Seattle pi (Stephen J. Gertz)
With some excellent illustrations. Thanks very much to David Petersen for the link.
No copies have come to auction within the last thirty-five years. OCLC/KVK note only seven copies in institutional collections worldwide, only one of which is complete, in the Bibliothéque National – France. But a complete copy recently appeared out of nowhere and into the marketlace, unheralded, without fanfare.The book is Thesaurus Hieroglyphicorum, published in 1610 by Johann (aka Hans) Georg Herwart von Hohenburg (1554-1622). It is one of the earliest works on Egyptology.
It is a book that profoundly influenced Athanasius Kircher, one of the most fascinating individuals of the seventeenth – or any other – century.
Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes