P. Gasparis Schotti e Societate Jesu, Schola steganographica, : in classes octo distributa, quibus, præter alia multa, ac jucundissima, explicantur artificia nova, queis quilibet, scribendo epistolam qualibet de re, & quocunque idiomate, potest alteri absenti, eorundem artificiorum conscio, arcanum animi sui conceptum, sine ulla secreti latentis suspicione manifestare; & scriptam ab aliis eâdem arte, quacunque linguâ, intelligere, & interpretari ... Cum figuris æri incisis, & privilegio.

Contains musical cyphers (p. 323-326).
Includes a section on musical notation, with text figures.
Added t.p. engraved with year 1665, the date of the first edition.
Added engraved t.p. reads: Schola steganographica P. Gaspar: Schotti Soc: Iesu. Combinatio tabellarum steganographicarum. Sumptibus Iohannis Andreæ Endteri, et Wolffgangi Iunioris Hæred: Anno M.DC.LXV.
Half title: P. Gasparis Schotti Societatis Jesu, Schola steganographica.
The third publisher statement follows the date of publication.
Title printed in red and black; head-pieces, tail-pieces, initials. Plates engraved.
"Ad Serenissimum S.R.I. Principem Ferdinandum Maximilianum Marchionem Badensem"--T.p., with his coat-of-arms on t.p. verso, followed by Schott's "Dedicatio".
Includes index.
Dedication, dated 1665, to Ferdinand Maximilian, margrave of Baden Baden (1625-1669); with his engraved coat of arms.