[NAVY]. Instructions for the Knight Officers of the Ships, recorded in the Book of Councils on 25 September 1777. Malta: Mallia, 1778. Rare work, unrecorded at auction (RBH), outlining the rules and duties that each officer of the Order of Malta was to observe in military service, both in wartime and in peace. An insightful account of the military organisation of the Order's fleet. 8vo (170 x 100mm). 62 pages, woodcut vignette to title-page. Contemporary patterned paper boards. (1)