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Relation de l'Inauguration solemnelle de Sa Sacrée Majeste Leopold II ... comme Comte de Flandres, celébrée à Gand, ville capitale de la province, le VI. juillet 1791 Gand Adrien Colier 1792 In-folio (45,3 x 28 cm), 47 pp, title in red and black, each page in a frame. Contemporary armorial binding, full speckled calf, coat of arms with crowned Leo Belgicus gilt in the center of the boards. (dull corners with spidering, soiled endpapers with traces of a bookplate). 2 plates are enclosed: Vertrek en Defilé van de koetsen in de marche en cortege van de Inauguratie van [...] den Keyzer en Koning als Graeve van Vlaenderen, gecelebreerd den 31 july 1781. Gend, Judocus Begyn, 1781, broadside. Ref. Vanderhaegen 5328 + List formed by the Council of Flanders [...] to attend the Inauguration of H.M. [...] the Count of Flanders, to be celebrated on 31 July 1781. Ghent, Pierre de Goesin, 1781, [4] ff. in-folio. Ref. not in Vanderhaegen First edition of the Ghent Joyeuse-Entrée of the brother and successor of Joseph II, who was represented by Prince Albert of Saxony on the day of the ceremony. He died suddenly on March 1, 1792. One of the few works by Colier. Ref. Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 287; Vanderhaeghen bib. gantoise 6269