Heinrich Schliemann: Troja: Ergebnisse meiner neuesten Ausgrabungen.Leipzig 1884 First edition, in large 8vo,contemporary publishers nicely decorated hard covers,spine sunned,text clean and bright,complete 462p. and 8 plates,overall in very good condition Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) published in this account what he considered to be the final, definitive statement on his life’s work on the discovery of Troy.By 1884, Schliemann had been digging at the mound of Hisarlik in Anatolia for over a decade. While his earlier works,like the Trojanische Altertümer (1874),were filled with the raw excitement of discovery and the famous Priam's Treasure, the 1884 Leipzig edition represents a more mature, scientific approach. This is the crucial moment in Schliemann's career where he teamed up with the architect Wilhelm Dörpfeld. Dörpfeld brought professional stratigraphic methods to the site, helping Schliemann realize that Troy was not one city, but nine cities layered on top of one another. In this book, Schliemann corrects many of his earlier mistakes. He famously although incorrectly had identified the Second City as Homer's Troy; in this book, he begins to shift his focus, providing the evidence that would eventually lead to the identification of Troy VI or VIIa as the Homeric layer. This edition contains the first truly accurate topographical maps of the Troad and the stratigraphic plans of the Hisarlik mound.The inclusion of a preface by the famous Oxford professor Archibald Sayce gave the work the academic seal of approval that Schliemann desperately craved.