The World-Wide Traveller's Cipher Code For Foreign and Domestic Use by Hartfield, T. Walter - 1901

C. Armory Stevens. Good+. 1901. First Edition :. Hardcover. 12mo in full leather with gilt lettering on front with gilt globes, large gilt lettering on spine, very clean-white unfoxed pages, none torn or marked, the covers have noticeable chipping at edges, lower spine, else G++. Contains about 28,000 ciphers and their meanings, useful for private telegraphic messages, outdoing inadequate code books of the time that can not communicate the thousands of every-day small events. Thousands of words and phrases, e. G. , "nigrabat" means 'will respond by wire', etc etc. A fascinating way of traveling, in secret.... Very uncommon, i. E. , scarce..... ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 507pp pages .