Quarto. [6], xxxii, 292pp. With two fine naval vignettes, to first and final leaves. Contemporary gilt-tooled calf, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. Rubbed, with some marking, bumping to corners, loss to head and foot of spine, cracking to lower joint. Captain Thomas Peyton's copy, with his inscription (dated 1790) to head of blank fly-leaf at front; ink offsetting evidencing the removal of the FFEP (showing the mirror image of a further ink inscription).

A pleasing association copy of an uncommon mid eighteenth-century collection of treaties relating to the naval, shipping and commercial interests of Britain and other powers: Algiers, Austrian Netherlands, Denmark, France, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, Savoy, Spain, States General, Sweden, Tripoli, Tunis and Turky (sic), inscribed by Captain Thomas Peyton (1757-1801) in the year of his posting to the rank of Captain. The Peytons were an illustrious naval family; Thomas was the youngest son of Admiral Joseph Peyton, and his brothers Joseph and John were both to become Rear-Admirals. Thomas served in the Mediterranean, the West Indies and the Channel during the navaly tumultuous final decade of the eighteenth-century; he died on board the Monarch, a 74-gun ship of the line, in 1801.

Included, most significantly for the development of transatlantic military and economic power, are the American Treaty (1686) with France, the Treaty of Munster (1648) and American Treaty (1670) with Spain, and the Utrecht Treaties of both Peace and Commerce (1713).