A beautifully executed manuscript diploma for Duke of Brabant, the future Belgian king Leopold II, the honorary president of the Philharmonic Society of Wavre, Belgium.

Small Folio (35,7 x 22,6 cm), [8 pp.] blank, 2 pages with manuscript recto, blank, contemporary red hard-grained morocco with gold and blind tooling and lettering, gilt floral turn-ins, gilt edges, white moiré paper end-papers, white moiré paper pastedowns with gold tooling, red silk bookmark, inserted in contemporary moiré card box (box with minor staining and a tiny crack in the upper right corner, hardly noticeable lines on the front cover, otherwise in a crisp and clean condition).