FINE BINDINGS / ROYAL BELGIAN PROVENANCE: Hulde aen zyne koninklyke hoogheid den Hertog Van Braband, kroonprins der Belgen, ter gelegenheid zyns achttienden verjaerdags. 9 April 1853

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FINE BINDINGS / ROYAL BELGIAN PROVENANCE: Hulde aen zyne koninklyke hoogheid den Hertog Van Braband, kroonprins der Belgen, ter gelegenheid zyns achttienden verjaerdags. 9 April 1853

2,500.00€

 

[A Tribute to His Royal Highness the Duke of Braband, Crown Prince of the Belgians, at the Occasion of his Eighteenth Birthday. Apr 9, 1853]

 

An ode in honour of the Duke of Brabant, the future Leopold II of Belgium, written for his 18th birthday. An example with a stunning watered-silk binding from the king’s personal library.

 

Large 4°, [12 pp.], contemporary blue moiré binding with gilt tooling and colour applications, white moiré endpapers (Very Good,clean example with a tiny chip to one of the ornaments on the rear cover).

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An ode in honour of the Duke of Brabant, the later king of Belgium, Leopold II, was printed in a limited edition for the duke’s 18th birthday. This example, bound in a striking blue watered-silk binding, signed by Mertens, was presented to the 18 year old Leopold himself and was later kept in the king’s private library.

The author of the ode in Eugène Stroobant (1819-1889), a Belgian politician and writer, active in Flemish literary, theatrical and cultural circles in Brussels. He became one of the first members of the Royal Flemish Academy of Language and Literature, founded in 1886.

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