FOSSING, POUL.

The Thorvaldsen Museum. Catalogue of the Antique Engraved Gems and Cameos. 24 photographic plates showing 2009 gems. 4to, boards with paper spine label. Copenhagen, 1929 first edition of the complete collection of Bertel Thorvaldsen, the famous Danish sculptor who, while living in Rome, formed this prize collection which became the nucleus for the museum established in Copenhagen named in his honor. "In every way an excellent catalog with splendid photographic plates of very many casts taken from the gems and shown in actual size"--Sinkankas 2196.