AUGUSTE PICARD, 1919. Book Condition: Very Good+ xi-247 pp, 15 plates and 4 atlases (including 2 unfolding). Text in French language. 8vo size: 18.5x12.5cm. Hardcover, Cover in very good condition. Leather cover, gilded spine. Pages clean with some age browning. All plates and maps in fine condition. Otherwise in fantastic condition. Charles Diehl, fine connoisseur of the Byzantine Empire, knows how to guide his reader through the mazes of the history of Byzantium. Confined between Europe and Asia, a major witness of the fall of Rome or champion of Christendom, this empire has often been wrongly denigrated. From the year 330, which marks the first fruits of the founding of Constantinople nicknamed the new Rome by Constantine the Great, on the fateful date of May 29, 1453, this work elaborated with precision and minutia, brings us back to life the great Byzantine epic. Seller Inventory #F102DIEHL