Handbücher der Alten Geschichte.  Erste Abteilung: Griechische Geschichte Bis Zur Schlacht Bei Chaironeia von Dr. Georg Busolt, 2 Vol., Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha, 1885, 623pp, 607pp, 3/4 leather, 6 x 9", 8vo

Fair condition.  Chipping and redrot on front and rear boards, particularly on front board of vol. 1 along fore edge.  Tips are bumped, some with exposed boards.  Front joint of vol. 1 is cracked.  Scuffing and chipping to spines, still legible.  Gilt dentelles on spines mostly intact.  Marginalia on front pastedowns of both volumes.  Provenance stamp on endpapers of both volumes (Ex bibliotheca gymnasia Regii Joachimici).  Toning throughout textblocks with some instances of age-staining.  Marginalia scattered throughout text blocks.  Please see photos.

Georg Busolt (13 November 1850 - 2 September 1920) was a German historian of Classical history, dealing mainly with Greek history.  Busolt had intended to cover the subject down to the Battle of Chaeroneia, but only got as far as the Peloponnesian War.  Despite that his work has sometimes become outdated, it still occupies an important place in the secondary literature, especially for the time of the Peloponnesian War, due to his extremely extensive annotations, which cover all the primary sources then known and the secondary literature up to his time.