarded as a great Egyptologist and Sir J. Marshall made use of his writings in his "Canon Chronicus" published at Frankfort in 1696.<br>There seems to be no doubt that Kircher's writings gave an impetus to the study of the languages and antiquities of ancient Egypt and a great many books on these subjects appeared during the XVIIIth century." Budge pp. 187-89".<br><br>When the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher arrived in Rome in 1635 his reputation had long preceded him: among the twelve languages he claimed to command he included uniquely for his time the ability to read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. Kircher was furthermore one of the very first to attempt to learn Coptic. He namely claimed that Coptic descended from ancient Egyptian and thus held the key to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs. Today this theory is Kircher's greatest claim to fame within linguistics and Egyptology and had he stuck to research of this outline of a solution and not turned to guessing the meaning of the hieroglyphs he would probably have been celebrated as one of the earliest to contribute significantly to the deciphering of hieroglyphs rather than a "charlatan" and "impostor". For Kircher was quite correct in surmising that Coptic descended from ancient Egyptian and he was among the very first scholars to say so.<br> <br>Not only did Kircher excel in his Egyptological "research" and remain satisfied with presenting these to the world with his significant Egyptological publications "Sphinx" being one of them he also began an intensive search for the best typography that money could buy. He wanted better fonts better illustrations larger formats and his later publications like "Shinx" reflect the great success that come of this endeavour.<br><br>Brunet III:668; Graesse IV:22. hardcover‎

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‎MACWILLIAMS JESSIE. FIRST PUBLICATION OF PERMUTATION DECODING‎

‎Permutation Decoding of Systematic Codes.‎

‎New York American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1964. 8vo. Volume XLIII 63 January Number 1 part 2 1964 of "The Bell System Technical Journal". In the original blue printed wrappers. Previous owner's stamps to front wrapper. A part from minor light spotting to front wrapper a very nice and clean copy. Pp. 485-505. Entire issue: Pp. 339-563. � First publication of MacWilliam's important paper on permutation decoding.<br>"MacWilliams 1917-1990 was a mathematician who contributed to the field of coding theory. She was born in Stoke-on-Trent England and studied at the University of Cambridge receiving her BA in 1938 and her MA in the following year. She spent most of her career at Bell Labs where she worked on error-correcting codes and co-wrote 'The Theory of Error-Correcting Code with Neil Sloane'." Codings: Webster's Quotations 42 p.<br><br>The issue contains the following papers.<br>1. Darlington Sidney. Demodulation of Wideband Low-Power FM Signals. Pp. 339-374.<br>2. Froehlich F.E.; Anderson R.R. Data Transmission over a Self-Contained Error Detection and Retransmission Channel. Pp. 375-398.<br>3. Sunde E.D. Intermodulation Distortion in Analog FM Troposcatter Systems. Pp. 399-435.<br>4. Harris S.E.; DeGrasse R.W.; Schulz-Dubois E.O. Cutoff Frequencies of the Dielectrically Loaded Comb Structure as Used in Traveling-Wave Masers. Pp. 437-484.<br>5. MacWilliams Jessie. Permutation Decoding of Systematic Codes. Pp. 485-505.<br>6. Gordon Eugene I. Optical Maser Oscillators and Noise. Pp. 507-539.<br>7. Wood Elizabeth A. The 80 Diperiodic Groups in Three Dimensions. Pp. 541-559. unknown‎

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‎MCLAUGHLIN Philip‎

‎Altermanager, mode d'emploi. Réflexions sur l'enseignement du management.‎

‎Couverture souple. Broché. 230 pages.‎

‎Livre. Editions Descartes et Cie, 2011.‎

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‎MUNTER FRIEDRICH. DECIPHERING CUNEIFORM TEXTS.‎

‎Unders�gelse om de persepolitanske Inscriptioner. 1.- 2. Afhandling.‎

‎K�benhavn Seidelin1801. 4to. Uncut. No wrappers as issued in "Det Kongelige danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter". Titlepage pp. 253-292 Titlepage pp. 291-349 a. 1 folded engraved plate. � First printing of 2 importent memoirs as M�nter here gives an importent contribution to the deciphering of cuneiform texts. unknown‎

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‎Nemrod Jacques‎

‎Le Mal européen LE SURPRENANT TROMPE-L'il DE "L'ACTE UNIQUE"‎

‎Rivages / Les Echos In-8°,272 pages,bon ensemble.‎

‎Bon Etat N'hésitez jamais à nous joindre directement. Réponse immédiate pour d'autres titres non répertoriés sur LRB . Franco de port pour la France par MONDIAL RELAY dés 30 euros pour les ouvrages modernes . Paiement immédiat par Paypal . Chèques ( fractionnement possible) et virement acceptés. Nous accompagnons toutes les étapes de vos achats. Achat et déplacement France Suisse pour vos propositions de ventes ( chiffrages et partages) .‎

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‎P.F DE VILLEMAREST‎

‎La terreur en URSS, le Guepeou contre l'Internationale Communiste, le NKVD.‎

‎1978 Le Cercle des Bibliophiles Contemporains Editions Ferni, collection Les Pourvoyeurs du Goulag, 1978, 253 pages, in 12 reliure éditeur cartonnée skaivertex vert, titres et motifs en dorure, très bon état.‎

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‎REMY GERARD LE MAREC‎

‎Secrets et réussites de l'espionnage français : De la restauration à l'appel du 18 juin (tome 1).‎

‎Editions Famot, 1983, 250 pages, in 12 reliure éditeur cartonnée skaivertex (noir) à motifs en dorure, bon état.‎

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‎Schott, Gaspar‎

‎Schola Steganographica.‎

‎Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri & Wolfgangi Junioris Hæredum 17 x 22 Norimbergae ( Nuremberg) 1665 Schola Steganographica, in classes octo distributa, quibus, praeter alia multa, ac jucundissima, explicantur artificia nova, queis quilibet, scribendo epistolam qualibet de re, et quocunque idiomate, potest alteri absenti, aerundem artificiorum conscio, arcanum animi sui conceptum, sine ulla secreti latentis suspicione manifestare; et scriptam ab aliis eadem arte quacunque lingua, intelligere, et interpretari. In-4, Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri & Wolfgangi Junioris Hæredum. Excudebat Jobus Hertz Typographus Herbipol. 1665, Prostant Norimbergæ apud dictos Endteros. Plein veau d'époque, dos à cinq nerfs, pièces de titre, filets dorés, petite dentelle d'encadrement sur les plats, coupes guillochées. Frontispice gravé (J.F.F.) - faux titre - titre rouge et noir - page aux armes gravées de Ferdinandus Maximilianus, marquis de Bade, en verso - [5 ff. dedicatio] - [3 ff. Insignia Serenissimae Domus Badensis Symbolicè explicata] - (1p. Facultas] - [5 p. Prooemium] - [6 ff. Synopsis Operis, incluant 2 ff. contenant le "Catalogus librorum" et "Lectori meo" reliés entre les deux derniers feuillets du Synopsis] - 346 pp. - [2 ff. Index rerum praecipuarum], 8 tableaux dépliants, nb. tableaux ou figures gravés in texte, belles lettrines. Rare première édition du traité de stéganographie du jésuite allemand Gaspar Schott (1608-1666). L'ouvrage traite de l'art de communiquer secrètement. Il est composé de huit chapitres. Le premier est consacré aux tables de Trithémius (1462-1516) et à sa méthode de chiffrement. Les suivants s'appuient sur les travaux linguistiques du Père jésuite Athanase Kircher (1602-1680), dont Schott fut le collaborateur, et tout particulièrement de sa "Polygraphia" parue en 1663. Dans le dernier chapitre, Schott introduit la stéganographie par partition musicale, qui consiste à coder le message secret en utilisant des notes de musique. "L'un des plus curieux livres sur l'art d'écrire en chiffres", Caillet, 1000è, citant l'édition de 1680. Pièces de titre déchirées, mais reliure correcte, notations d'époque à l'encre noire sur la page de garde et rature en haut du frontispice, petite déchirure en bas de la page de faux titre, bien complet des différents tableaux (dont deux roussis) et figures, quelques rousseurs sans conséquence. Ex-libris imprimé en bas de la page de titre "bibliotheca del Excmo senor marques de Astorga" : la bibliothèque du marquis d'Astorga comte d'Altamira et duc de Sesa fut vendue à Paris en 1870.(AB4) PHOTOS NUMERIQUES DISPONIBLES PAR EMAIL SUR SIMPLE DEMANDE-DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST Livre‎

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‎Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Mero‎

‎The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Meroitic Script: Proceedings of the Symposium Held in Cairo from 28 January to 3 February 1974. General History of Africa Paris France 1.‎

‎1979-06-01. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown‎

Référence libraire : 9231016059 ISBN : 9231016059 9789231016059

‎Symposium on the Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Mero‎

‎The Peopling of Ancient Egypt and the Deciphering of Meroitic Script: Proceedings of the Symposium Held in Cairo from 28 January to 3 February 1974. General History of Africa Paris France 1.‎

‎Unipub 1979-06. Paperback. Good. Unipub paperback‎

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‎VENTRIS MICHAEL + JOHN CHADWICK. THE FIRST CORRECT DECIPHERING OF LINEAR B‎

‎Documents in Mycenaean Greek. Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabulary.‎

‎Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1956. 4to. In publisher's red full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Front hinge almost detached. Internally fine and clean. XXX 2 452 pp. � First edition of Ventris and Chadwick's exceedingly important work which constitutes the very first practical translation of Linear B a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek - the earliest form of the Greek language and certainly the earliest thorough discussion of Linear B translation. The decipherment of Linear B was not only of great interest to scholars and researchers but also profoundly influenced European cultural history and affected how to define 'The Cradle of Europe': It demonstrated a Greek-speaking Minoan-Mycenaean culture on Crete and presented Greek in writing some 600 years earlier than what was thought at the time.<br><br>Linear B was initially deciphered by Ventris and Chadwick between 1951 and 1953. They published they first theories is 1952 in a short paper a work which is still surrounded by much controversy; the present work is the first to contain what is generally accepted as the first thoroughly satisfying deciphering of Linear B. <br><br>In a BBC radio program in 1952 Ventris concluded that the tablets the ones translated in the present work were Greek and that there finally seemed to be a logical explanation to the mysterious signs: "One of the most interested listeners to the broad cast was a young Cambridge philologist specializing in Greek John Chadwick. At the time the Ventris theory was just the latest in a long line of supposed "solution" every one of which had failed. But Chadwick who had himself failed to read the tablets on the assumption that they were Greek was interested. On July 9 Chadwick wrote to Ventris congratulating him on the solution. They formed a close association and together wrote a report of the decipherment Their 1952-paper. It gave a decidedly confusing explanation of the decipherment. And it did not gather up all the loose ends." Kahn The Code Breakers P. 933.<br><br>"At the time in the early 50ies the Linear B tablets from Knossos in the island of Crete were considered to be the earliest documents in the Greek language. Now the ancient Greeks have been claimed by Hellenists from the late 18th century onwards to be the founders of European civilization all other peoples with an Indo-European linguistic heritage being excluded for some reason or another. In the description mankind's history the absence or presence of the art of writing is even used for making the rather haphazard distinction between prehistory and history. So one can very well imagine why the island of Crete in offering hospitality to the first writing Greeks was proclaimed . the cradle of Europe." Binsbergen Black Athena Comes of Age Pp. 102-3. hardcover‎

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‎VENTRIS MICHAEL + JOHN CHADWICK. THE FIRST CORRECT DECIPHERING OF LINEAR B‎

‎Documents in Mycenaean Greek. Three Hundred Selected Tablets from Knossos Pylos and Mycenae with Commentary and Vocabulary.‎

‎Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1956. 4to. In publisher's red full cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Hinges loose and cloth to lower part of hinges with tear. Lbrary stamp to verso of title page. Internally fine and clean. XXX 2 452 pp. � First edition of Ventris and Chadwick's exceedingly important work which constitutes the very first practical translation of Linear B a syllabic script that was used for writing Mycenaean Greek - the earliest form of the Greek language and certainly the earliest thorough discussion of Linear B translation. The decipherment of Linear B was not only of great interest to scholars and researchers but also profoundly influenced European cultural history and affected how to define 'The Cradle of Europe': It demonstrated a Greek-speaking Minoan-Mycenaean culture on Crete and presented Greek in writing some 600 years earlier than what was thought at the time.<br><br>Linear B was initially deciphered by Ventris and Chadwick between 1951 and 1953. They published they first theories is 1952 in a short paper a work which is still surrounded by much controversy; the present work is the first to contain what is generally accepted as the first thoroughly satisfying deciphering of Linear B. <br><br>In a BBC radio program in 1952 Ventris concluded that the tablets the ones translated in the present work were Greek and that there finally seemed to be a logical explanation to the mysterious signs: "One of the most interested listeners to the broad cast was a young Cambridge philologist specializing in Greek John Chadwick. At the time the Ventris theory was just the latest in a long line of supposed "solution" every one of which had failed. But Chadwick who had himself failed to read the tablets on the assumption that they were Greek was interested. On July 9 Chadwick wrote to Ventris congratulating him on the solution. They formed a close association and together wrote a report of the decipherment Their 1952-paper. It gave a decidedly confusing explanation of the decipherment. And it did not gather up all the loose ends." Kahn The Code Breakers P. 933.<br><br>"At the time in the early 50ies the Linear B tablets from Knossos in the island of Crete were considered to be the earliest documents in the Greek language. Now the ancient Greeks have been claimed by Hellenists from the late 18th century onwards to be the founders of European civilization all other peoples with an Indo-European linguistic heritage being excluded for some reason or another. In the description mankind's history the absence or presence of the art of writing is even used for making the rather haphazard distinction between prehistory and history. So one can very well imagine why the island of Crete in offering hospitality to the first writing Greeks was proclaimed . the cradle of Europe." Binsbergen Black Athena Comes of Age Pp. 102-3. hardcover‎

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