Athanasii Kircheri è Societ. Jesu, Sphinx mystagoga : sive Diatribe hieroglyphica qua mumiae, ex Memphiticis Pyramidum adytis erutae, & non ita pridem in Galliam transmissae, juxta veterum Hieromystarum mentem, intentionemque, plena fide & exacta exhibetur interpretatio : ad inclytos, abstrusiorumque cognitionum peritia instructissimos Galliae philologos directa.Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680Ussé, Cht̂eau d'anno MDCLXXVI.Bound with his Turris Babel ... Amstelodami, M DC LXXIX.Interpretation of the hieroglyphics traced on two "enveloppes de momies" brought from Egypt and preserved at the Château d'Ussé in Touraine. Another edition (with imprint : Romæ, ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi) published in the same year. cf. A. de Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1853, 1. sér., p. 431.Printer's device on the title page with motto: Vivitur ingenio.Signatures: +-++4A-K4 (K4 blank).text