VASILIEV A.A. (1867-1953) Convolute of 2 books: Vizantiya i araby [Byzantium and the Arabs]. St Petersburg: I.N. Skorokhodov, 1900-1902.

1) Vizantiya i araby. Politicheskie otnosheniya Vizantii i arabov za vremya Makedonskoy dinastii [Byzantium and the Arabs. Political Relations between Byzantium and the Arabs during the Macedonian Dynasty. The Emperors Basil I, Leo VI the Wise and Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (867-959)]. St Petersburg: I.N. Skorokhodov, 1902. XII, 320, 220 pp.; 2) Vizantiya i araby: Politicheskie otnosheniya Vizantii i arabov za vremya Amoriyskoy dinastii [Byzantium and the Arabs: Political Relations between Byzantium and the Arabs during the Amorian Dynasty]. St Petersburg: I.N. Skorokhodov, 1900. XII, 210 pp.; [2], 183 pp.; 23 x 17 cm. (Proceedings of the Faculty of History and Philology of the Imperial St Petersburg University; Part 66). In a period composite binding. In good condition. Loss of a fragment of the title page (book 1), tear to the title page (book 2), minor soiling in the text block, foxing. Armorial bookplate of the English archaeologist, art historian and Byzantinist David Talbot Rice (1903-1972) on the endpaper. A lifetime edition of the work of Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev (1867-1953), an outstanding Byzantine historian and Arabist and professor at Yuryev University. In 1901 he defended his master’s dissertation ‘Political Relations between Byzantium and the Arabs during the Amorian Dynasty’, and in 1902 his doctoral dissertation ‘Political Relations between Byzantium and the Arabs during the Macedonian Dynasty (867-959)’. After the Revolution he lived in emigration. A.A. Vasiliev’s comprehensive works on the history of Byzantium gained international recognition, becoming among the most important in Byzantine studies worldwide, and were reprinted many times in various languages.