Show RARE RARE AMERICAN BOOK BOOKS S SHOWN AT SAN MARINO SAN MARINO Cal Cat U UP One Uli-One o One e. e of oC rarest books a with AmerIca Is now now floW bri on exhibit at th the Henry E E. Huntington n library a. a and d art gallery here herci The Tho b bOOk k Isa copy of oC the Massar MOssa- laws of ot 1648 the first collection cot col col- col led IOn of ot l laws ws In this country countr When hell tho the first press was brought co country and set sel up In Boston Boston Bos Bas ton ton th the g vernor of oC the colony of Massachusetts Massachusetts' bay ordered that copies of the laws V In book form In 1sT tha the course of ot time Um every ery book ook disappeared and ti a dm diligent enl search by scholars and collectors tors tois proved futile In the present copy was I In a library in England passed Into tho the collection ot of E. E DwIght Church Ch noted rioted American col 01 lector Henry Huntington later par pur purchased c chased aBed Churchs Church's library and In In th that t manner came Into possession of of the thi book boo N No other othel copy ot of the the book lia has been found thus far for f. f I |