The Classic Catalogue of the Berlin Cabinet

Imhoof-Blumer, F. [editor]. DIE ANTIKEN MÜNZEN NORD-GRIECHENLANDS, UNTER LEITUNG VON F. IMHOOF-BLUMER, HERAUSGEGEBEN VON DER KGL. AKADEMIE DER WISENSCHAFTEN. As follows: Pick, Behrendt. BAND I. ERSTER HALBBAND: DIE ANTIKEN MÜNZEN VON DACIEN UND MOESIEN. Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1898. xv, (1), 518, (4) pages; 20 fine plates of coins. Pick, Behrendt, and Kurt Regling. BAND I. ZWEITER HALBBAND, ABTHEILUNG I: DIE ANTIKEN MÜNZEN VON DACIEN UND MOESIEN. Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1910. (4), (519)–920 pages; 1 fine plate of coins, numbered 21. Münzer, Friedrich, and Max L. Strack. BAND II. ERSTER TEIL, HEFT I: DIE ANTIKEN MÜNZEN VON THRAKIEN. Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1912. vi, 308 pages; 8 fine plates of coins. Gaebler, Hugo. BAND III. ERSTE ABTEILUNG: DIE ANTIKEN MÜNZEN VON MAKEDONIA UND PAIONIA. Berlin: Georg Reimer, 1906. vii, (1), 196 pages; 5 fine plates of coins. [bound with] Gaebler, Hugo. BAND III. ZWEITE ABTEILUNG: DIE ANTIKEN MÜNZEN VON MAKEDONIA UND PAIONIA. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1935. viii, 234 pages; 40 fine plates of coins; advertising leaf. Bound in four volumes. 4to, later tan quarter or full morocco; hand-lettered spines with five raised bands. Spines somewhat worn; contents generally fine. A well-preserved set. Best described in Clain-Stefanelli’s Numismatics—An Ancient Science (pages 42–43): “Imhoof-Blumer’s name trails like a comet across the field of Greek numismatics.... Inspired by Theodor Mommsen’s idea of creating an extensive work on Greek coins as a companion to the ‘Corpus of Latin Inscriptions,’ the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin assigned to Imhoof-Blumer the direction of Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. Such a corpus was intended to supersede all publications on the subject by describing every known coin type of each city or province within a chronological sequence, with full attention given to all available source material. This dream of a corpus of all ancient Greek coins seems to have haunted numismatists since the early 16th century, when Wolfgang Lazius first proposed such a work. But it proved too ambitious even for the late 1800s, and despite competent scholars, this gigantic German work progressed very slowly until it finally came to a halt in the late 1930s.” The rare unnumbered final volume edited by Hans von Fritze is not present in this lot. Clain-Stefanelli 1806*, 2305*, 2368*, 2417*, and 2418*. Daehn 3247, 3614, 3620 and 3621.