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Title: The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Guillaume de Laubier, Jacques Bosser, James H. Billington, Laurel Hirsch (translator) ISBN: 0-8109-4634-3 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Treasure for Bibliophiles and Architecture Lovers
Comment: This beautifully photographed book might appear, at first glance, as another "coffee-table book": that is, a book someone gives you as a gift, which thereafter sits on your coffee table unread. That hasn't been my experience. Since receiving it as a Christmas present from my wife, I find myself picking it up every few weeks, reading about how famous book collections were formed, and gazing at the stunning architecture of libraries built as temples to literature (rather than on the how-many-shelves-can-we-cram-into-this-square-footage principle).
There are university libraries (e.g., Oxford, Trinity College Dublin), royal libraries (Vienna, Prague), religious libraries (The Vatican, and several monasteries), and more democratic ones (The New York Public Library). Most of the libraries are European, except for three: New York, The Library of Congress (which is featured on the cover), and the Boston Athenaeum.
There could be more in the text about the contents of these libraries; the emphasis is more on the sheer physical beauty of these places. And beautiful they are, some of them decorated by leading artists.
Some of these libraries are easy to visit; some are accessible only to scholars with appropriate references. Some, like the library of the French Senate (a serene retreat overlooking the Jardin du Luxembourg), are available to a select few. This delightful volume lets us in, for a while. Enjoy.
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Title: A Splendor of Letters : The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World by Nicholas A. Basbanes ISBN: 0060082879 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles ISBN: 0393020290 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Great Libraries: From Antiquity to the Renaissance (3000 B.C. to A.D.1600) by Konstantinos Sp. Staikos ISBN: 1584560185 Publisher: Oak Knoll Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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Title: At Home with Books : How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries by ESTELLE ELLIS, CHRISTOPHER SIMON SYKES, CAROLINE SEEBOHM ISBN: 0517595001 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 31 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Memory of Mankind: The Story of Libraries Since the Dawn of History by Don Heinrich Tolzmann, Alfred Hessel, Reuben Peiss ISBN: 1584560495 Publisher: Oak Knoll Books Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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