Three books on the Joyous Entries of the Counts of Flanders in Ghent , 18th C.

(1) Relation de l’inauguration solemnelle de sa sacrée majesté Marie Thérèse [...] comme comtesse de Flandres, célébrée à Gand, [...], le XXVII. Avril 1744, Ghent, Widow P. de Goesin, 1744.

Folio.

Report of the inauguration of Maria Theresia as countess of Flanders in Ghent. Illustrated with an engraved frontispice depicting Maria Theresia by the Ghent artist Frans Pilsen after the painting of Philips Charles Marissal, the later founder of the Ghent art academy and with an impressive folding plate by the same Pilsen showing a general view of the ceremony conducted on an elaborate stage built at the Vrijdagmarkt by the Ghent architect David 't Kindt.

(2) Relation de l’inauguration solemnelle de sa sacrée majesté [...] Charles VI. [...] comme comte de Flandres, célébrée à Gand [...], le XVIII. Octobre 1717, Ghent, Augustin Graet, 1719.

Folio.

Memorial fête book illustrating the inauguration in Ghent of Charles VI as Count of Flanders in 1717. The plates nicely illustrate the festivities, culminating in the firworks in the surroundings of the Ghent town hall.

(3) Relation de l'inauguration solemnelle de sa sacrée majesté Léopold II [...]comme comte de Flandres, célébrée à Gand [...], le VI Juillet 1791, Ghent, Adrien Colier, 1792.

Folio.