KERVYN DE LETTENHOVE le Baron Henry - Baron A. van ZUYLEN van NYEVELT - Julien De CLERCQ ( photographer ) :
Reference : 43133
3. Bruges ( Brugge ) , Imprimerie M. Herreboudt, 1908, in-folio, oblong format , 24 x 37 cm, coloured frontispice (by Flor. Van Acker) + title + 62 plates each with several pictures and text, the plates printed on recto side only, each separated by a serpente leaf. Bound in green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering. Binding with some wear, especially at the lower corners, Gilt lettering partially faded, binding a bit loose. Some of the serpente leaves torn and soiled. In all however still an acceptable copy. Rare pageant album with a rich photographic iconography on the opening of the port of Zeebrugge, the 1907 Exhibition of the Golden Fleece ( La Toison d'Or ) , a yachting regatta, visit of king Leopold II with his soon te be successor Albert and his wife Elisabeth. The pageant ''L'Arbre d'Or '' or Guldenboomstoet ( Golden Tree ). ...Text in French.