LUDWIG ROSS:REISEN UND REISEROUTEN DURCH GRIECHENLAND, rEISEN IM PELOPONNES. BERLIN 1841 First edition (all published), in 8vo, contemporary leather over boards, complete 191p. and 4 lithographed plates including 2 maps, some light scattered spotting, overall in very good condition. Ross, a German archaeologist became the first Professor at the University of Athens and the chief Conservator of Greek Antiquities. He travelled all around Greece in the 1830s and looked for inscriptions and foundations, a pioneer of using ancient texts to identify specific ruins. He resigned after the revolution of 1843. The first scientific archaeological exploration of Peloponnese.