Letters from Ludwig Pollak to Wilhelm Froehner, 1903-1925

The twentieth century as seen through the letters of Ludwig Pollak. A leading dealer on the Roman archaeological market, Pollak wrote to his revered friend and master Wilhelm Froehner over a twenty-year period, at a time of great change that shifted the axis of the world antiquarian trade from Europe to America, sweeping away a generation of Old World magnates and collectors