Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

The most beautiful libraries in the world, photographs by Guillaume de Laubier ; text by Jacques Bosser ; foreword by James H. Billington ; translated from the French by Laurel Hirsch

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 246)

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non fiction

The most beautiful libraries in the world

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photographs by Guillaume de Laubier ; text by Jacques Bosser ; foreword by James H. Billington ; translated from the French by Laurel Hirsch

Vienna, Austria, National Library of Austria -- Admont, Austria, The Benedictine Abbey Library of Admont -- Ulm, Germany, The Monastic Library at Wiblingen -- Metten, Germany, The Benedictine Abbey Library of Metten -- Weimar, Germany, The Herzogin Anna Amalia Library -- Rome, Italy, The Vatican Library -- Florence, Italy, Riccardiana Library -- Paris, France, The Mazarine Library -- Paris, France, The Institute Library -- Paris, France, The Senate Library -- Chantilly, France, The Cabinet des Livres of the Duc d'Aumale -- Saint Gall, Switzerland, The Abbey Library of Saint Gall -- Oxford, England, Bodleian Library -- Cambridge, England, Wren Library, Trinity College -- Manchester, England, The John Rylands Library -- Dublin, Ireland, Trinity College Library -- Prague, The Czech Republic, The National Library -- San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain, The Library of the Royal Monastery of El Escorial -- Mafra, Portugal, The National Palace Library in Mafra -- Boston, United States of America, Boston Athenæum -- Washington, D.C., United States of America, The Library of Congress -- New York, United States of America, The New York Public Library -- Saint Petersburg, Russia, The National Library of Russia