LUDWIG ROSS: ARCHAEOLOGISCHE AUFSATZE. LEIPZIG 1855-1861 First edition, in 8vo, complete in two volumes 286p.,690p. And 15 plates, several folded and with fine colors, contemporary leather over boards not uniform, text and plates clean and bright with very few light scattered spots in few pages Ross, a pioneer of Greek archaeology who traveled all around Greece for many years and executed the first systematic archaeological researches in the country, prepared those two volumes for more than a decade. They contain the full corpus of his extensive archaeological finds all over Greece for more than twenty years.Some of the plates are in beautiful chromolithography, a technique that just started that time and helped depicting nicely the ancient Greek art. A monumental work for the early Greek archaeology.