After retiring from his post after 14 years in office, he wrote a two-volume history of the university.

He has since gone on to write 11 books, including a two-volume history of Hancock Point.

A magnificent two-volume history of playing cards, published in France in 1906, is $1,200.

He published many scientific works, among them a two-volume History of Descriptive Astronomy in 1873.

It's delicious bits like these that make the thousand pages of Ferguson's monumental two-volume history not just instructive but positively engaging.

In 1929 his is doctoral thesis became a two-volume History of French Colonial Policy (1870-1925).

Petre wrote a two-volume history of the Norfolk Regiment, the second volume of which was published a month before his death.

He wrote a two-volume History of the United States Capitol (1901 and 1904) and more than 100 articles.

He wrote a two-volume history of the anti-Fascist resistance in Florence, where he took part in the 1944 uprising.

Perhaps most widely read today is Davidson's two-volume history: The Tennessee (1946 and 1948), in the Rivers of America series.