MOMMSEN (Theodor). Die unteritalischen Dialekte. Mit siebzehn Tafeln und zwei Karten. Leipzig, Georg Wigand, 1850, in-4, with 19 plates mounted "in fine" on tabs (including 17 plates of inscriptions and two maps), havana half calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and dotted lines, cream title page, speckled edges (period binding). A very important work, both philological and epigraphic, on South Italian dialects (Indo-European languages of ancient Italy, apart from Latin dialects), for which Mommsen was, as in many other fields, a precursor. (Spine entirely unstained).