BYZANTINE. Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection, Vols. I-III (in five parts), together with Coinage and Money in the Byzantine Empire 1081-1261. Alfred R. Bellinger and Philip Grierson (eds.), Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., 1966-1969, with Michael F. Hendy (Dumbarton Oaks, 1969). Complete six-volume folio set in the original decorated blue cloth with gilt lettering, well illustrated with numerous plates of coins, with Hendy?s volume also including folded maps. A major and highly desirable Byzantine reference set, bringing together the standard Dumbarton Oaks catalogue sequence from Anastasius I to Nicephorus III across Vol. I, Anastasius I to Maurice, Vol. II:1, Phocas and Heraclius, Vol. II:2, Heraclius Constantine to Theodosius III, Vol. III:1, Leo III to Michael III, and Vol. III:2, Basil I to Nicephorus III, with Hendy extending the monetary history from 1081 to 1261, so that the principal Byzantine series stands together on the shelf in one substantial working group. Extremely rare to find all six volumes offered together as a complete set, and especially desirable in this form for the collector, researcher, or specialist library. Each volume bears David Allen?s personal library stamp. Covers with light wear and shelf dust, spine fading, showing age and use; overall the set is in VG condition. From the personal reference library of David Allen, a well known numismatist, formed over more than 50 years and used as a long term reference for research, attribution, and catalogue work.

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