The Mensa Isiaca. Engraved plate number onefrom Thesaurus Hieroglyphicorum.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 another 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...
