The History of Rome - Theodor Mommsen (in four volumes) (1881)

The History of Rome. Translated, with the Author's Sanction and Additions, by William P. Dickson. With a Preface by Dr. Leonhard Schmitz. London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1880-81, four volumes, complete, 14 cms x 19.5 cms, stamps of previous owners to endpapers, overall condition: very good. .

'The Popular Edition'.  Complete five books bound in four volumes. Hardcovers, Pp. xv, 511; iv, 480; viii, 478; viii, 681. English text, Publisher's device to title-pages.

Volume II with a fold-out military map of Italy. Foot- and shoulder-notes. Appendices. Index in double columns to rear of vol. IV. Printed by William Clowes and Sons.

Contents:

Book I - The period anterior to the abolition of the monarchy;

Book II - From the abolition of the monarchy in Rome to the union of Italy;

Book III - From the union of Italy to the subjugation of Carthage and of the Greek states;

Book IV - The revolution;

Book V - The establishment of the military monarchy. 

Theodor Mommsen (1817 1903) was a German classical scholar, historian, jurist, journalist, politician and archaeologist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest classicists of the 19th century. He received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Literature for his historical writings, including The History of Rome, after having been nominated by 18 members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. He was also a prominent German politician, as a member of the Prussian and German parliaments. His works on Roman law and on the law of obligations had a significant impact on the German civil code.