August Böckh: Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener.Berlin 1840 First edition, in 8vo,complete in three volumes,ex GREEK ROYAL COPY (inscriptions in all volumes front past down: ΙΔΙΑΙΤΕΡΑ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ ΤΗΣ Α.Μ. ΤΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΟΘΩΝΟΣ),contemporary fine leather over boards,spines richly gilt,upper joints slightly weak, text clean and bright,overall in almost fine condition. August Böckh was a titan of German scholarship,the father of modern philology,he was the man who used the data to reconstruct how an entire ancient civilization and a State actually functioned. He had incorporated the massive amount of new data discovered after the Greek Revolution. Before Böckh, people studied ancient Greece through poetry and philosophy. Böckh studied it through tax records, navy timber prices, mining leases, and customs duties. He provided a groundbreaking analysis of the state-owned silver mines that funded the Athenian navy.This invaluable work, how the ancient city state of Athens worked, naturally found its place at the library of the modern ruler in Athens in mid 19th century,the King Othon. A unique Royal Greek copy of a very important scientific account on the structures of ancient Athenian state.