"Schlumberger (gustave) - A Byzantine Emperor In The Tenth Century, Nicephore Phocas. 1890."
SCHLUMBERGER (Gustave) - A Byzantine Emperor in the tenth century, Nicephore Phocas. Paris, Librairie Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1890; in-4, IV-781 pp., full Jansenist binding, spine with five nerves, fillets on covers, all edges painted red. The author was originally from Alsace, 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. Book illustrated with 4 chromolithographs, 3 maps and 240 engravings from the originals or from the most authentic documents.