Schlumberger (gustave) - The Byzantine Epic At The End Of The Tenth Century. 1905.

SCHLUMBERGER (Gustave) - The Byzantine Epic at the end of the tenth century. War against the Russians, the Arabs, the Germans, the Bulgarians civil strife against the two Bardas. Jean Tzimiscès, the young years of Basil II, The killer of bulgares (969-989). The Porphyrogenetes Zoe and Theodora, reign of Constantine VIII of Zoe with her first husband Roman III Argyros, her second husband Michael IV the Paphlagonian her adopted son Michael V, the Kalaphate her sister Theodora her third husband finally Constantine IX Monomaque of Téodora, Michael VI Stratiotikos, advent of Isaac Comnenus (1025-1057). Paris, Hachette, 1905; in-4, IV-800 + VI-655 + VIII-849 pp., full black Jansenist shagreen bindings, spine with five nerves, fillets on covers, all edges painted red. The 3 volumes. The author was originally from Alsace, a specialist in the Crusades and the Byzantine Empire. Member of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Letters and President of the Society of Antiquaries of France. This copy contains the notice on the life and works of Mr. Gustave-Léon Schlumberger by René Cagnat. Many illustrations in and inset.