Two books on the Joyous Entry of the Countess of Flanders in Ghent (1744) and the archaeological past of Flanders (1808)

(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: front.- 43 pp., 2 pl. (incl. front.). Paper covers, flat spine.

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) Martin-Jean de Bast (1753-1825): 'Recueil d'antiquités romaines et gauloises, trouvées dans la Flandre proprement dite, avec désignation des lieux où elles ont été découvertes', Ghent, A.B. Steven, 1808.

4to: [Title]-lxxx-590-[1] pp., 20 pl. Paper on cardb. covers, spine with 5 raised bands. 

Engravings by the famous gold and silversmith Pierre Joseph Jacques Tiberghien, 1755-1810 (link).