VISITORS´ BOOK: The folio hardback leather bound Visitors´ Book of the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company (BTMC) in Antwerp, created in April 1956 and known within the company as the Golden Book, recording the visits of many different individuals to the BTMC headquarters, including royalty, heads of state, politicians, diplomats and other dignitaries, containing hundreds of signatures including (in order of appearance) Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma (1889-1977) Head of the ducal house of Bourbon-Parma, the Carlist pretender to the throne of Spain, and his daughter Princess Marie Thérèse of Bourbon-Parma (1933-2020) French-Spanish political activist and academic, the first royal known to have died of Covid-19, Prince Fahd bin Faisal bin Farhan (Mayor of Riyadh, December 1958), Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919-1980) Shah of the Imperial State of Iran 1941-79, Baudouin of Belgium (1930-1993) King of the Belgians 1951-93, Mwambutsa IV Bangiricenge (1912-1977) King of Burundi 1915-66, Douglas MacArthur II (1909-1997) American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Belgium 1961-65, K. B. Lall (1917-2005) Indian civil servant who served as the Defence Secretary of India during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 and was previously commerce secretary as well as ambassador to the European Common Market, Fuad Nazir (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (1930-1997) Mobutu Sese Seko, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1965-71 and President of Zaire 1971-97, Jules Victor Daem (Bishop of Antwerp 1962-77), Satya Narayan Sinha (1900-1983) Indian National Congress politician who served as Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Communications 1964-67), Ridgway B. Knight (1911-2001) French-born American diplomat who served as Ambassador to Belgium 1965-69, Bertin Mwamba (1932- ) Congolese politician who served as Minister for the Post Office, Telegraphs and Telecommunications 1965-66, Eugenio Méndez Docurro (1923-2015) Mexican engineer and politician, Tan Siew Sin (1916-1988) Malaysian politician who served as Minister of Commerce and Industry, and as Minister of Finance 1959-74, Willy De Clercq (1927-2011) Belgian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister, Théo Lefèvre (1914-1973) Belgian politician and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Belgium 1961-65, General Armando Artola Azcárate (Peruvian Minister of the Interior), Edmond Leburton (1915-1997) Belgian politician who served as Prime Minister of Belgium 1973-74, Ernesto Montagne Sánchez (1916-1993) Peruvian politician who served as Prime Minister of Peru 1968-73, André Cools (1927-1991) Belgian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium 1969-73, Josip Broz Tito 1892-1980) Yugoslav communist revolutionary who served as President of Yugoslavia 1953-80 and as Prime Minister 1944-63, and his fourth wife Jovanka Broz (1924-2013) First Lady of Yugoslavia 1952-80, Albert II of Belgium (1934- ) King of the Belgians 1993-2013, Stane Kavcic (1919-1987) Slovenian communist politician, Shimon Peres (1923-2016) Israeli politician who served as Prime Minister of Israel 1984-86, 1995-96 and as President of Israel 2007-14. Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1994, Robert Strausz-Hupé (1903-2002) Austrian-born American diplomat and geopolitical theorist, Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989) Romanian politician who was the second and last communist leader of Romania serving as General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party 1965-89, and as President of the Socialist Republic of Romania 1974-89, and his wife Elena Ceausescu (1916-1989) Romanian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Romania 1980-89, Pekka Tarjanne (1937-2010) Finnish politician and scientist, Herman Liebaers (1919-2010) Belgian linguist, director general of the central Belgian Royal Library and and Marshal of the Royal Household of the Royal Court of Belgium, Anne Cox Chambers (1919-2020) American media proprietor, diplomat, and philanthropist who served as United States Ambassador to Belgium 1977-81, Antonio Enrique Lussón Batlle (1930-2022) Cuban military officer and one of four Vice Presidents of the Council of Ministers, Moktar Ould Daddah (1924-2003) Mauritanian politician who served as the country's first President 1960-78, after it gained its independence from France, and previously served as the first Prime Minister 1957-61, C. M. Stephen (1918-1984) Indian politician who served as the Union Minister of Communications of India 1980-82, Duck-woo Nam (1924-2013) South Korean politician who served as Prime Minister of South Korea 1980-82, Prince Michael of Kent (1942- ) British Prince, a second cousin of King Charles III, Nicolae Giosan (1921-1990) Romanian agricultural engineer and communist politician, and many others. Many of the pages are multiple signed and the vast majority have highly attractive original hand-painted watercolour or pen and ink designs and calligraphic text. Handsomely bound with six raised bands to the spine and marbled endpapers. The spine is detached from the binding, otherwise VG