Author: Schlumberger, Léon Gustave:
Title: L'épopée Byzantine à la Fin du Dixième Siècle: Jean Tzimiscès. Les jeunes années de Basile II, le tueur de Bulgares (969-989).
Description: [Paris]: Hachette & cie, 1896. 4to, pp. vi, 799, [I] + coloured frontispiece map + large folding map opposite p.202 + 9 further plates. Additional title-page on translucent paper, with similar leaf at rear. Many illustrations in the text, some of which are full page. Half brown sheep, spine gilt with raised bands, title tooled directly, brown marbled boards, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. A bit rubbed, endcaps and bands worn, some peeling at corners, light scratching and chipping to marbled paper, still very good. Illegible ownership inscription dated 1943 to endpaper. First, stand-alone volume in a sequence of three volumes on Byzantine epic poetry with the Series title: L'épopée Byzantine à la Fin du Dixième Siècle. The final volume was published in 1905.

Keywords: Middle Ages & Renaissance ;Late Antiquity & Byzantium


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