Connecticut. General Assembly

At a General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New-England in America, holden at Hartford, in said Colony, on the Second Thursday of May ... 1775. An Act for regulating and ordering the Troops that are, or may be raised, for the Defence of this Colony. [New London: Timothy Green for the General Assembly, 1775]

8vo in half-sheets (7 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.; 190 x 134 mm, uncut). Caption title; first page lightly browned, some marginal spotting. Stab-sewn as issued; sewing loose. Half-morocco folding-case, gilt-stamped imprint on upper cover and title on spine.

James S. Copley Library (sale, Sotheby's New York, 15 October 2010, lot 574)

Evans 13874

A fine, uncut copy of a rare Connecticut militia pamphlet, adopting fifty-three rules and regulations for the conduct of her colonial troops, taken virtually without amendment from the militia articles enacted by Massachusetts six weeks earlier (see lot 110). Connecticut's legislators were spurred to action by the imposition of unconstitutional taxes and duties, by the closing of the Port of Boston, and, especially, by the sight of "military Preparations against them" and their uncertainty of "how soon Parliamentary and Ministerial Vengeance may be directed against them ... as it is now against the Province of Massachusetts-Bay, who are suffering in the common Cause of British America."