Two major treaties relating to the political and economical relations between Great Britain and the Low Countries.

1. Articles of peace, union and confederation, concluded and agreed between [...] Oliver Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth [...] and the Lords of the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, in a treaty at Westminster bearing date the fift of April [...] 1654. London, W. du-Gard & H. Hills, 1654. Folio: pp. (289)-312 (toned). Disbound. The treaty ended the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654). It is notable because it is one of the first treaties implementing international arbitration as a method of conflict resolution in early modern times. A secret clause, obliging the States of Holland to enact the Act of Seclusion, played an important part in Dutch internal politics during the First Stadtholderless Period. Printed in Gothic type. Ref. ESTC R21538. - Wing C-7040.
2. Treaty of navigation and commerce between [...] Anne [...], Queen of Great Britain [...] and [...] Philip the Vth, the Catholick King of Spain, concluded at Utrecht the 28/9 Day of November/December 1713. London, J. Roberts, 1738. 8vo: pp. 64, *61-*64, 65-86 (minor soiling). Disbound. Good uncut copy. One of a series of peace treaties signed by the belligerents in the War of the Spanish Succession, in the Dutch city of Utrecht between April 1713 and February 1715. "That Treaty, which ushered in the stable and characteristic period of Eighteenth-Century civilization, marked the end of danger to Europe from the old French monarchy, and it marked a change of no less significance to the world at large, - the maritime, commercial and financial supremacy of Great Britain" (Trevelyan). Ref. ESTC T96539.