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Show ' TREASURE OF BRITISH MUSEUM. k , Ulaa Centuries Old Probably Large 'ook In World. Dlgecr than any othor book In th world that Is, bigger In height nnc! iroadth -Is a curiously tinlnuo ntlns n tho Ilrltlsh museum. It contains n ! :olloctlon of tho finest engraved Dutch mnps of tho Stuart period, and '8 hound In red leather, beautifully 1 jrnnmentod with gold designs, nnd Is tecured by three mnsslvo gilt clasps. This mighty volumo measures five , 'cet ten Inches hlph. nnd Is propor lonalely broad, being nearly square The dedhatlon page Is band diawn nd richly lllutnlnnted. It wns pre entrd to King Charles II. Immediate y before ho left HollnrrJ on his res-:orntlon res-:orntlon to the thrnno In 1CR0. The jnly known con-em- orary reference 'jo this vo'ume Is given by John Rvcljn In bis diary, undor dntu 1CC0. 'November 1 I went with some of my rotations to court," says John Kvelyn 'to show them his mnjestv's cabinet nd closet of vnrletlcs. Thoro I saw i vast book of mapps In n volume upero four yards large," Tho hook tamo Into tho possession of the nation when King (Jeorgo III, bequeathed his '.Ihrary to tho Itrltlsli museum. Here '.ho great book la most tenderly guard sd, for it Is accounted one of tho II-I II-I brnry's chief treasures |