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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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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

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