Müller’s Catalogue of the Thorvaldsen Museum

[Thorvaldsen, Bertel]. Müller, L. FORTEGNELSE OVER DE ANTIKE MYNTER I THORVALDSENS MUSEUM. Kjöbenhavn: Trykt I det Berlingske Bogtrykkeri, 1850. First edition. 8vo, later blue cloth with decorative sides; red spine label, gilt. (6), iv, (14), 371, (1) pages; 4 lithographic plates of coins. Some foxing; else a fine copy. The very scarce first edition of this substantial catalogue, better known by the French edition published the following year. Babelon 204: “The famous Danish sculptor Thorvaldsen left his collections and work to Copenhagen in 1844; in 1847 one of [Peter Oluf] Bröndsted’s students, Ludwig Müller (1809–1891) was given the task of creating the Thorvaldsen Museum. In 1851 [referring to the French edition], Ludwig Müller published a catalogue of the ancient coins in the museum; he went on to resume and then complete Brondsted’s outstanding projects, publishing, in 1855, a numismatic study of Philip, Alexander and Lysimachus.” Leitzmann 94 (listing only the 1851 French edition).