WAGNER Wilhelm, “HELLAS. Das Land und Volk der alten Griechen. Bearbeitet für Freunde des klassischen Alterthums, insbesondere für die deutsche Jugend” 2 volumes, Leipzig: Verlag v. Otto Spamer, 1859. FIRST EDITION of Wagner’s influential work on history of Greece that continued to be published for more than 50 years. . 12mo, pp.304 +246. With frontispieces, numerous illustrations in woodcut and a folding map of Greece. Text in German. Original publishers illustrated binding, blind-stamped in gilt. Sunned, bumped corners, spotting inside, cut of the lower margin part of title page of the 2nd volume.