Quarto, very handsome later three-quarter blue morocco with gilt ship devices in compartments. Uncut. Title with uncoloured vignette indicates an early edition, 55 SUPERB HAND COLOURED AQUATINT PLATES, and two plans on one sheet. Dedication, introduction, list of plates, and text. Wanting a subscribers list and two portraits as usual. One plate repaired, the occasional spot, but for the repair, a good copy. Title and one plate watermarked Whatman 1825, thus indicating an early, albeit not first, issue of this standard colour plate book. Gilt in rule to boards. Raised gilt bands and lettering to the spine. Blue cloth endpapers, top edge gilt. MS signature and date to title page. Plates include the Danish Fleet at Copenhagen, Battles of the Nile, and Trafalgar, among other memorable sea battles. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontis. View of Gibraltar. 2. Capture of La Cleopatre, June 18th, 1793. 3. Capture of La Reunion - Oct 21st, 1793. 4. Destruction of the French Fleet at Toulon, Dec 18th, 1793. 5. Capture of La Pomone, L'Engageante, & La Babet, April 23rd, 1794. 6. Capture of the Castor, May 29th, 1794. 7. Lord Howe in the Queen Charlotte, breaking the Enemy's Line - May 29th, 1794. 8. Lord Howe's Victory, June 1st, 1794. 9. Capture of La Pique - Jan 5th, 1795. 10. Lord Hotham's Action, March 14th, 1795. 11. Capture of La Gloire, April 10th, 1795. 12. Capture of La Prevoyante and La Raison, May 17th 1795. 13. Lord Bridport's Action off Port L'Orient, June 23rd, 1795. 14. Capture of La Minerve, June 24th, 1795. 15. Capture of the Mahonesa, Oct 13th, 1796. 16. Capture of La Proserpine - June 13th, 1796. 17. Capture of La Tribune - June 8th, 1796. 18. Capture of Le Desius, Nov 25th, 1796. 19. Battle off Cape St. Vincent, Feb 14th, 1797. 20. Capture of L'Hercule, April 20th, 1797. 21. Action off Camperdown, Oct 11th, 1797. 22. Capture of La Nereide, Dec 21st, 1797. 23. Capture of La Confiante - May 31st, 1798. 24. Capture of the Dorothea, July 15th, 1798. 25. Capture of Liguria, Aug 7th, 1798. 26. Battle of the Nile, Aug 1st, 1798. Plate 1. 27. Battle of the Nile, Aug 1st, 1798. Plate 2. 28. Capture of La Loire, Oct 18th, 1798. 29. Capture of L'Immortalite, Oct 20th, 1798. 30. Capture of the Furie and Waakzamheid, Oct 23rd, 1798. 31. Capture of La Forte, Feb 28, 1799. 32. Capture of La Vestale, Aug 20th, 1799. 33. Cutting out the Hermione from the Harbour of Porto Cavallo, Oct 26th, 1799. 34. Capture of La Desiree - July 7th, 1800. 35. Capture of La Vengeance - Aug 21st, 1800. 36. Destruction of the Danish Fleet before Copenhagen, April 2nd, 1801. Plate 1. 37. Destruction of the Danish Fleet before Copenhagen, April 2nd, 1801. Plate 2. 38. Battle off Cabareta Point - July 12th, 1801. 39. Capture of La Chiffonne, Aug 19th, 1801. 40. Capture & Destruction of Four Spanish Frigates, Oct 5th, 1804. 41. Sir Robert Calder's Action, July 22nd, 1805. 42. Commencement of the Battle of Trafalgar, Oct 21st, 1805. Plate 1. 43. Battle of Trafalgar - Oct 21st, 1805. Plate 1. 44. Battle of Trafalgar - Oct 21st, 1805. Plate 2. 45. Sir Richard Strachan's Action, Nov 4th, 1805. 46. Sir J.T. Duckworth's Action off St. Domingo, Feb 6th, 1806. 47. Capture of Maria Riggersbergen, Oct 18th, 1806. 48. Capture of the Badere Zaffer, July 6th, 1808. 49. Destruction of the French Fleet in Basque Roads - April 12th, 1809. 50. Capture of Le Sparviere, May 3rd, 1810. 51. Capture of the Island of Banda, Aug 9th, 1810. 52. Capture of the Chesapeake, June 1st, 1813. 53. Capture of the Argus, Aug 14th, 1813. 54. Capture of La Clorinde, Feb 26th, 1814. 55. Bombardment of Algiers, Aug 27th, 1816.