Bernadotte Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden

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This is the third of 3 posts on beautiful libraries. This post contains the following countries: Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA and Wales.

Bernadotte Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Riksdagen Library, Swedish Parliament Library, Stockholm, Sweden

Beatus Rhenanus Library, Basel, Switzerland

Abbey Library, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Chetham’s Library, Manchester, UK

George Vanderbilt’s Biltmore House Library, Asheville, USA

George Peabody Library, Baltimore, USA

North Reading Room, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

Boston Athenæum, Boston, USA

Boston Copley Public Library, Boston, USA

Widener Library, Harvard, Cambridge, USA

Harper Library, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Old Chicago Public Library (Current Cultural Center), Chicago, USA

Law Library, Iowa State Legislature, Des Moines, USA

Riggs Library, Georgetown University, USA

Cornell Law School Library, Ithaca, USA

Kansas City Public Library, Missouri, USA

Amelia S. Givin Library, Mount Holly Springs, USA

Jay Walker’s Private Library, New England, USA

Sterling Memorial Library Yale, New Haven, USA

Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, USA

New York City Public Library, New York, USA

The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Northeast Vermont, USA

Pierpont Morgan Library, NY, USA

The Grolier Club Library, NY, USA

Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA

Thomas Crane Library, Quincy, USA

Central Library, Seattle, USA

Suzzallo Library, Seattle, USA

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, USA

Library of Congress, Washington, USA

University of Michigan (Old) Law Library, Ann Arbor, USA

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales

I want to thank the following sites for all the pictures that I have used in the last 3 posts :

www.myopera.com
www.kuhf.org
www.stopin-praha.cz
www.flickr.com
www.wikimedia.org
www.curiousexpeditions.org
www.chicagobooth.edu
www.wired.com
www.esquire.com
wiz2.cath.vt.edu

This is the first of 3 posts on beautiful libraries. I’ve sorted [...]]]>

I like books. I like to be surrounded by books and I like places that have lots of books.

This is the first of 3 posts on beautiful libraries. I’ve sorted them by country. This first post contains the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Finland and France.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Ateneo Buenos, Aires, Argentina

State Library, Victoria, Australia

Library of the Benedictine Monastery of Admont,  Admont, Austria

Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Kremsmuenster Abbey Library, Kremsmu?nster, Austria

Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria

St. Florian Monastery-Library, St. Florian, Austria

Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp, Belgium

Bibliothe?que Solvay, Brussels, Belgium

Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Library of Parliament, Ottawa, Canada

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Toronto, Canada

The Central Public Library in Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada

Klementium Library, Prague, Czech Republic

Strahov Monastery – Theological Library, Prague, Czech Republic

Strahov Philosophical Hall, Prague, Czech Republic

Strahov Theological Hall, Prague, Czech Republic

The Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov, Prague, Czech Republic

Strahovská knihovna, Praha, Czech Republic

Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, England

Hereford Cathedral Chained Library (Rare books were once kept chained to the bookshelf to prevent stealing.), Hereford, England

British Library, London, England

National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Old British Reading Room British Museum, London, England

John Rylands Library, Manchester, England

Chetham’s Library, Manchester, England

Theology Room at St. Deiniol’s library, North Wales, England

Codrington Library All Souls College, Oxford, England

Queen’s College Library, Oxford, England

Duke of Humphrey’s Library, Bodleian, Oxford University, England

University-Library, Helsinki, Finland

Bibliotheque Alencon, Normandy, France

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France

Sorbonne Library, Paris, France