‎SPLENDID CEREMONIES GHENDT GENT 1791 - Emperor Leopold II of Habsburg :‎
‎"Relation de l'inauguration solemnelle de sa sacrée Majesté Léopold II , Empereur des Romains, Roi d'Allemagne, de Hongrie et de Bohème; &c. &c. comme Comte de Flandres, celebrée à GAND Ville Capitale de la Province, le VI Juillet 1791."‎

‎15. Gand (Gent) , Chez Adrien Colier, rue de Bruges N° 95, Imprimeur des Etats de Flandre, 1792, in-folio, 46 x 28 cm, 47 pp ( title printed in two colours with a wood engraved coat of arms) + (1)nn pp (blank). Complete. Landwehr N° 287. Only edition of this book, bound in contemporary full calf, with large gilt supra libro on both covers - arms of the county of Flanders , raised gilt spine, binding a bit worn at extremities, upper joint split but still holding. Interior fine. This book is the very last publication in a long series, spanning 275 years. It relates the splendid ceremony which was organised upon the investiture of the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire Leopold II of Habsburg-Lotheringen as count of Flanders in Ghendt. Barely 7 months after this inauguration the emperor was death and the French revolutionary armies were to invade the country at the end of the year ( November 1792). It marks the end of a series of publications on these ceremonies which started in 1515. Landwehr, in his bibliography '' Splendid Ceremonies...'' lists 288 similar publications.‎

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