I was wondering, at that price, if this was a leather-bound edition on acid-free paper, printed on a handpress. But, then, I thought if this was so, then the publisher would have proudly announced it.
However, I see that it is a 153 page paperback with 159 illustrations. It is hard to imagine how there is room for any text, much less a careful analysis of the Unas Pyramid Texts and materials through the Ptolemaic period.
If it is primarily a collection of Tarot-like Egyptian images, I believe I can match that pretty easily with comparable imagery taken on my two trips to Egypt. Unfortunately, these are more in the nature of archetypal symbols found in almost every culture.
For those who want to know more about the texts in the Unas Pyramid at Saqqara - look here:
http://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/
http://www.pyramidtextsonline.com/photographs.html
This text is, I believe, the oldest version of what became the Book of the Dead. But, what is even more interesting is that the tomb contains magical spells in a 5,500 year old Semitic (Canaanite) language (written in Egyptian hieroglyphs) calling on "Divine Mother Snake" to ward off other snakes. Read this fascinating article:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070205-snake-spells.html
And, if you want a comparative explanation of meanings perceived in the text since their discovery, look here (the Unas text is discussed from about halfway through the very long page):
http://maat.sofiatopia.org/wenis.htm
Also, I found it rather strange that the "pre-Renaissance origins of Tarot" are linked with the imagery of the 17th century French Marseille deck and not with the earliest 15th century Italian decks.
This is definitely a book I'd like to see - but not for $60 - especially when the majority of the text and photos are probably found in the material to which I've linked above.
As an aside - I really like these distinctions in terminology made by the author, Wim van den Dungen, at
http://maat.sofiatopia.org :
"Parapsychology, comparative religions and mysticology allow us to distinguish between psi-events (parapsychology), occultism (knowledge of the invisible worlds between heaven and Earth) and mysticism (direct, radical experience of the Divine, the "totaliter aliter"). . . . In Ancient Egypt, the variety of ecstatic experiences may be classified as personal piety (offerings, prayers, festivals, mystery plays), magic (psi-events), the occult (initiation, entering and leaving the Duat) and mysticism proper."